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.