Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Week Two
In keeping with technology, this course will begin exploration of psychiatric nursing among blogs on the World Wide Web. I need feedback from the class on your current usage of Blogs. Check out blogs on the net to see what others think about psychiatric-mental health nursing. Cite the web address and comment on the blog. Who is the sponsor(s)? Is the site inviting?
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The blog I found was by a licensed clinical psychologist. She created the blog cite for the purpose of knowledge and entertainment. She also thought it would be helpful for others to see things from different perspectives. As she stated, one story may help another person dealing with similar issues. The blog site also provides information on different topics. One topic that I thought was important was stress. The sponsor of the site is psych central. The link is :
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I currently don’t participate with any online blogging. However, I have found a website which offers exceptional blogging opportunities on a variety of mental health topics for registered members.
ReplyDelete1.The site in which I found was : http://www.healthyplace.com/
The blog for this website is: http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/
The website, Healthy Place, is a mental health site designed to offer individuals information on mental disorders, available medications. Here is an excerpt from the website:
“We have an active mental health social network for support, for online psychological tests, breaking mental health news, mental health videos, our documentary films, a live mental health tv show, unique tools like our “mediminder” and more”.
Dr. Harry Croft, who is the medical director of the San Antonio Psychiatric Research Center reviews all of the articles which are posted on Healthy Place. Dr.
I was able to locate one sponsored resource for the Healthy Place Website and it was AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. This company makes the drug (quetiapine fumarate) SEROQUEL XR. This drug is used to treat depression.
This website is very inviting and extremely informative. There are tabs located at the top of the page that helps with easy site
navigation.
I visit and sometimes comment on several blogs hosted by friends and some ‘celebrity gossip blogs’. My experience with blog sites has been pleasant. I enjoy posting my own comments and reading other readers’ responses. What I like about blogs is that they can be based on anything you want such as personal and medical. I have both a twitter and facebook page. I spend equal amount of time on both. On facebook, I have more access to friends, both old and new. Students on facebook are put into a network of the school they attend which allows you to find and connect with friends from school. You’re also able to connect with friends from home, work and church as well. The blog that I found is entitled MentalHealthBlog.com. (http://www.mentalhealthblog.com/) The tagline on this site is “Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve” -Erich Fromm. This blog is run by a young lady by the name of Meg (all the personal identifiable information given). She has an educational background in both psychology and sociology. This blog offers helpful information on Mental Illnesses such as ADHD, Alzheimer's, addiction, bipolar disorder, depression, PSTD, Schizophrenia, and a plethora of other subjects. The blog also gives information on different drugs used in the mental health field. I particularly enjoyed two blog posts on cancer medications that could possibly be used to treat Schizophrenia and fish oils that could possibly treat Bipolar Disorder. This blog is very inviting, there color scheme and the background are neutral colors that are calming and don’t take away from what the site is about. I was not able to find a sponsor for this site.
ReplyDeleteI do not participate in any types of blogs. I have gotten lots of information from blogs in the past. Personally I do not like using them especially twitter. One blog that has been very helpfull is the Psychiatric and Psycosocial Nursing blog which shares topics of intrest as well as information to broaden ones own knowledge as a nurse. Some topics they discuss newbie psych nursing, DSMMD, past patients, individual counseling therapy, group therapy, community health nursing, mediacal/ med-surg nursing and plans of care. This blog helps me understand some topics covered in class and receive feedback quickly.The only inviting aspect of this blog is the information that is discussed. The blog is plain white and very boring to look at. This blog is sponsored by allnurses.com INC. the web page is http://allnurses.com/nursing-blogs/welcome-my-psychiatric-338049.html.
ReplyDeleteI have not had any previous experience with blogs besides in this class. I personal don't care too much for them probably because I am not use to it. I visited a blog called Nurse Ratched's Place. The web address is http://nurse-ratcheds.blogspot.com/. The sponsor of this site is Mother Jones RN. This blog site is geared toward the use of nursing education. It provides several other blogs to reviewed and commented on for nurses, doctors, and other disciplines.
ReplyDeleteMy current usage of blogs is ZERO. To be completely honest, I don't have a Twitter account and I haven't been on Facebook in over a year either. I like the idea of blogs; it’s a place where conversation and information sharing can take place at the leisure of users. This class blog has definitely peaked my interest in blogging. Feeling very inspired by “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, I actually searched for (and found) a blog with Nurse Ratched’s namesake. It is a privately run blog site where you can sign up, create a profile, and post comments free of charge. The site is filled with stories about nurses’ experience in psych settings, advertisements for nursing supplies, and pictures of ‘old school’ psych nurses doing what they do best. The pictures are cool because they provide a historical reference point from which to compare contemporary nursing to the nursing of yesteryear. The site chronicles the stories of nurses in other setting too. For example, military nurses, ICU nurses, pediatric nurses, etc. Even though it bears the name of a very popular psych nurse, Nurse Rathced’s place is for nurses of all specialties. The web address is http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/.
ReplyDeleteI have participated in blogging before. Don't have a twitter acount yet but will do in the nearest future. The experience I had was great. I do visits some blogging sites even though i am not part of it. I love blogging because it keeps me updated on some of the issues that are going on in the world today. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art. The blog that I just check today is Psychiatric Center mental health blog. This site provides some meaningful information about some of the issues related to Psychiatric Mental Health. I like this site and always visit it when necessary.
ReplyDeleteA story by Jaime FlorCruz over at CNN today caught my eye about mental health problems in China. The journalist asks a simple question, “Are mental health problems in China getting worse?”Like most simple questions asking about an entire nation’s health or mental health, the answer is more complicated. Luckily, FlorCruz acknowledges as much and provides for an interesting and balanced look at the issue.
Is Chinese mental health growing worse?
The article doesn’t start off well, highlighting the link between a spate of violent attacks in China by allegedly mentally ill people. The attacks, in separate incidents in geographically distant areas, have resulted in the deaths and injuries of dozens of people. Media reports often just note an attacker was said to be “suffering from mental illness,” with little detail or background information. Many Chinese watching such reports may be left with the impression that mental illness in China is getting worse, with many such people turning to violence. But after beginning with this gruesome premise, the reporter starts getting some expert opinion and data to see if there’s anything to the connection.
http://blogs.psychcentral.com
I have never thought about blogging before. It would be interesting to share my thoughts on the internet on topics that are interesting to me. Unfortunately,I don't have the time right now. However, I will consider blogging in the near future. Currently, all the blogging that I do is because of psych.
ReplyDeleteI did check out a blog on mental health. The web address is http://mentalmommy.blogspot. The blog is written by a women who suffers from depression and borderline personality disorder. The tiltle of her blog spot is "Swirls in my Head". She would like her readers to know that a person with a mental illness could function normal. She described all the medications she is on and talked about her family.The site is inviting. I learned that the winter months contribute to her depression but she has learned to deal with it by using a SADS lamp. The lamp has a bright light which is therapeutic. She looks forward to the summer months. She also list websites that people can get information.
Overall, I can say I will look at her blog again to see how she is progressing.
I have not had much experience reading the blogs of others. However, I have created my own blog where I talk about my experience as a mother. I have posted a link to my blog on both my facebook and Twitter accounts. It has been a while since I posted anything.
ReplyDeleteThis assignment has also made me interested in exploring other blogs, as the one I have found seemed very interesting. It is titled, "A Psychiatric Nurse's Blog: Looking Through the Glass of Madness" (http://leovineknight.wordpress.com) It appears to be the story of a man who has been hospitalized for a "nervous breakdown" and the events that occur in the hospital. The website itself is dark but the stories are very engaging, giving the reader and inside view of what it is like to be hospitalized.
