Psychiatric Nursing Part 2- Memorable Patients

Before posting about the therapies and my process recording (Process Recording is the flow of conversation between the therapist with some psyche explanations and many more.), I think I have to tell you first about the notable people that I met inside.

NOTE: I cannot mention the names of the patients. As a rule, I do not mention the names of my patients, other patients, my professors, my Clinical Instructors and my school and even the hospitals where I attend my duty. It is a self-imposed rule.

SPO1 (Not Senior Police Officer, SPO means Sexually Pre-Occupied):

Uhm… on our first day, SPO1 was the most enthusiastic inside the patients’ dorm. I was actually thinking of taking him as my client but the choice of patients was not in our hands but in the attendant’s hand. He was really cheerful and we didn’t know that he loves to masturbate.

Psychiatric Nursing- Orientation Phase

The ambiance in the Mental hospital is not what I expected. It isn’t as hospitally as far as the environment is concerned. I mean the white gleaming tiles, the hospital beds and all are waaaay far from this Mental Hospital… all our therapies are done at the hospitals yard under the ancient mango trees that dot the place. It feels like we’re having a picnic.

We were all grouped by twos. I was paired with Aiza. We have to join forces to facilitate the therapy of the assigned patient but the problem is we both antagonize each other. For example, during therapeutic communication her questions are leading to the east while my statements are leading us west. We just couldn’t agree on a lot of things. Aiza is a very intelligent and a really nice person and I should be happy that she is my partner but there are just things that I would rather do by myself. Anyway we were able to get some information from our client. Aiza was able to get the state of his orientation to the “outside world” and a lot of the personal data of our patient while I discovered that our patient was brought in the hospital from Cabanatuan because of Marijuana and other drug abuse, i was also able to know about his close, very close, attachment to his family and his girlfriend, whom he said looks like Alice Dickson.

I think I’ll just post our process recording, mental asssessment, and psychotherapy with the patient and more next week. There are just too many requirements. I guess i wouldn’t have a long night sleep tonight.

Virgo

The Bottom Line

Your newest activities will have a more confusing effect on your life than expected.

In Detail

Your newest scheduled activities might have a more confusing effect on your life than you expected — but clarity is just a matter of getting a handle on all the details! Do a little research today, and your vision will start to become more vivid. You’ll start seeing everything in a more positive light and you may even start feeling downright cocky about how you will handle things. What you used to think was a problem will turn out to be a new puzzle to solve.

I am scheduled to have my psychiatric nursing tomorrow at a mental hospital. I just hoping that I won’t wind up with the people in there.

Relax Lang, Puso Mo Baka Malaglag. (Just relax, Or You Might Drop Your Heart.)

I was actually planning to write somthing else… but yeah… I guess i’ll just post this picture.

This Week

Okay, I am not depressed anymore. I think that depression that I just had was due to the bad weather, you know, less sunlight equals to less melatonin equals to sadness. But I do not have a Seasonal Affective Disorder, I think there are just those days.

I feel all good now. The Self Awareness that we had yesterday, as a preparation for our duty in the Mental Hospital, really helped me a lot. I didn’t know that my groupmates feel that way about me. That they “respect” me and really look up to me. Yeah, that was a great boost to my self esteem. it was a fun day, although I should say that it wasn’t that therapeutic in General. A lot of my classmates were crying in the end. It was like discovering a blank spot in my Johari’s Window (Click here) and finally opening a new chapter in my knowledge of my self. It was cool.

There is a week long celebration in our school so we didn’t have our duty in Mental Hospital for today until Saturday. Darn it, we’ll only have it for only a week, I mean three days, next week.

And since this was the case, our group in Pol Sci took advantage of the moment; this afternoon I’ll be going to the Provincial City jail and spend a whole 24 hour-cycle inside with the prisoners for our Documentary Film. I thought this was exciting weeks ago, but now, erm… i don’t know.

There are only three boys in our Group, Neil, Ray and I, so we’ll all going to go inside. We’ll to keep each other safe. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.