Too soft and easy going? Well maybe, but it's all a learning process isn't it? So I'm sure you can learn to be tougher if it seems appropriate - which doesn't mean that you have to follow the same approach as your fellow students.
I think that having a caring approach and listening to the patients is generally a good thing, but agree with Ehutch about taking care of yourself too, and not getting too emotionally involved with each patient.
I don't know if this is of interest (or you already know about it) but WUN - World Universities Network - do a series of Mental Health Nursing seminars. They stream them live, but they also put past seminars up so that you can watch them later: http://www.wun.ac.uk/mentalhealthnursing/. Basically, WUN is a bunch of Universities all over the place, the live seminars are done via videoconferencing and it means that students get to hears lecturers from all over the world speak on their subject.
Hi, Thank you for the web site address. I hadn't heard of it before, and I have just watched the first lecture. It certainly puts my mind at rest that I am not the only one who is questionning the system :-) I am sure that I will learn to cope better as time goes on. Cheers for pointing me in the right direction :-)
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I think that having a caring approach and listening to the patients is generally a good thing, but agree with Ehutch about taking care of yourself too, and not getting too emotionally involved with each patient.
I don't know if this is of interest (or you already know about it) but WUN - World Universities Network - do a series of Mental Health Nursing seminars. They stream them live, but they also put past seminars up so that you can watch them later: http://www.wun.ac.uk/mentalhealthnursing/. Basically, WUN is a bunch of Universities all over the place, the live seminars are done via videoconferencing and it means that students get to hears lecturers from all over the world speak on their subject.
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Thank you for the web site address. I hadn't heard of it before, and I have just watched the first lecture. It certainly puts my mind at rest that I am not the only one who is questionning the system :-) I am sure that I will learn to cope better as time goes on.
Cheers for pointing me in the right direction :-)
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