Check out blogs on the net to see what others think about psychiatric-mental health nursing.
ReplyDeleteAccording Dominik Ritter, “there were 30,774 formal admissions to mental hospitals (i.e. being locked up in psychiatric prisons) across England in 2009/10 which represent an increase of 7.3 per cent from 2008/09” (Blogged May 13, 2011). This means that prisoners would rather prefer to spent longer time in the mental hospitals than they would otherwise spend in prison for their crime. Ritter added that, It seems as if the concern here is about moral panic rather than an actual threat to society posed by the so called “mentally ill”. He defines moral panic as controversies that involve arguments and social tensions between different groups of people that appear to threaten the social order. In all he was advocating that there is nothing call mental illness, and says it is difficult to challenge such misinformation.
Don Weitz, Psychiatric Survivor, gave 25 Good Reasons Why Psychiatry Must Be Abolished inter alia are : psychiatrists frequently cause harm, permanent disabilities, death - death of the body-mind-spirit; they frequently violate the Hippocratic Oath which orders all physicians "First Do No Harm"; they patronize and disempowered people, especially their patients; psychiatry is not a medical science; it is quackery, a pseudo-science which lacks independent diagnostic tests, testable hypotheses; also psychiatrists are racist in disproportionately incarcerating and drugging people of African descent, aboriginal people, other people of color and labeling them “psychotic” or “schizophrenic; Because psychiatrists routinely deceive or lie to patients, prisoners, their families, and the public.
Who is the sponsor(s)?
The Sponsor is Citizens Commission on Human Rights International.
Is the site inviting? Yes, because I was able to make a comment on the blog.
Cite the web address:
http://www.cchrint.org/2011/03/21/25-good-reasons-why-psychiatry-must-be-abolished/
I think that blogs are a good way to gain insight on someone else’s thoughts and opinions about certain topics. Blogs can have more than one purpose. Some blogs are used for entertainment and some blogs can be used for educational purposes. I personally am not a big blogger. In fact I don’t even participate in blogging on twitter or facebook because I don’t have an account with either network. I have recently reviewed some blogs of psychiatric nurses. They had interesting stories and thoughts about things. I read one blog where the nurse was speaking about a time that she was assaulted by a patient. It seemed like it was a traumatic event for her. I also visited the website http://leovineknight.wordpress.com/ and here, there were many stories to read about psychiatric nursing experiences. I like the website and it is inviting. It has a dark and gloomy theme which fits the stories told.
ReplyDeleteThe only personal experiences that I have with blogging is facebook and actually I never even realized that it was considered "blogging". It is interesting to see what others have to say. I am not a daily Facebook blogger, but I do find it interesting. Blogging can be a way to relieve stress and share facts and opinons on various topics.
ReplyDeleteThe blog that I found interesting was "The Mental Health Blog". The site was very inviting to me as it addressed: anxiety, addiction, anger management, depression, panic attacks,self improvement and stress management. The website is http://www.thementalhealthblog.com
I truly feel that I can benefit from this blog because it addresses self improvement and stress management. My time as a nursing has brought upon great deals of stress with trying to manage school, home and work. Self improvement is something that I definitely can benefit from.
There was a topic of how to treat depression naturally at home, which is necessary for everyone because each person handles life's situations differently. Sometimes we don't even realize we are depressed. Previewing his blog has helped me gain a new focus on the "simpliest" things in life.
My personal experience with blogging is very basic i use facebook and i occasionally read celebrity blogs. Other than that it is new to me. I think blogging can be a good way to express ones feelings and potentially relieve stress. It also gives the reader insight on the blogger thoughts and feelings. The one site that i found to me interesting was http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/, because it allows people that suffer from mental illness to express their feelings and emotions about the disease. This site can also be helpful for family members of those suffering from a mental disease by providing education, videos and films that will provide more insight on the illness.
ReplyDeleteI actually enjoy reading blogs on topics that I am interested in. Lately I've been on cooking blogs trying to get ideas for a dinner party thati would like to have. I usually do not post, but just read the feedback of those who have.
ReplyDeleteI found a very interesting blog written by the wife of a schizophreniac. She wrote about her husband, the affect the disorder had had on their marriage, and their dealings with the mental health 'world'. I did find her blog to be very inviting because it was her attempt at trying to share with others who may also have loved ones with the disorder. It was honest and straight forward and shed some light on how much mental illness can affect the lives of the people you love.
The author of this blog was Mr. Mans Wife and the link is
http://the-wife-of-a-schizophrenic.blogspot.com/2007/05/comment-from-reader.html
Due to the facts that we just celebrated the 10 years anniversary of the non-forgotten 911,which brings back lots of hurtful memories for many family and friends all around.I was not suprised reading about so many stories on the web of how people are still being impacted today.I found a Blog that was mostly committed to victms of 911.unfortuntally there thousdands of people still having mental health related issues. © www.mentalhealthblog.com. The author wort about 10,000 firefighters, police officers and civilians who were at the disaster site here have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).This goes to say that Mental health problems are being more and more recongnizable, and that people are not shying away due the STIGMA associatted with mental health problems. The site is very inviting as well as informative.
ReplyDeleteOther than this class, I have not had many experiences with blogs. My friend has a blog about her life as a mother and I have read that several times. A psych blog that I found on the internet is http://allnurses.com/nursing-blogs/welcome-my-psychiatric-338049.html. This blog is from the nurse’s perspective. Her blog is divided into 11 subsections. She talks about ways to get through the shift, pearls of wisdom to use for your personal practice, and how to run successful therapy groups. The website is not very eye catching, but the information is very insightful.
ReplyDeleteI do not normally participate in blogging. My husband has a blog helping people save money. He tells people where to find the best deals and coupons, but I don’t even get on there to see that either. When searching for a psychiatric blog I came across was, http://allnurses.com/nursing-blogs/welcome-my-psychiatric-338049.html. The author is by Thunferwolf who is a medical/med surg nurse, and they explain how "psychiatric patient truly has no walls and is not limited to the psych floor or unit." So they did a blog with topics to broaden one's own knowledge base as a nurse. They share insights and explore some topics that they have come to recognize in their profession as a nurse. The website came up when I put in the search "blogs in psychiatric nursing" so I went to it. Other then that the website is not that appealing but I think it is informative.
ReplyDeleteMy blogging experience is limited, I have twitter account, that I do not use and a facebook that I check frequently. My favorite blog spot is www.hip2save.com, she gives shopping tips and the lowdown on sales. In looking at mental illness, I checked out a few blogs.
ReplyDeleteIn searching for a mental health blog, I came across http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/. This website is an open forum for families to open up and express feelings about what they are dealing with. This is a great coping mechanism for families. I think this would be a great tool, for patients and families that need an outlet.
I haven't blogged in a long time, since English class were I was first introduced to blogging. Hadn't blogged since then until now and hadn't thought about blogging. Being in school has stopped me from doing some things that I probably would do if I had some free time. I found a blog spot: http://psychiatric-nursing.blogspot.com/2011/07/posttraumatic-stress-disorder.html, sponsered by Sunandar.I'm not sure how inviting it is; although the colors drew my attention, it did appear to be educational. Had a recent post about post traumatic stress disorder. It talked about the symptoms, interventions and planning. Their was also other links to the various mental ill disorders that we have discussed in class. I plan on revisiting the blog.
