Ask a male psychiatric nurse anything...
I look after retards and failures edition.
>>27315497
Are there more guys or girls in psychiatric wards?
Currently in nursing school, considering going as far as becoming a psych APRN. What's a typical day at work like for you?
why do nurses just sit behind the counter taking notes all the time? what are yall recording?
>>27315497
Is it ultimately better to work in the field or to work as a lecturer about the field?
>>27315497
Do you hide when you're walking down the hallway and smell bantha doodoo?
Does your worse work experiences sometimes get to you, or can you shrug it off?
>>27315512
Tends to be more girls, but that's just going on recent observations.
>tfw nursing student
>feel emotional after clients tell me their sad life stories
>end up crying during sessions
What do I do? If a patient mentions that their son won't visit, they're a widower and they're on the do not resuscitate list I just fucking break down. How do I stop the feels? Seriously affects my work.
Please answer my question.
>>27315517
A lot of small talk. Endless small talk. Also lots of admin work (arranging appointments and meetings) oh And occasionally someone tells you theyve always dreamed of fucking a baby.
>>27315521
I know its shit but we have to on account of the law and accountability.
>>27315588
Sounds like you have some counter transference issues. Probably an emotionally unstable wreck yourself.
Pro tip - avoid psychiatry.
>>27315567
The amount of contact with strangers and resultant formation of short term relationships is unnatural and overall detrimental to my previosuly idealistic view of humanity as a whole. We are just repetitive boring sacks of meat.
>>27315675
Can I fix it somehow with a psychiatrist or should I just give up. All fields of nursing are affected by this shit.
>>27315645
What kind of stuff do you write down?
>>27315618
Sounds like what I expected, thanks for the info.
Also, I'm currently just working on my ASN and will immediately start on my BSN upon graduating. Will the ASN greatly hinder my chances of getting a job while I'm still working towards the BSN, or is not as big of a deal as people believe?
such a fukin retarded thread.
We need another elliot or chris to strike down these normie scum.
write this down you fuckin faggot nurse
>>27315763
Basically we describe what we observe.
The theoretical foundation is called descriptive phenomenology with blends direct clinical observation ( ie poor eye contact, anxious, fast speech etc) with descriptive phenomenology from thee patient themselves ( such as ' I feel like shit')
>>27315836
No idea I'm from the UK.
>>27315864
Diagnosis - angry faggot with low self-awareness. Needs a hug.
>>27315948
ANSWER MY QUESTION
REEEE
I'M AN EMOTIONAL WRECK
Why do you honestly work as a psych nurse?
>>27315497
What's a psych nurse? What do you actually do?
>>27316013
No idea. Random choice. Regret it. People are awful.
You have to have some weird do gooder complex to do it because it is not rewrarding.
>>27316070
Assess, and treat the mentally ill. Restrain people off their tits on legal highs who want to bite your dick off.
>>27316156
ANSWER ME
WHAT DO I DO ABOUT COUNTER TRANSFERENCE
H E L P M E
>>27316156
Tell us some good stories from there anon
>>27315497
how much shame do you feel whenever you admit you're a male nurse?
do you have your way with female patients? even a sneaky grope?
>>27315497
I was a security guard for an ER that had 5 psyche wards, let me tell you some crazy shit its never boring, the rest of the robots should believe any of what you say is true is vouch for you hope ur not bsing
>>27315497
Restraining was fun as fuck sometimes others it was rather scary, benadryl, haldol and ativan B52 are great as long as fucking doctor gets his shit together
>>27315722
You will burn out. Not OP but please listen to me. Life is too short and terrible to not do something that makes you happy.
If the upside isn't balanced by the downside you need to do something else.
Personally, I got tired of the child rape victims.
Couldn't sleep anymore and starting drinking.
>>27315497
If I went in for an evaluation today and said I'm feeling suicidal, would I be put in some kind of ward, would I get some antidepressants, or both?
>>27316623
Thanks for the serious reply friend.
I'm not a specialized nurse yet, but even bedside nurses listen to the patients stories to assess. I grow more desensitized to patients' emotions. I really want to talk to someone who's in the same boat as me but I can't find anyone. Feels bad being the resident cry baby. I don't really want to do mental health anyway.
I'm considering seeing the school therapist or something. I really want to be a nurse but this is holding me back.
>>27316700
I meant to say
>I hope I grow desensitized
Literally the biggest hurdle for me.
>>27315497
hey im in med school. Does that mean I would be your boss when im done
>>27316700
You will become less empathic but you will never turn off your own emotions.
God forbid you internalize the garbage around you.
I have found myself doing some very strange things.
Honestly, I hire prostitutes to beat me and do other weird stuff to me just to tune myself back up for work.
I recommend finding another line of work.
>>27316761
graduated doctor here.
heads up: The nurse will be YOUR boss.
