The therapeutic role of nursing staff in mental health care is especially pertinent in settings such as inpatient wards, where patients interact with nurses for the largest proportion of time and the relationship with them is cited as key to therapeutic progression (Hopkins et al., 2009; McAndrew...
I suspected the biopsy would be positive, so I had brought my agenda and showed the nurse practitioners my away dates, all highlighted. They told me, “You’re going to have to cancel all of your plans. You have to put your health first.” I closed my agenda and said nothing. I was...
To slow disease progression, hospitals must implement a systematic approach to monitoring patient conditions and initiating necessary interventions [29]. Therefore, routine health monitoring is essential in hospital settings for the effective treatment of SMIs. Such practices can enhance the efficient use ...
first thinking it must be ketchup, then maybe jelly, then this nurse got up to check and pt found to be writing with her own feces, some paper was able to be removed, other paper with large piece of BM pt threw at this nurse.
Our participants are patients, whom at consent, are under the care of a community mental health team and/or have recently been under the care of a crisis team, which typically includes some or all the following: provision of care coordination from a Community Psychiatric Nurse, Social Worker ...
The Health Disparities and Outcomes (HDO) model originally created to explain the complexity of obtaining healthcare in rural settings has been revised and
I am having therapy with a Mental health nurse here in country SA. I am worried I will never stop paying attention to my swallowing and will continue swallowing much more often than normal for ever or at least a very long time (because it is in the forefront of my mind). My therapist...
4 months ago I was put into a psych ward against my will after an ER nurse saw my self harm marks. I was forced to stay there for 5 days even tho I repeated told nurses and anyone else that cutting was a coping mechanism for me and not about suicide. But after talking with me th...
I, being a nurse assistant, rushed into what needed to be done. I took him in the bathroom and told him to get in the bath so I could clean him up. In that moment, my son looked me in the eyes with panic. I know he wouldn't tell me now because I am his mother, but I cou...
frommass.gov, statistics that havenow been removed), but they seem to perceive Covid-19 as the main risk to their lives and health. They won’t take off their masks, for example, even when outside in mostly-deserted Cambridge. After talking to and observing them, I concluded that, at...