ReplyDeleteI have never blogged but I have read blogs of friends and when I had a assignment about learningabout blogging. Blogs can be interesting. I found a blog that I would actually continue reading since I started reading about 10 posts. The website is http://fightingthedarkness.blogspot.com/. The sponsor is a woman named Jaime. She writes about her experience with depression and is very open about her struggles with depression and how she is dealing it. In her about me section I found it inspiring with this statement, "Depression doesn't define me. It may be part of who I am, but it's just a part."
ReplyDeleteWhich you could apply to another things not limiting it to depression. The site is inviting to me. when I opened it up and saw the heading, "Fighting the Darkness: My Secret Battle with Depression. I hid my battle with depression for over 21 years. I'm done hiding," I was intrigued to see what she has been blogging about. The blog is simple but eye-catching with its colored background of grass and sky.
I like the idea of blogging although I do not participate in them, unless I have to because of school. I once in a while google different topics about nursing, and read the different blogs and comments, majority of the time I read the blog at allnurses.com. I visited a blog created by Angela Brook on “nurses experiences in Psychiatric units with high risk of assault” at http://angelabrook.com/nurses-experiences-in-psychiatric-units-with-high-risks-of-assault . In this blog the author discusses what it takes to be a psychiatric nurse; you must have patience, know how to listen, remain calm in the worst situation e.t.c, she mention that the nurses know that events that may occur on a psyc unit is unpredictable, so psyc nurses she be ready for anything from the time they walk in the door, to the time of departure. This site was very inviting. The site was colorful, it had pictures, and you could share the site with your friends through facebook and twitter.
ReplyDeleteI dont really blog at all. Once in a while I might get on facebook but thats very rare. I blogged last year for class but thats just about it. Im not really on the computer alot only for assignments or if Im looking for something particular. The blog cite I found is located on psychcentral.com and it is privately and wholly owned and operated by Dr. John Grohol. It contains several blogs about different psychiatric disorders. It is very informative and has all kinds of educational materials present for all types. It is very inviting!
ReplyDeleteI do not currently blog. I have a facebook profile and I haven't been on it much lately because I have been so busy with school work. When I looked at various websites for blogs for mental health, I was very surprised. There are many blogs that encourage people with mental illnesses to share their experience, but there are some blogs that are designed just to encourage people with mental illnesses not to give up on trying to find happiness or a happy medium in their lives. I thought that one particular site was very inviting: http://charlesbivona.com/. Charles Bivona is a poet and an English Professor who suffers from depression. He gives avery detailed and intimate account of his life. he shares his academic accomplishments with the world, but he talks about the feelings of sadness that were going on inside of him when everything really looked like it was great on the outside. His blog may be very helpful for people who feel like they are the only ones who experience certain feelings. His blog allows for feedback, but it also gives a vivid account of his experience with mental illness. it also shows readers that you can be successful and accomplish your goals even if you have a mental illness.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a blog of my own but I have participated in others blogs when invited to give my 2 cents on an issue. Blogging can be cool, just a way to vent for some and maybe a way to gain different perspectives for others. Never thought of looking up blogs about mental health, but when I googled it, this website came up: http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/breakingbipolar/2011/11/sexual-health-and-bipolar-disorder/#more-3247. Blog entitled "Sexual Health and Bipolar Disorder was written by Natasha Tracy. It was ironic that we just talked about this issue in class just last week about bipolar disorder and types of behaviors to expect from individuals who are bipolar. This blog talked about a young woman's experience living with bipolar and how having the disorder has affected her sleep, eating and sex habits. She says there are times when she does not sleep, does not eat and may not even desire sex when depression hits. But on the flip side, when the manic side kicks in her appetite and sleep habits increase and her sex drive increases as well resulting in promiscuous behaviors because the sexual desire is just that strong. She always spoke about how the medications she takes for bipolar affects eating, sleeping and sex. She was saying that doctors that prescribes these medications focus more on the side effects involving eating and sleeping patterns but they are not too concerned with the effects the drug has on the sexual drive. There were a few comments written about how different bipolar medications have left many with no sexual desire or inability to climax but their doctors have told them to choose between whats more important, a healthy mind or a healthy sex life, but many people feel that they deserve both because sex is a natural part of life. My thoughts about this blog were simply "wow", no particular reason, just "wow". In my opinion the blog was inviting because it listed various mental illnesses that effected every aspect of a persons life. The blog was sponsored by Healthy Place Communities.
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ReplyDeleteMy exposure to blogging is none, but familiar with face book and my space. I believe blogging will be very interesting site to share ideas and also read new information about other people. One blog I stumble upon was Mental Nurse. This blog talks about how mental health nurses deal with daily situation on the floor and how they are able to control or find out a positive outcome for the situation. IT also highlight on alternative ways of seclusions and restrains for aggressive patients. The sponsor for this site is mental nurse and I found it very inviting due to its educational resources. The website address is www.mentalnurse.org.uk
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I don’t really use blogs, but when I started exploring different psychiatric nursing blogs for this course assignment, I become interested and I find a website that dealt with Family Mental Health. The web address is http://blogs.psychcentral.com/family/ and the sponsor of the website is Dr. John Grohol. It is an independently owned web site and various individuals in the medical field post blogs that dealt with mental health. The reasons why I found this site very interesting is because it is privately owned and I can get more information in depth that talks and looks at Family Mental Health issue without having to worry about someone trying to sell me anything like new drugs. Other reasons why I find this site very interesting is because whenever I think about Psychiatric Mental Health I don’t think about how it affects the family, but this site showed me that something as simple as child bullying can result in dire consequences and can affect a child’s mental psyche. Overall, this website is very inviting. There are also various issues about Family Mental Health that are discussed on how to help a loved one who is depressed and how people around them deals with this depression.
Hmmmm, i think this is my second time of blogging and although i don't like doing it, it seems as though i dont have a choice. I do have a facebook account dont frequent it much. Well what i found today had to with knowing the psychological and psychosoial spects of a patients, how they feel, how their loved one's feel, their source of support, and resources available to help them out. The website is http://allnurses.com/nursing-blogs/welcome-my-psychiatric@hotmail
ReplyDeleteI currently do not have blogging experience, I do have face book but I barely check or post comment. The one that I blog is “wife of a schizophrenic” the author is a Victoria Clarke; she is a Director of Mental Health. The blog is about Mr. Mans wife, she talks about her experiences with her husband mental health problem, and how it has affected their marriage. She explored the purpose of reading information about mental disorders to help understand how to care for them, and what to expect from the Mental Health services. She explain how knowledgeable she was after reading the “Fundamentals of Mental Health nursing” I find the web site inviting because it was created for the purpose of knowledge perception, increase student clinical skills and to help them develop their own skills. It also develops to help the families to talk about mental disorder and look for available recourses to support their love ones. The site is http:// blogspot.com/fundamentals-of-mental-health-nursing.html
ReplyDeleteI have no experience blogging. Learning how to blog is interesting. The website I found was http://www.mentalhealthblog.com. A young lady name Meg is doing the posting for this blog. One of things I found interesting is two quotes on “Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve” and “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. There are several blogs posted for comments but the one most appealing was Cancer drug may treat Schizophrenia. There is a cancer medication helps with the reduction of an enzyme that is found in patients with Schizophrenia. This medication helps alleviates the symptoms seen in Schizophrenia.
ReplyDeleteI am not interested in blogging. I do not have any experience with blogging and am not very computer savvy. I have asked several questions on google and the site sent me to a link that was a blog but I never have found it personally helpful. After some research about nursing blogs pertaining to psych mental health I came up with one and that was allnurses.com. This is a website where any nursing related questions you have can be answered by other healthcare professionals mostly experienced nurses. In my experience I have been sent to this site on a few occasions to get answers to y nursing questions. I find the site inviting, however I am a skeptic when it comes to the validity of information coming from blog cites.
