this is just to remind me to write about my absolutely hideous night at work on Thanksgiving! I spent it on the Adolescent Unit with FIVE teen-aged girls. Imagine what it would be like to spend a day with five adolescent girls of the non-mentally ill type...okay, scared you? Now add to that, some pretty severe metal illness issues, one girl who'd ( Read more... )

I am doing much better with my crazy fellow nurse: I have realized that part of this is because she now getting laid on a regular basis. LOL Seriously, she has a new bf and is much nicer to be around. She still makes me roll my eyes, but I feel a lot less homicidal toward her ( Read more... )

So I worked with two wonderful nurses both named "Bryan" (yes, both spell it with a "y"). I adore these guys. I was working with the co-worker who's annoyed me on Tuesday, and let me just say, she was a completely different person working with the guys. I felt like I was in high school! I would not have been surprised if she'd giggled ( Read more... )

First, let me start off by saying, I'm really pretty moderate. I'm definitely a "live and let live" kind of girl. I have friends who I admire who are conservative as well as friends who are way more liberal than I, and pretty much everything in-between ( Read more... )

Nothing much thrilling happening today--just a work day. Had a new pt with a very sad psychosis: she believed that she had done something terrible and wrong and that she deserved to be punished. Her family were all very supportive of her. They said other than her depression, she really was a healthy, loving person. But if you tried to explain this ( Read more... )

Too many family members and co-workers on FB ( Read more... )

Thanks for the welcome back ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to come back to Livejournal anyway, and just got a big incentive to now: My mother-in-law in on Facebook now. AND I helped her get there ( Read more... )

Okay! Sorry about that, it's been a bit busy around here: I passed my boards and now am a licensed registered nurse! AND I got a job! (this is pretty cool as there are many jobs out there right now) I'll be working as a psych nurse and as my mom said: "How will they know that you are supposed to leave when your shift is over?" LOL ( Read more... )

First, thank you everyone for your warm thoughts! And I've emailed a few folks and it seems that my chartermi.net account is ending up in people's spam email for some reason--so if you were expecting an email from me--check your spam--I could be there ( Read more... )