School has started again and I am getting back into the daily grind, and by grind I mean coffee. My classes are: psychiatric nursing seminar and clinical, pathophysiology, and pharmacology which has continued on from last year. The schedules not bad - classes on Monday and Tuesday, clinical Thursday and Friday. According to the 2nd years, this will be our easiest semester.
Let us now talk more about psych clinical: As I said above, I have clinical on Thursday and Friday. That's all well and good except we have to be there at 7am and it's 45 minutes away. That means I have to get up at 5:30am. In the morning. Not happy.
My clinical sites is at the state hospital, in general psych, on an intensive care unit. Lets just say the patients there must be the ones who said orange is the new pink. The patients on the floor have severe cases of schizophrenia and most are a danger to themselves or others. It's kind of scary and very sad. I am very far out of my comfort zone - I never thought I would prefer to work with advanced AIDS patients, but I would. They told us it takes a certain kind of person to work on a psychiatric unit and I glad there are those people, because it's certainly not me.
However, I do like psych seminar. It is kind of dangerous for me though - I made it through all of med-surg without diagnosing myself with anything, but now I am pretty sure I have schizoeffective, borderline, manic, depressive, bipolar, personality disorder. And it's only the second week.
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I was wondering when you'd develop med student's disease! ;) On the plus side, after this psych rotation, you'll never have to deal with psych patients again (with the exception, of course, of us, your dear friends and family!)
I imagine it's pretty awful, but keep on keepin' on, and this too shall pass.
If I survived psych, you can too. Don't forget to learn all you can about Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, lithium, etc. etc. because that info will come in really very handy!
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