ReplyDeleteI have no previous experience with blogging nor have I read other blogs. After learning about blogging and actually experiencing it in this class, I find myself enjoying it. It’s a nice way of sharing ones experiences and knowledge with others on any given subject.
ReplyDeleteOne of the Psychiatric blogs I found was the “Amazing World of Psychiatry: Psychiatry Blog”. One of the Blogs by Dr Justin Marley explains and provides videos on the different forms of catatonia. He feels that catatonia should get a separate classification in the DSM-V rather than be a symptom.
This site is inviting and allows for comments. It is sponsored by Medpedia News and Analysis
Source: http://theamazingworldofpsychiatry.wordpress.com/
I learned a lot from this blog especially from watching the videos. Much of the information on blogs is not proven since it is based off of one person’s point of view but expert information can be very resourceful.
My blogging experience is very limited . I never post, nor read other peoples blogs. I do not find it interesting at all. After doing some researching I was able to find two psychiatric nurse blogging sites, http://www. allnurses.com and leovinknight.wordpress.com. Allnurses is a cite that nurses and nursing students can ask any questions they have pertaining to any topics. There was a blog that talked about how psychiatric nursing was always limited to the psych ward and it should not be limited. There where other blogs talking about how current nurses would like to leave their current jobs to do pysch nursing. The blogging that I found on these websites was actually interersting. I found it to be more informative and less gossiping. Both cites are very inviting.
ReplyDeleteI have never participated in a blog before. I honestly not too long ago realized what they are. I would always hear about different celebrity and gossip blogs and wondered what the "hype" was alll about. For this assignment I look at a blog titled the millionaire nurse. The webcite is themillionairenurse.com. It was very inviting and allowed nurses to discus their salaries. I did not write anything but I read a few comments about opinions on cost of living compared to salaries in different cities.
ReplyDeleteI don't like to read blogs or to actually do blogs myself. However, some people consider facebook as a blogging site and I sometimes make a status or read and comment on a status of a friend, but other than that I do not participate in blogs. I went to http://www.psychforums.com/anti-psych/topic76607.html which is a psych forum and I read a blog written by TruthSpeak he talked about doctors being quick to give a patient and psychiatric diagnosis when the person's symptoms could come from medication or illicit drug toxicity, uses, or withdrawal.The site is visual inviting, but I don't like to read blogs so it's not very inviting to me. They have a lot of different blogs or different topics that may be very interesting for someone that wants to read and reply or even write them, but it's just not for me.
ReplyDeleteI have never blogged before, nor have I ever read other peoples blogs. One of the blogs I viewed was www.leovineknight.wordpress.com this blog was very inviting and interesting. It allowed nurses to post stories about there experiences on the unit and what its like to work as a psychiatric nurse. This site is also very helpful to nursing student and new nurses because it gives them an idea and what to expect once becoming working nurses. Another site I found interesting was Mind blog sponsored by a mental health nurse that goes by Zarathustra. This site allows people involved in mental health to tell their stories and debate with each other about current issues involving health care.
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ReplyDeleteMy blogging experience is nothing to write home about. I neither blog nor read blogs from other people. However, am blogging as a requirement for this course and while searching for a mental health blog, I came across www.mcmanweb.com. This website is created by John Mcmanamy, an award winning mental health journalist and author who has used the last 12 years of his life researching and writing about on depression and bipolar disorder for patients and their families. This website is an open forum for families to open up and express feelings about what they are dealing with. Mcmanamy emphasizes the fact that knowledge if a necessity and recovery from mental illness starts with knowledge which is gained through obtaining the necessary information concerning the disorder. The website contains a lot of information about psychiatric mental health and stories that help patients and their families cope. It is inviting tool
Week 3 Blog
ReplyDeleteThe use of movies to teach Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing enables the student to understand mental disorders without actually dealing with the patient. Students learn the signs and symptoms of these disorders and probably ways of managing them before they actually meet the patient with the disorder. Using movies for the teaching of Psychiatric Nursing also circumvent the ethical and legal issues that are involved with the mentally ill. On the other hand, there are usually incompatibilities between the cases presented in movies and real patients.
Watching these movies help the students examine their values and beliefs, deal with preconceptions and stereotypical images of the mentally ill before they can help patients. It also enables the students to see the world in the eyes of the mentally ill; this way, they are better prepared to help patients cope with their illnesses. However, if the student is unable to deal with stereotypes and preconceptions, movie images can cause distort their feelings about the mentally ill.
Week 4 Blog
ReplyDeleteMy Psychiatric-Mental health nursing clinical rotation has been such an interesting experience for at me. Initially, I went in with a lot of fear of the unknown; however, I can honestly say it is nothing like what I had imagined. The clients at my facility are very welcoming and quite interesting to work with and every clinical morning, they are happy to see us and cheer us on as we start our daily interaction with them. The nurses and staff members at my facility are wonderful and very resourceful too. They have been such a big help in reducing our anxieties. I had lots of misconception (chaos) of a psych unit, but fortunately for us the milieu has been very well maintained and we really have not seen an extreme case of mental illness. After interacting with the patients, I am really impressed with the way the instructors incorporate evidence based practice in theory and at the clinical setting. It makes it easy to understand clients’ behavior, disorders, signs and symptoms and this really helps in the provision of competent care.
Week 5 Blog
ReplyDeleteI participated in a sex addiction support group at the Church of The Redeemer, located at 5703 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21210. The session began with an introduction of members and reading from the recovery literature that consisted of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions for Sex Addiction Anonymous (SAA). The group consisted of 10 participants including me, and an attending Sex Addiction Specialist. The meeting was open, meaning that individuals were free to attend regardless of gender, especially those who are interested in recovering from sex addiction. This support group is continuous during the year, and meets at 8:00 pm every Friday. These meetings provide an environment of acceptance, safety, and encouragement for sex addicts to learn how to apply the Twelve Steps in their lives. It also offers opportunities to reach out and serve other sex addicts. During this meeting, regular members shared how the Twelve Steps have helped them on their road to recovery from this addiction; while new members shared their ordeals from this addiction and why they need help. There was this particular case that sent me wondering how something as good as sex can became such a sexual urges that are stronger than he can resist. He said he is constantly watching pornography at work and has lost a couple of jobs due to his sexual harassments to his coworkers. He confessed to masturbating compulsively at the site of an attractive woman. He also stated that, he had slept with his wife’s sister, cheated on his wife with her friends, and has a habit of picking and sleeping with prostitutes. He said he finally realized that sex has become more important to him than his family, friends, and job because he has lost all. He said his only relief to negative feelings is sex, even though he knows that this is a risky behavior, he does it and manages the consequences after. He said he was arrested for rape and that was when he decided to seek help with his addiction. Judging from the way the regular members spoke, I believed he is going to recover from his addiction if he works with the Twelve Steps recovery as directed. This activity brought me closer to what it really feels like being a sex addict and I truly empathize with them.
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ReplyDeleteFinally, the end is here and I must say I had a great learning experience during this clinical rotation. I learned a lot of things and the most interesting one of them is using therapeutic communication in Psychiatric-Mental Health clinical setting. At the beginning, I was a little nervous about conversing with the patients; but after the first clinical day, I could not wait to go back to clinical and see how my patients were progressing toward recovery. After a therapeutic nurse-client relationship was established, we gained the patients trust and we were able to help them in many ways. We held several group sessions with these patients and taught them different ways of managing anger, avoiding aggression, and stressful situations and we also played games with them. Most of the patients seemed pretty stable after spending a few days at the facility and were ready to go back home. It was really nice seeing them achieve their goals and taking on the next phases of their lives. Generally, the clinical rotation has been a very good learning experience for me and I am looking forward to working as a psychiatric nurse.
