Post by temmy on Jan 10, 2016 9:29:11 GMT
The experience that I have had during the course of my graduate year has all been interesting. The one that had my attention the most is learning to work with an acutely ill patients, where they will be so aggressive and disruptive that all attempt to try reach a kind of agreement with them proved futile. Many of these patients were admitted under the influence of drug such as ice and marijuana. It is also interesting to know that some of the patients' mental illness are not drug related but purely organic in other words they do not take illicit drug but became mentally ill due to stress or trauma. Working in an inpatient unit although does not allow one to see patient through their whole recovery journey but it is fulfilling to see some who was initially so thought disordered and aggressive on admission drastically become mentally stable that one can easily establish a meaningful therapeutic relationship with during the course of their treatment.
Knowing this as a mental health nurse gave me a kind of confidence about the future of the mental health service that psychotic medication and other therapy works. And that our patients are receiving a standardized treatment and are getting better.