I have so much advice to give you, kid.
>>27315521
welcome to medicine in general in 2016
everybody does hours and hours of paperwork.
nurses, doctors, PT, OT, everyone.
>>27316782
Are you being serious anon? How many years have you been a nurse? Psychiatric?
>>27316807
in what way is an MD subject to an RN other than during internship year and the doctor is in baby mode and needs everyone to be his mommy because he doesn't know how to into writing up warfarin.
Does anyone want some cool tables
>>27316827
I'm not OP and I am not a nurse.
Yes, I am completely serious.
I used to cry a lot when I was alone and then I almost did the jump off a building move but now I'm sort of OK with it.
Just isn't the kind of life any normal person should have,
>>27316807
holy shit how? I can see it in residency, but after that?
I partly don't care even. it would be pretty cool not to have to organize were im supposed to be or when. Just let the nurses call me up or send patients to me.
These are very r9k related
>>27316885
What job did you have? Very worrying. I wish you the best.
I just want to help people. I don't care how much it tolls me, I'm a useless piece of shit anyway.
I gotta learn some of these
>>27316976
Are you 2nd year?
Serious question, how do you get help for someone having hallucinations and delusions when they don't want help? Is there really nothing that can be done?
>>27316887
i honestly don't know what that guy is referring to.
as a DIT you'll need to seek assistance from other specialities, including nursing, but you don't answer to RNs and you won't be coming to the RN as your first port of call.
in all the wards I've been on there's a intern, a registrar, and a consultant.
the learning process can be handled between the doctors on the wards themselves, but otherwise you can ask the RNs for assistance.
but in about 12 months you'll probably start eclipsing the RNs knowledge, and you'll need to do that less and less.
then it's just a typical professional relationship.
MD gives orders RN executes orders & provides feedback so MD can determine next course of action.
>>27315497
any of the crazy women there hot?
>>27316944
I won't tell you what I really do.
Nobody is really getting much help from people who can't take care of themselves.
The only way I take care of myself is actually getting dangerous so I will probably stop soon.
You should probably go look for different work.
Do some charity stuff if you feel needy of that 'helping people' feel.
>>27315722
This is why I left med school. I loved my work but man, if you can't stop caring it's pure hell. I had a vocation for it but I'm way too soft. I never cry at my own shit or my friends/families but a stranger dying or going through pain was agonising for me, I used to come home feeling helpless until I'd help someone and feel amazing again. Too intense.
>>27317016
neat
and were do the physician assistants fall into play. From my poor understanding these people are likely really basic general practitioners. Do practices hire PAs to lower the cost of staff as compared to hiring another physician?
>>27317083
What do you do now?
I kind of like working with computers but I'm absolutely shit at math and really like nursing if only I wasn't so emotional..
>>27316988
3rd
Im at the english department in belgrade serbia. We have a 6 year program. Although im a US citizen so im planning on residency back home after I wright the usmle (step 1 in 2 years, step 2 the following year).
I'm shooting for internal medicine.
>>27317086
well I work in the commonwealth so we don't have PA really, I think they tried to bring them in but the colleges didn't get enough applicants.
we have NPs though.
they act as a secondary and handle less acute cases, and can generally be trusted to handle most mundane cases.
private practices I don't think really hire mid-levels, I cant really see why they would as practices are basically conglomerates of specialized MDs.
if you mean GP office yeah they can bring in NPs as a cheaper alternative to an MD.
and yeah NPs are way cheaper, don't get me wrong an NP in the right place can make 100-150k a year in AU which is good money, but doctors in the same position would be making 300-350k.
I've been in the psych ward twice. Fuck you nurses, you're all just power hungry assholes. You guys made me so fucking uncomfortable. I could see how you were treating everyone else, people who just happened to be black or female or otherwise didn't blindly accept your authority. You didn't hesitate to fuck them in the ass with your Xanny needles at the smallest disobedience. Yet, I was treated different, I was pampered with basic human decency and you gave me shit tons of snacks and you'd always stop what you were doing to do me favors. Could it be because I'm a white middle-class male who kept my mouth shut most of the time? Jokes on you though, I'm a worthless drug addict. I was the shittiest scum in the ward by far. I just came for the k-pins.
>>27315497
Did you have to remove your testicles before or after you had your medical practitioner license issued?
>>27317181
but I should add I guess I technically have heard of specialist surgeons hiring NPs to act as a support outside surgery; i.e. handle all followup with patients etc and also work as the first assistant during surgery.
>>27315497
How does having a mental illness such as schizophrenia make someone a failure?
>>27315497
What are your thoughts on the orderlies aka the wranglers
Just asking because I was an orderly for like 2 years and everytime one of the patients got uppity they called me in to protect the delicate little nurses
>>27317181
So you are in Australia?