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ReplyDeleteI have not been blogging in the real sense. The closest I have come to doing this is joining in on conversations and doing commentaries on photographs and chatting on Facebook. However, recently, a lot of classes have been harping on the need for students to be blog-literate. Incidentally, I decided to visit a blog site and fortunately one of the first few sites visited happens to be a site sponsored by the American Psychiatric Nurses Association(APNA). The site is http://community.Apna.org/blogs/. Interestingly, the site looks very inviting and easily navigable. The blog topics range from telemental health, electroconvulsive therapy, a student calling for research questions concerning an ECT topic, to a posting about the annual conference of APNA. One can view blogs, post new ones and also recall old blog topics. While the website may look boring to those who are not students of mental health, it however proves a veritable site for a genuine conversation on issues revolving around psychiatry.
Facebook, unlike this site and as attractive as it may be, can never address mental health and psychiatric nursing the way APNA blog sets out to do.
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ReplyDeleteI currently have two blogs that I participle in facebook and twitter I enjoy blogging because this helps me to vent my feeling at times. I came across this blog site about nurses to me this is everyday people with real life questions about the feeling s towards work and how to better themselves in their area of specialty. This site http://nurse-ratcheds.blogspot.com/ talks about been geared toward the use of nursing education. It provides several other blogs to reviewed and commented on for nurses, doctors, and other disciplines. It was developed by mother Jones RN.
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ReplyDeleteI am still yet to get into the whole blogging thing. This is actually my first time of blogging. I never thought about it before, and I am not following anyone either. I think I am selective in what I do with technology. Hopefully, at the end of class, I will find blogging interesting and I will take advantage of it. In the meantime, to answer the question, I found a blog online titled ‘The Amazing World of Psychiatry.’ This blog is owned by Br. Justin Marley. His blog talks celebrates psychiatry and the benefits it brings to people and the society. It reviews news, paper, and other psych blog. One of his recent blogs published February 2014 talks about the action of antidepressants. According to his blog, “antidepressants enhance the processing of positive emotions while damping the process of negative emotions.” He has a pretty good empathetic responses toward the nurse-client relationship among the participants on his blog. He has participants from all regions of the world. Some people commend him for the great job he is doing and others offer suggestions on how to improve his blog. For instance, Frank shared a link with him that would enable readers to share information on the blog on Facebook and also via email. He thanked frank, and now I see that he has a Facebook like button under each blog. I don’t know if the owner of this blog has external sponsors; I could find that information on his page. However, he has multiple, interesting blog in mental health ranging from psychosis, substance abuse, Alzheimer disease and many more. You can check out his blog by following this link http://theamazingworldofpsychiatry.wordpress.com/about/
Thanks...this sounds interesting...
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ReplyDeleteI need feedback from the class on your current usage of Blogs. Check out blogs on the net to see what others think about psychiatric-mental health nursing. Cite the web address and comment on the blog. Who is the sponsor(s)? Is the site inviting?
o My first experience with blogging was last semester during Nursing Informatics. It was a requirement for the course to blog for a class assignment in blackboard. I have not blogged since then although I find blogging to be a great was to share information and experiences.
o I first searched the American Psychiatric Nursing Association (APNA) http://community.apna.org/APNA/Blogs I found the layout of the site to have good flow and to be simple to navigate through. You have the option to search through Most Recent Topics, Top Related Topics, and Most Read Topics. I read a blog called “Self Care: What does that mean to you” by Stephanie Grey. In her blog she discussed how “Many nurses don’t take care of themselves and get burnt out, and it can impact how they take care of others as well.” She suggested to, “take time for you, and smell the roses. Learn deep breathing exercises, aromatherapy, exercise, healthy nutrition, and gardening. Humor is therapy as well, and art work. We can all take care of ourselves as nurses.”
o The second blog I read I also found on American Psychiatric Nursing Association (APNA) http://community.apna.org/APNA/Blogs. The blog was titled “New graduate psychiatric nurses” by Ashley Altman. She says, “Are they still telling undergraduate nursing students to do a year of med-surg before going into a specialty, particularly psychiatry? This is Ludacris. I was a new graduate who convinced my manager to hire me directly into an inpatient psychiatric unit, and I have never felt that I needed a year of med-surg. In fact, having just come out of nursing school, I knew more med-surg skills than my colleagues -- who had done their obligatory year of med-surg 20 years ago. I know of even dedicated psychiatric nursing faculty who tell their undergraduates this. Why aren't we supporting good, quality nurses who we can influence early in their careers? Let's not wait for the nurses who look for psychiatry to be their "semi-retirement" stage. When I've taught nursing students or preceptor senior students, I have always told them to go into the nursing specialty they love -- whether that be mental health, women’s' health, critical care, med-surg, etc. Learn everything you can and be the best darn nurse in that field that you can be. If you want to switch gears later, do so, but don't think you have to put in some obligatory year somewhere just to pay your dues.” This blog really inspired me because I have no desire to want to be a med-surg nurse. I really would like to go into public health nursing, community nursing, nursing case management, or nursing research when I graduate. I have no desire at all to work in an acute care setting. Reading this blog gave me hope and inspiration that there are places that will hire in specialty areas without having committed to a year of med- surg nursing first.
o Other interesting Psych-Mental Health Blogs included:
o http://www.psychcongress.com/blogs/lmddoc/july-15-2013-1046am/nurse%E2%80%99s-holistic-approach-mental-health
o http://www.fortis.edu/blog/nursing/working-as-a-psychiatric-mental-health-nurse/
Your critique is excellent...you have a flair for assessment.
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ReplyDeleteBlogging has never really been my thing, but for the purpose of this assignment, I stumbled on a lot of blogs. One of the most interesting and inviting one was from Leslie Durr, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BCv . She was a caregiver for a woman with chronic depression that worsened predictably in the fall and winter but was also diabetic. She incorporated a holistic nursing approach to determine what action to take when one night the woman’s blood sugar dropped and she became nervous.
I have heard a lot of people say that one is very likely to lose their critical care nursing skill in Psychiatric Nursing but this blog post is one that counters this thought. One of the comment is about a Nurse Practitioner who also used holistic approach to care for an anxiety patient in his 80's with advanced idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and who was oxygen dependent.
Indeed, the use of holistic approach is good in taking care of psychiatric patients because these patients may have other medical conditions besides their mental health challenges. Therefore, the use of one’s critical care skill is important and the issue of losing these skills is not visible if used effectively in psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Durr, L. (n.d.). Retrieved June 17, 2014, from http://www.psychcongress.com/blogs/lmddoc/july-15-2013-1046am/nurse%E2%80%99s-holistic-approach-mental-health
You only lose what you don't want to use...so many of our clients have chronic health issues and do required medical intervention.
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ReplyDeleteBlogging is actually new to me. This is actually my first time of participating in a blog and I am finding it very interesting because I am able to read others peoples opinion and follow the discussion. I do have a Facebook account however I seldom follow up with issues on Facebook. I am thrilled to find this website http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/ while searching Google for blogs on mental health. This site was developed by American mental health channel to provide an avenue for individuals having mental health disorders and professionals to share their view on the various mental health disorders. I find this site very inviting because so many mental health disorders were discussed by the different contributors and they are also very current. One thing that I observed I that is common among the different contributors was the empathetic responses that are evident in their writing. One example of such that I really enjoyed reading was written by Tanya J. Patterson titled “make time for anxiety” she related anxiety to a toddler that demands constant attention and concluded by saying that when we set aside time to worry, we are regaining power over our own minds. I find this as very powerful piece that can bring about a positive change in any one with this disorder because not only did she empathize with any one suffering with this disorder, she also went ahead to offer solutions that will be beneficial in managing the disorder.
