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A Psychiatric Nurse's Blog
http://leovineknight.wordpress.com
A satirical blog about psychiatric nursing and modern times
- Added on: Oct 22nd, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Leo Vine-Knight
- Listed in: Writing Society
- Tags: writing satire mental health journal modern times psychiatric nursing
Recent Posts
Diary of a Psychiatric Nurse – Career Patients
Sacrilegious as it may sound, our patients were often incredibly skilled at dodging personal responsibility, even to the extent of putting more energy into the avoidance of the task, than its completion. Indeed, avoidance was really a longstanding at...
Diary of a Psychiatric Nurse – Technology
Technology. Unfortunately, this was one of the many examples of modern culture completely undermining modern mental health policy. It was hard enough for the average person to keep up with the ever-changing catalogue of CD players, DVD’s, mini-disc...
Diary of a Psychiatric Nurse
On opening the fire door to the landing, we were immediately overpowered by the silage-like stench of fresh, loose faeces, so we donned our imaginary gas masks and began our search for the source. We soon noticed a trail of orange-brown smears on the...
Diary of a Psychiatric Nurse
The main bathroom at the unit was an aircraft hanger of a place made from a pair of large bedrooms knocked together. It was of Romanesque proportions, with the toilet, washbasin and specialist lifting equipment dotted around distant walls, and a huge...
Diary of a Psychiatric Nurse
To imagine the refreshing, systematic washing routines that most people follow in the morning, or even to picture the chaotic but enjoyable bath time exploits of children, was to seriously underestimate the personal hygiene problems of these long sta...
Diary of a Psychiatric Nurse
Sidney joined me in the kitchen and said: “Have you heard of the six second rule yet?” Suspecting more insane bureaucracy, I naively replied: “No” “Well, according to a bloke on telly last night, some cafés have a six second rule. If th...