>I look after retards and failures edition.
This is the person who would "look after" you if you ever end up in that place.
>>27317138
I'm a java developer for a telecommunications company, a lot of medicine drop out end up in engineering disciplines oddly enough. I took my BSc and did a two year part time masters in computer engineering while I worked in a bar. I always enjoyed math though, you don't have to love it but it makes it easier.
>>27316129
>this
In my experience (been to several psych wards yada yada) a lot of the workers have a do gooder "I want to help the world" attitude about them. Worse though are the (usually) new ones with hero complexes who get offended if they aren't treated like the saviour they see themselves as
>>27317254
yeah I'm in AU which follows the UK model of medicine.
e.g. interns/reg/consult as opposed to intern/resident/attending like in America.
>>27317237
I had a based one who would always chill and play pool with me, he would literally try to find me just just for that. I would bust out the choons and get a brew on for us both.
>>27317290
I would prefer that to the nasty fuckers though. Some nurses shouldn't even be in that job, they only make the patients worse.
>>27317297
Awsome stuff man, a friend of mine made it to australia and is loving it now in anasthesia.
Anyhow onto more personal matters:
I have a lot of autopsies this semester and am having trouble dealing with the gruesomeness. No fainting, nothing like that. It is just so disturbing. The bodies are fresh and wheeled in not 6 hours since death. Last friday i saw one women that had an abdominal aortic aneurysm I believe after 2 weeks of complaints of lower left sided back pain.
Im just curious how this kind of thing wasn't caught. I would imagine maybe a fluroscopy being used.
How do i handle the grossness
>>27317282
I was never good at math though, I'm talking ~70s in my final year. Only got an 80 in summer school which was much easier.
Thanks for the advice though. I really appreciate it.
>>27316782
>I hire prostitutes to beat me and do other weird stuff
Sir, I'm gonna need you to elaborate here.
>>27317384
Yea the bitter as fucking vinegar ones I imagine are formerly decent people who've been broken down by their massively stressful work environment and only stay because they lack other options
>that or they're just abusers who found an easy way to abuse
>>27317273
damn son
bloxdeblox
>>27317434
> abdominal aortic aneurysm
as morbid as it is that is some cool fucking medicine.
well I mean how do you intend for this kind of thing to be caught, if the pt has no family history of aneurysm/HD/HTN and has no otherwise prognostic pathology why exactly would a doctor order a CXR or echo.
shit man a lot of the time these things around found by accident when someone goes and gets CXR for something other than an aneurysm, and then they're like oh fuck look at that thing.
plus sometimes doctors just play fast and loose with shit, they'd rather play it by ear then put in the reference.
the grossness man I dunno it's all business for me I don't even process shit like grossness.
it's like people asking do you get a boner when you're examining young women and no because I'm doing my fucking job and there's nothing sexual about it.
just gotta compartmentalize that shit.
>>27315497
how did u feel after your thread on /b/ failed?
>>27317581
* referral
>>27317492
I have a couple beers and at about midnight I drive through the hood and pick up any ho I happen along. Usually I will have her do stuff right there in my car but sometimes we go to a motel room and I try to get them to either choke me out or slap me around spit on me.
Sometimes I ask them to punch me a bit in the stomach.
I always feel better after and I go back to work and look at all the people around me and know that they have absolutely no idea how fucked in the head I am. I have hired two at once. That was best. I laid back on the bed and one of them went down on me while the other abused me.These are skanks. It costs about $20 usually.
>>27316575
>>27317017
can u fuckin answer these
>>27317581
>the grossness man I dunno it's all business for me I don't even process shit like grossness.
well you are a trooper
man it was YYYUUUGGEEE
And it coagulated into a fine paste too, at least some of it, also like 10 ladles of blood were taken out. I dont know what the measurement tool is called but it looked like a soup ladle.
>>27316700
Would you be interested in maybe starting an anonymous blog about this sort of thing? I'd definitely read it my man.
And no that's not an insult about unsolicited posts.
How do you feel about therapy and/or any psychiatric counseling for someone who doesn't have any apparent debilitating condition? Is it actually helpful or just a waste of money?
>>27317671
drunk anon here
that sounds hot as fuck, you'rre not the only one fukd n the head
none of my coworkers realize how perverted i am
got anymore stories? could you write some short greentext fiction or something? i'm too fucked
>tfw depressed and working in computer hardware 9 years, sick of it and want a career change
>thinking I'll go into nursing because strong stomach
>read this thread and realize how it's probably not the best career for depressed people
Fuck what do I do
>>27315497
Is this one of those "I was actually talking about 4chan all along" things?
>>27317038
How do you take care of yourself?
future CNA here.
gonna be a CNA for spring and summer until I go back to school to try ASNagain
Guess I'm the medical-field equivalent of a front-line grunt.
