Confessions of a Psych Nurse, Nursetogether.com

By: Angela Brooks

A Nurse Confesses:  There is no way to work on a psych ward of a mental hospital and not learn something about life; I have met some of the strangest and most original individuals.  When people find out where I work, and have worked for almost 22 years, their mouths hangs open in awe.  Most of the time the phrase, "I don't know how you do it" is mentioned, as they shake their heads.

 

I confess there are things about working in a mental health institution that I do not like, and there are times when I have to bite my tongue and keep my lips glued together because I become so agitated.  I thought I would list for you my dislikes and explain later what I have learned.  Deep breath…here I go.

 

I dislike when someone comes into the hospital just so they can get a check (aka crazy check) when they are clearly healthy but truly too damn lazy to work.

 

I dislike when someone is purely and simply mean spirited and uses their diagnosis of being mentally ill as an excuse to cling to.

 

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A nurse is a nurse is a nurse, right? Wrong. Nursing jobs are extraordinarily varied and diverse. Here’s a snapshot of four specialized nursing niches that even healthcare professionals may know little about.

Correctional Nursing

Nurses who work behind bars with the nation’s 2 million inmates and juvenile offenders deal with a range of medical problems, from toothaches to trauma. “A lot of our clients don’t have access to healthcare easily,” says Gayle Burrow, MPH, BSN, director of corrections health for the Multnomah County Health Department in Portland, Oregon. “Correctional nurses like the fact that we get to take care of people who need a lot of services and education.”

Because correctional nurses work autonomously – assessing new inmates, helping manage the chronic diseases and mental illnesses of long-term prisoners and responding to acute illnesses and injuries – they must be confident, mature and well-rounded. In addition, they “must have the ability to look at a person not by what they do, but for who they are,” says Burrow, a certified corrections health professional who is on the board of the American Correctional Health Services Association.

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