Blogging is not a new concept. Technology has made everybody's diary visible to world...does that make us voyeurs...hmm
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ReplyDeleteI have not really used blogs and my first experience with blog was the one I posted on the NURS 432 blog on my week one clinical experience in Mental Health Nursing at Coppin State University. However, I have been opportune to read blogs on the World Wide Web, particularly those that focus on current issues in nursing. Numerous scholarly papers that I have had to write right from inception of my nursing program and which necessitate that I cite credible scholarly sources have led me to so many blogging cites that relates to nursing. I have found these blogging cites interesting and intriguing.
The first blogging cite I visited is sponsored by the American Psychiatric Nursing Association. Being a professional cite, the blog offers insight into varying views held by nursing professional- including students on mental health issues. The cite is very informative, educative, and appealing, most especially for those who take interest in mental health issues. A careful review of blogs on this cites reveals that the field of mental health nursing is very interesting and at the same time faced with numerous challenges. These observations are reflected in the following blogs:
“Despite having an opiate withdrawal protocol, that provides fairly sound guidance for physicians in symptomatically treating w/d symptoms; there seems to be significant controversy among clinicians in how to best manage this population during their hospitalization. If their stay is short, and their medical issue minor, they seem to do fine with just the opiate detox protocol (catapress, or clonidine, antiemetic, valium, etc)……” (An excerpt from the blog of Amy Picolo titled “Managing Opiate Withdrawal for Medical Patients with Heroin/or other Opiate Addictions” Posted on 9 September 2014 at 12:38 am).
“For feedback: this was a course well worth the time and effort. The interaction, ongoing learning, and experience of the leaders was exceptional. It was good review and a great learning experience. Our group "adopted" each other for the conference and met each session. This made for a richer experience. We had similar backgrounds, complimented each other's learning styles, and personalities. Would enjoy this repeated with another topic...Kathy.” (An excerpt from the blog of Kathy Royer titled “DSM 5 Conference Course” Posted on 26 October 2014).
The blogs by Amy Picolo and Kathy Royer shows that despite the availability of interesting events and trending issues in the field of mental health, there are still contending issues affecting professionals and patients that need clarification.
A very good example of an empathic response used by one of the blogger is; “I work hard to be an advocate for these patients, as well as provide psychoeducation, supportive counseling and motivational interviewing during their stays.” This statement was made by Amy Picolo in her blog about “Managing Opiate Withdrawal for Medical Patients with Heroin/or other Opiate Addictions.” Another statement made by a blogger which shows the use of empathic response is; “The mentally sick also appreciate care and show of empathy and love.” The statement was made by Angela Ngoka in her blog “Use of Trained Dog in Aggression Management”
Another blog I searched and analyzed was the Psych Congress Network. This blog is quite different from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association blog in that it is not an umbrella professional association blog but a network organization that has the goal of serving as the go-to resource for clinicians seeking the highest quality of care for their patients, thereby presenting information in a practical, accessible manner.
Web page: American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA).
Website: http://community.apna.org/APNA/Blogs
Web page: Psych Congress Network
Website: http://www.psychcongress.com/b
You found the jackpot of good professional collaboration efforts using blogs...I really enjoyed reading trends in psych nursing practice
DeleteBlogging is a new thing for me. I just have not had time to blog or get into reading different blogs because I am busy with school and work. I was lucky to find a Psych blog called Ordinary tale about nurse in Psychiatric Nursing. On this blog the list different psych disorders and give students and readers the signs and symptoms, nursing interventions, nursing outcomes , planning and care with clients with different psych disorders. This cite does not disclose any sponsors but I believe it is ran by a group of psych nurse. The cite definitely looks inviting because it gives I as student resources to benefit my understanding with mental health disorders.
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I will need to post this for your class if you find it helpful...I am always looking for reliable resources to assist students with academic success...thanks for your endorsement
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DeleteIn my lifetime, I have written various blogs. I enjoyed first reading celebrity blogs, then cooking blogs followed by baby blogs after I had my son. I don’t write blogs as much as I use to. The last time I posted on a blog was when I was 8 ½ months pregnant and I was told by my doctor that my son might suffer from Trisomy 18. Trisomy 18 is an error in cell division occurring during pregnancy which usually ends in stillbirth. Most mothers find out about the scare in the first or second trimester, I was finding out a few weeks before I delivered. With overwhelming feelings, I turned to blogging. I found other mothers in similar situations and by revealing my situation… somehow made me feel better about it. After I delivered a healthy baby boy, my life seemed to be more busy than usual. I was overly paranoid about my son for at least the first four months, so blogging no longer was an activity I was involved in.
ReplyDeleteAfter googling mental health nursing blogs, I found a beautiful blog that was written in poem form that speaks about a psychiatric patient who judged upon the way she responds or lack of, and the way she looks. The blog is called “Crabbit Old Woman,” and a nurse responds from a nurse’s view to that blog, by calling her blog “A Nurse’s Reply to the Crabbit Old Woman.” In the first blog the patient discusses how past events have made her who she is now, from a joyous young girl who listened to her parents to a sad old lady who lost her husband. She describes the nurses being uncaring, and always rushing when dealing with her. The nurse’s response when onto explain that as a nurse we care but compared to patients, nurses are few. There isn’t enough time to give every patient a lot of time, to listen, to drill the patient on what is wrong etc. This was an eye opener for patients and nurses in my mind. As a patient we must understand nurses have a long list of tasks to do before their shift is up, most of the time lists that are unable to be completed and require overtime. Nurses must prioritize with all their patients, and we can’t take it personal. As nurses we must devote all of our time into our patients and do our best when caring for them.
Blogger. Ms. Ginger(Oct, 2011)
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Thanks for sharing...some times we have to really walk a mile in each other's shoes
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ReplyDeleteI commend the nurses and Nurse Trujillo for doing her job like it should be done. I am senior nursing student and they teach us the many roles of the nurse. All of these roles are within the nurse's scope of practice
The sponsor is nurseratched.com
The blog is inviting current medical personnel especially nurses to know their scope of practice and practice tot he utmost extent.
Nurse is the backbone of health care, we are the eyes and ears without the nurse no care would be done. The nurse should not be intimitated by higher colleagues but should preform care as directed.
I like nurseratchedspace...
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ReplyDeleteSome of the blogs I could find on psychiatric-mental health nursing include the following:
The blog site was the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education (NACCME). The site is inviting and easy to find and use. I found that while the responders are objective, they also have that empathetic care of patients, especially seeing that they were able to identify other medical issues that could lead to emergency situations when the patients followed up with them for mental health reasons.
This blog was initiated Leslie Durr, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC on about a nurse’s holistic approach to mental health which is different from what other mental health disciplines do. She gave an example of a patient she cared for with a diagnosis of depression, who would call her from time to time to help her evaluate her situation and address her feelings about her perceptions on how her daughter felt about her. On one instance, the patient called and told her she feels nervous, even though nothing had happened to precipitate such feeling. Dr. Durr advised she check her blood sugar immediately (being a diabetic who followed a strict food regiment and was on oral hypoglycemic) with the patient’s FSBS in the 50s and then advised her to drink some orange juice and reviewed the importance of having a small night snack. After that experience, she wondered why she immediately thought about the patient’s blood sugar and realized that her nursing background was the main factor in her approach, then she wondered if a psychologist or social worker, or counselor could have thought of the symptoms of the patient and quickly come to that deduction, she then asks for others’ input on their experiences and other topics they would like to address in their blogs.
