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What Psychiatric Nurses Do (Part Eleven – Discharges and Training)
This is part eleven of my series on what psychiatric nurses do. You can read the other parts of the series here. When patients are coming to the end of their stay on a ward, a number of things will...
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What Psychiatric Nurses Do (Part Twelve – Mentoring and Supervision)
This is part twelve (the final part!) of my series on what psychiatric nurses do. You can read the other parts of the series here. Teaching and mentoring students and newly qualified nurses was my...
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My Time as a Student Nurse – Part One
I want to talk about being a student nurse. My nursing-related posts still get a lot of hits and some of the search questions are more related to student nurses. But also, I feel I just have some...
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My Time as a Student Nurse – Part Two
The final three months of the first year of nurse training were spent one day in uni, four days on placement. Our mental health group were introduced to two lecturers who specifically taught mental...
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Second Thoughts? No Way!!
The other day I got the letter I was expecting from the Nursing and Midwifery Council to renew (or not) my nursing registration… It’s crunch time! If I don’t renew my registration, instead letting it...
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My Time as a Student Nurse – Part Three
Wow! My posts on psychiatric nursing have been getting a HUGE amount of traffic! Bizarre when this is primarily a blog about attachment parenting and radical unschooling. Ha ha. But I figured since...
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What Psychiatric Nurses Do (Part Eight – Managing Self-Harm and Suicide)
This is part eight of my series on what psychiatric nurses do. You can read the other parts of the series here. Self-harm is an unfortunate reality of mental health care. Many of the patients on...
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What Psychiatric Nurses Do (Part Nine – Observations and AWOL Patients )
This is part nine of my series on what psychiatric nurses do. You can read the other parts of the series here. As I described in my last post, hourly observations are a mandatory part of the running...
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What Psychiatric Nurses Do (Part Ten – Personal Physical Care and Clerical...
This is part ten of my series on what psychiatric nurses do. You can read the other parts of the series here. Personal physical care has got to one of the least popular aspects of a psychiatric...
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What Psychiatric Nurses Do (Part Eleven – Discharges and Training)
This is part eleven of my series on what psychiatric nurses do. You can read the other parts of the series here. When patients are coming to the end of their stay on a ward, a number of things will...
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