... and another one

hi carla,

i'm a nurse too, NICU.
i'm sorry you're dealing with these nasty boys.
stick with us. we understand and are here to support you.

I tend to think the stress level involved. Spent the last five years of my career working in a lock-down psych unit...used to tell the husband-person that I thought the stress-level was damaging my health...now I truly believe it did...

What field (of nursing) were you in?

C

How odd...what field?

C

Welcome to NT! Jim has ms and calls his legs Fred and Barney. LOL

carla,

yikes, a psych unit.
when i was a wee nursing student i drew a locked male ward for my psych rotation. i was so naive and innocent. and i did well in psych theory. my minor in my BSN program was psych. but that assignment.....never again.

so i landed taking care of babies. they couldn't yell curses a me i guess.
but they did control things in other ways. babies know how to get our attention.

Nice to meet you...and your husband-person

Ya gotta laugh (Fred and Bob) (Fred and Barney) because if you didn't you'd just cry...

and that doesn't do anybody any good.

C

Did a rotation when I was a wee nursing student through the Children's Pavillion at Methodist Hospital...OMG...too sad for words. Not for me. Yeah...after my Dad died I thought psych would be a different direction (Did Geriatrics-then Med Surg Unit...then had an Alzheimer's Unit for 3 years...) When I first started Psych I thought that I had made a serious career mistake...but like anything else...you give it 100% (and more) and after a year or so it became another challenge...but the stress load was...well...too much.

Nicu must be very rewarding.

I think (besides being assaulted physically, cursed, spit on, et al) on a regular basis...there was the underlying knowledge that a great many of our "patients" actively did not want to get better...refused medications because they made them feel strange (normal). Frustrating. A bad segment with cutters/schizophrenics/bi-polar/suicidal/homicidal...et al

C