[ELITE BANANA]

Omg today a patient asked her nurse to print out a fruits basket image from google so I could draw one of the characters for her.

IDK

it was

kind of funny LOLLLL

nursingstudentqs:

There will be combative patients in any unit, but this is a particular problem in the psych unit [especially in acute]

At the hospital, the alert for a combative patient [without weapon] would be code grey. I’ve only been present for one code grey when a patient threw a chair through the window. My group mates and I didn’t see the actually see the chair being thrown, but heard the patient yelling and loud clattering that sounded like dishes falling. He was alone and had a history out-of-the-blue aggression in past hospitalizations.

So how exactly does the psych unit go about handling a combative patient that has escalated? The stereotype is that patients are immediately thrown into straight jackets. However, I have honestly never seen that happen before.

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Hm, tell me if you guys don’t want me to reblog some stuff from my nursing blog. I’m reblogging the psych stuff b/c I feel like it’s something more people would be interested than something liked medsurg. On another note if there’s any questions about psych nursing / being at the psych unit/ mental illness in general feel free to shoot me an ask!

nursingstudentqs:

So my dad made the interesting comment that one of his worries regarding my psych clinicals is that I will ‘catch’ the mental illnesses and adopt the mentalities/behaviors of the patients at the units.

Firstly some people are born with the predisposition for mental illnesses, and then a traumatic event or a culmination of psychosocial factors leads to an accumulation of stress that the patient can’t cope with - thus triggering the onset of the mental illness.

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bluebunny said: hehe you have so many blogs! i’m interested c: 

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Ahhh I knoww. I so need to update my chinese one, my spanish one is on a long hiatus until the school year finishes for me. :[ I hope you’re enjoying break! [assuming you’re on break]

To add onto my large list of ..blogs.

http://nursingstudentqs.tumblr.com/

This is specifically about nursing! I’m currently posting a bunch of stuff about my experiences at the psych unit, but if you have any questions about the nursing school process, what being a nursing student is like, or just asking wtf nurses do feel free to drop an ask or follow or whatnot!

I wanted to start off with psych nursing mainly because I know a lot of people don’t get the opportunity to observe a psych unit in the first place.

I don’t care if everyone is drawing avengers…I’m going to make avengers buttons too -cries-

If I have extras I will sell online! I’m still trying to figure out the pricing but I’d like to keep it less than $3 per button.

Hm I was wondering if any of you guys going to AX want to preorder buttons want to tell me? 　

Here are designs I have so far, I didn’t post all of them in button format but you get the general idea right? ;_;

www.twinklefish.tumblr.com/tagged/merchandise

no discounts, sorry :[ this is just so I can buy the right amount of buttons I need LOL