One of the responses was from a Nurse Practitioner (Andrew Penn) who treats patients with psychiatric issues. A patient followed up with him in his office with severe anxiety, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and was oxygen dependent with a respiratory rate in the 40’s while at rest. While his respiratory symptom could be explained by PTSD and childhood abuse of being suffocated by a parent, realizing that he has recent swelling in his legs, the patient asked him if that was normal and the NP’s assessment revealed the patient presented with 3+ edema that indicated he was in right heart failure and prompted immediate transfer to the hospital by paramedics to be admitted. He also states in his blog, “I don’t know if I would have recognized this edema as assign of CHF if I had not had my training as a nurse”.
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http://www.psychcongress.com/blogs/lmddoc/july-15-2013-1046am/nurse%E2%80%99s-holistic-approach-mental-health
I love blogs from my colleagues. Its a good way to stay in touch with what is current and trending...thanks for sharing...ps psych nurses need good medical assessment skills like my patient with the swollen scrotum the size of a cantaloupe...he was in CHF.....
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Blogs…never have been interested in it. Now, I have too. The web site is the American Psychiatric Nursing Association website. Link is http://community.apna.org/apna/directory/blogs/. The site is inviting, easy to access any topic of interest through advanced search. The site organizes the blogs according to most recent, top rated and most read.
I searched the site and got drawn to what I have an interest in. The use of restraints as a precautionary treatment for someone that demonstrates self-destructive behavior. The blog was an update blog written by Patricia Cunningham, titled June 2014 President’s Message. It highlights the changes that have been made on seclusion and restraints from institutional policies to legislation. The blogger emphasized the need for the client to be involved with their care, respect for autonomy and the importance of a ‘trauma-informed care’.
Another blog written by Maureen Kolomeir, titled Restraint (seclusion?) room location was thought-provoking because it actually opened my eyes to what the patient feel about the restraint room and a need to change the name to a quiet room. It makes sense because no patient, at least from my experience (I work in a state-owned mental institution), wants to be put in the restraint room under 5-point restraints (straps). I believe, it will help the patient cope if the name is changed. Indeed, there has been a reduction in the use of restraints.
Reflectively, both blogs aim to promote respect for the patients and create an empathic environment.
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Cunningham, P. (2014, June 26). June 2014 President's Message [http://community.apna.org/apna/directory/blogs/]. Retrieved from http://community.apna.org/blogs/patricia-cunningham/2014/06/26/june-2014-presidents-message
Kolomeir, M. (2010, February 11). Restraint (seclusion?) room location [http://community.apna.org/apna/directory/blogs/]. Retrieved from http://community.apna.org/blogs/maureen-kolomeir/2010/02/11/restraint-seclusion-room-location
Hey...that's my goal to make you aware and empathetic through blogging....
DeleteNursing blogs are becoming quite popular. It is an area for nurses to openly express their feelings regarding practice and current health issues. Blogs allow nurses to connect with one another across the country and possibly learn new things from one another that can improve the quality of care for patients. The particular blog i found was Nursezone. This blog contained various topics from proper uniforms to loan repayment for practicing nurses. There was an array of topics that nurses could gain knowledge and comment on. Overall i believe this blog is very helpful to not only current nurses but nursing students.
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This is good info, but your assignment asked that your explore psych nursing blogs...
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ReplyDeleteOver the course of my life, I’ve embraced a number of different hobbies such as cooking, playing tennis, art, just to name a few. But none of them have changed my life or brought me as much satisfaction as blogging. In almost too many ways to count, it has changed me and the way I live my life. In fact, so much so, it has become a hobby I regularly recommend to others. I started blogging as a personal tool to journal the changes we were making as we began minimizing our possessions. But somewhere along the line, it became less about me writing the story and more about the story changing me. I also check out many blogs, I found one that caught my attention. They were discussing the Nurse’s Holistic Approach to Mental Health. It is very interesting and many of them provided good feedback about psychiatric mental health nursing. They explain how as psychiatric-mental health nurses build is something quite different: we build connections. We break down the walls that confine physical health care and mental health care to separate cells and unite the two. We have an understanding of patients’ physiological needs and their psychosocial needs. Pair that with our skills in interpersonal communication, and we present a powerful force for change when it comes to integrating primary care and mental health care. I suggest to check it out if you guys have some free time.
A Nurse’s Holistic Approach to Mental Health by Leslie Durr, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC. http://www.psychcongress.com/blog/579586?page=2
Now this sounds like an excellent resource...thanks...I will check it out after I reply to your classmates
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ReplyDeleteI am not really used to doing the whole blogging thing but it was also just brough to my attention that facebook can be used as a blogging site. I have been on facebook since about 2010. I love it. Not really into the whole twitter thing though. I am on facebook everynow and then posting something but on Sundays you will catch me on there all day when the Ravens are playing. I enjoy reading my friends comments and lookiing at the pictures they post. I recently stumbled across http://www. allnurses.com and i found the cite to be quite ntersting. You are able to ask any question in regards to nursing and they have answers for you. I happened to inquire about critcial care and is there any easy way to learn how to read tele strips and they were very helpful lets just hope come next semester the information will be well applied.
Clients are often asked to journal...blogging is just a computer version of writing in a notebook
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ReplyDeleteI have never blog before until now; at first, I was a bit skeptical about this assignment. However, to my surprise I found it to be very interesting, while surfing the World Wide Web, I discovered how many people can place their views and issues about their mental health problems, in search for answers and a peace of mind.
In my search, I discovered a web site Healthyplace.com is one of the largest consumer mental health site on the net. They provide authoritative information and support to people with mental health concerns, along with their family members and other love ones. Mr. Gary Koplin - President of HealthyPlace.com. He was the founder of Concerned Counseling, one of the first significant online mental health counseling websites. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a BS in journalism.
One of the consumer’s stories I found to be fascinating, is the manner in which she used coping mechanism to deal with her anxiety and depression. She discovered that whenever she has free time her depression thoughts raises to the surface, so she found that writing distract her negative thoughts. With this mechanism she learnt how scare she was of the future, and that she was mourning something that has not happened yet. Her journal has helped her discover that her anxiety was pushing her too far into the future and out of the present moment.
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http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/copingwithdepression/2014/10/depression-and-writing-as-an-outlet/#more-3284
Glad you see the positiveness of this assignment...exposure
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ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to blogging, it's a new thing for me. I don't have time to blog due to my school and work schedule. Plus I would rather study, spend time doing my assignments than blogging. However, since this course requires me to blog, I have to because I know I will learn one or two things blogging. The website that I visited was created by Angela Brooks, a former burned out mental health nurse and a nurse educator with 25years of experience.
She talked about how she got tired of working as a mental health nurse because she could not spend time with her sons and husband. This made her venture into online marketing, newsletters, email and social media and later became a nursing instructor. To her, working as a mental health nursing is very stressful due to the horrendous nursing shifts. She therefore decided to become a nursing instructor.
The sponsor of the site that I visited is Angela Brooks. The site is inviting because she used some captivating words to capture the mind and gain the attention of the reader. The link to the site is http://angelabrook.com/about-angela-brooks
Burnout is real....
