What happens to patients when nurses are short-staffed or work with a high nurse-to-patient ratio? The Truth About Nursing answers: “When nurses are forced to work with high nurse-to-patient ratios, patients die, get infections, get injured, or get sent home too soon without adequate education about how to take care of their illness or injury. So they return right back to the hospital, often sicker than before.” What about the nurses? They get burnout from the physical and emotional exhaus...
What happens to patients when nurses are short-staffed or work with a high nurse-to-patient ratio? The Truth About Nurs...
In the movie One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest – and the book on it which it was based – the main protagonist, R.P. McMurphy, fakes insanity to escape labor. He ends up in a mental facility and comes face to face with Nurse Ratched, who subjects McMurphy to ECT or electroconvulsive treatment. Today the question remains, did the Nurse Ratched character help or hurt the public’s perception of the Psychiatric Nurse? Let us examine the character and the effect and the film have had on psychia...
In the movie One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest – and the book on it which it was based – the main protagonist, R.P. Mc...
First, the Comments Oh... you're a Psych Nurse? How do you deal with those crazy people? I'll pray for you! Did you get your Med/Surg experience first? You know what they say about nurses that work in Mental Health, right? They are a little crazy themselves! If you have been in Psychiatric Nursing long enough, you have heard one more or one of these comments before. Why do people feel the need to judge or question a nurses chosen specialty? In order to get a better understandin...
First, the Comments Oh... you're a Psych Nurse? How do you deal with those crazy people? I'll pray for you! Did...
As a nurse, you do an exceptional job taking care of other people. But have you been taking care of yourself? If you’re feeling stressed out, physically, emotionally and mentally, maybe it’s time you practiced yoga. Contrary to what some may believe, this is not just for contortionists, as there are other types of postures (asanas) you can perform to relax the mind and body. The most widely used style is hatha yoga, but there are others like kundalini, Ashtanga, Bikram, Anusara and...
As a nurse, you do an exceptional job taking care of other people. But have you been taking care of yourself? If ...