Lady LaurelIe
Hmm, okay ... how did the nurses treat you during your stay? I know in mental health you want to form that therapeutic relationship with the patient while maintaining boundaries.
I, too, have a few difficulties finding the words (or heart) to explain to a patient I have other nursing responsibilities to take care of -- if that makes sense.
Sometimes it's better to work your way into it ... just don't stop if you want to go further. Imagine yourself at that finish line and keep chugging along. Nursing school ain't easy. I'll say, my LVN graduation felt like nothing compared to my RN graduation. The RN one actually felt like I had reached the end (despite the need to acquire a BSN on top of the RN). :]
If you still consider nursing in the future, what area could you see yourself in?
In the psych hospital I only trusted the male staff members. All the nurses except one are female though. There was one female nurse I liked a lot but she only worked on-call so I hardly saw her. She's the most patient, probably because of not being there all the time. One nurse yelled at me, she also held a grudge against me. I had a dissociative episode and when I came out of it she wasn't nice about it. I said hi to her as I walked by and she responded with "well at least now you acknowledge me". I tried to apologize but wasn't sure what I was apologizing for, she put her hand up and told me to not even go there. I asked her what happened and she insisted that I knew what happened. That was my last hospitalization there, it's been two years I just hope she's not there anymore, but I'm sure she is. Another good nurse though there is really kind, she doesn't have a lot of time since she's the charge nurse usually when she's there. But when I'm not doing good she lets me sit in the hall where she can keep an eye on me. She's really kind. The other nurses make me go sit in my room or the I forget what that other room is called. It's where all the patients on the locked down side go to, there's a tv in there and is where we eat. I'm always in the locked down side because of my dissociation, or in isolation. By the end of my stay they move me over to the bigger side and that kinda sets me off again because I hate change. The staff also makes up things on their notes for me, they say we have conversations that never exist. Once they said I threatened to kill myself with a plastic knife, and no that's not what I was doing. I was trying to self-harm but not kill myself, there's a difference people! So most of my stays have been very unhelpful and more frustrating than anything.
RN is more intense. You basically have the same knowledge as a doctor by the end, just not as much schooling.
hmm I'm not sure what I'd like to do in Nursing. I want to be somewhere that I'd make a difference, but at the same time I don't want to be in some place where it needs so much work that I just burn out. I wouldn't mind working in a clinic, but I don't want to be a glorified secretary either. Hmmm
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