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ReplyDeleteThis is actually the second time am blogging and I enjoy the fact that you get to read different people’s view on certain topics or experiences. My first blog was a blog set up for the youth at my church. We had to each share our opinion on how we enjoyed the sermon and people we invited to church. It was a great way of connecting to people I saw at church but do not normally interact with. Our blog which is the second has been quite an experience. I like the fact that after coming from clinical I can actually read what happened with my mates in other clinical facilities. In a way it helps me to know what to expect at clinical and also to have a feeling that says “it is ok someone has been through this too”. I saw this blog on the internet by Rupinder Brar. He asked his fellow workers to share their ideas on children who were diagnosed with bipolar one disorder. Most people share their views on working with children who has bipolar 1 disorder; however this nurse talked about how it was difficult to diagnose one of her patients because he was for countless times ruled out as have ADHD. The sponsor of the site is American Psychiatric Nursing Association. The site was quite inviting because most of the discussions on there were quick to draw attention.
http://community.apna.org/blogs/rupinder-brar/2014/10/22/what-do-you-guys-think-about-overdiagnoses
How insightful you are....You are to be commended for reading your classmates blogs...I hoped that students would do this. It is interesting since everyone is at different locations. We can get a different perspective on the clinical experience. The blog you chose to look at sounds good and its sponsored by the APNA. Kudos to you....
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ReplyDeleteBefore the blog assignments for this class, I did have some prior blogging experience mostly on hair care or make up blogs. The blog that I found online was one that a nurse created which looks into how nurse’s can give mental health patients more of a holistic approach to care. To blog on the site you do not need to be invited and you can just post freely. The website itself was very interesting and showed how other nurses respond to patients in a holistic way rather than with a heavy usage of medication. The sponsor of the site is Leslie Durr, who is an advanced practice mental health nurse and has her own private practice. This blog shows an empathetic nurse-client relationship by the bloggers through the experiences that they’ve had with their own personal patients. For example, a blogger said that he had a patient that suffered from breathing disturbances and was oxygen dependent and by creating a therapeutic and trusting environment the client was able to open up to the nurse about being depressed and abused as a child. Also by having a good nurse-client relationship the client stated details of his abuse which included that he was suffocated and choked by his parent which significantly contributed to the breathing issues and depression. Therapeutic responses that this nurse exhibited were allowing the client to express themselves with no interruption, assessing self, and not being judgmental when hearing about the client’s abuse. The website was http://www.psychcongress.com/blogs/lmddoc/july-15-2013-1046am/nurse%E2%80%99s-holistic-approach-mental-health.
You found a great professional blog...the therapeutic relationship is so important to patient outcomes...good job
DeleteI have never blogged in my life time, that is if you discount Facebook. People now argue that posting ideas or thoughts on Facebook is blogging. However, I do enjoy reading blogs especially blogs on entertainment and beauty. This class has aroused my interest in blogging and I might be writing one in the future. I surfed the web in search of blogs on psychiatric mental health nursing, I could not help but notice that both educational and entertainment blogs on mental health nursing portrays the same stereotypes as movies about mental health. All the blogs I visited either over-exaggerated the risks nurses face in mental health nursing or had misleading information about mental health in general. One of the blogs on psychiatry mental nursing that particularly caught my interest was by Angela Brooks who has been a psych nurse for over 21 years. The blog alarmingly started like the blogs I visited earlier. It started with how dangerous mental health patients were. It went on and on about how psych patients tore nurses apart starting with black eyes, broken bones and finished them off with a twisted neck. She emphasized that since psych nurses suffer emotional and physical assaults, they deserve a fatter paycheck. However, towards the end of the write up, the blogger started to capture what psychiatric nursing was all about instead of the initial dramatization of broken arms and limbs. She talked about the unpredictable nature of psych nursing, the qualities a psych nurse should possess and a more accurate description of what psych patients were like. The write up was interesting and the site was well put together in terms of presentation. The site was inviting and pleasant to look at. The site is sponsored by the blogger.
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Brooks, A. (n.d.). The Business Incubator. Retrieved from Nurses Experiences in Psychiatric Units With High Risk of Assault : http://angelabrook.com/nurses-experiences-in-psychiatric-units-with-high-risks-of-assault
Psych nurses are often compensated for working with this population. Corrections PMH nurses make good monies. OSHA research state that Psych and ER nurses are twice as likely to be injured by a patient. Awareness, working collaboratively and early intervention is the key to safety.
DeleteBlogging has become a new trend online in recent years, however I never quite got into the trend of blogging myself. I have used other sources of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram that share few of the same qualities as a blog, such as sharing personal opinions and pictures, however I never got into the habit of writing my thoughts and ideas on an official blog. Regardless, I do believe that blogging is an interesting and great way for people to express their feelings, emotions, or general information they would like to share with others. After researching a few blogs about psychiatric-mental health nursing, I found one particular blog that stood out to me called “Time to Change” which is based in the United Kingdom, and is sponsored by the Department of Health, Comic Relief, and the Big Lottery Fund. This blog is not only public for people to share personal stories with, but categorizes each mental illness into sections, so that referring to blogs on a particular topic is easy to navigate. I really enjoyed exploring this website as it not only designates areas for blogging but explains what mental health actually is and how we can get involved – specifically directed to the younger generation. This site is inviting as it captures the readers attention with an easy-to-navigate website, colorful references and pictures, and personal, yet relatable stories shared via the blog.
ReplyDeleteCitation: http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/join-the-conversation
This is a consumer blog and not necessary focused on psych nursing. What is important about this blog is it helps to demystify mental illness. Stigma keeps mental illness a dirty little secret. Thanks for sharing this blog. Nurses can gain insight from the client's perspectives.
DeleteI never blog nor do I ever read blogs. Because of nursing school I have had to participate in blogs but that was only for schooling purposes. I have seen a few here and there and read a bit but not very interested in such an activity. So far looking up blogs for this week’s assignment has actually been interesting. I found a couple and the two are very different. The one I am going to focus on is from a site called Healthy Place. http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/
ReplyDeleteI found this blog from one of the past posts. It is bright and always being added to. It appears to have a focus and looks to be educational as well. The site does not appear to be selling anything but just a useful tool for anything and everything in mental health, from Abuse to Suicide information.
Today there was a posting discussing anxiety and talking to your doctor about medication. The author of this blog, spoke about anxiety and the need for medication but stated that not everyone needs medication. She spoke about two areas, area one was about the decision to begin or change medication and the second she provided a check list to go over with your doctor about medication.
There appears to be blogs on just about every topic in mental health. This site is bright and very inviting.
The second blog I came across was called A psychiatric nurse’s blog, looking through the windows of madness. http://leovineknight.wordpress.com/
This blog appears to be posting of short stories. I am not sure what to make of it, but it is dark, very dark in nature. The site layout is just postings, the last one was from late October. The first site I looked at was updated and infact it appears that this site or the last posting was posted by someone on the other part of the planet considering the date of the posting is tomorrow.
The psych nurse's blog is dark...good observation...I notice the nurse had links to other blogs and websites, I did like the six excellent mental health stories....
DeleteBlogging is one of the activities that interest me recently. In the past, I never used blog because I thought it is boring but now I enjoy blogging. However, Nurs 432 is the first course that enlighten me on how to blog. I also use other blogs site to learn some interesting topic. In searching the web, I found this interesting blog which is explaining what psychiatric mental health nurse can do. This blog is writing by Patricia Cunningham from American Psychiatric Nurses association. She state that, we as psychiatric-mental health nurses build is something quite different: we build connections. We break down the walls that confine physical health care and mental health care to separate cells and unite the two. We have an understanding of patients’ physiological needs and their psychosocial needs. Pair that with our skills in interpersonal communication, and we present a powerful force for change when it comes to integrating primary care and mental health care. (Excerpt from April 2014 President’s message, posted on May 05 2014 by Patricia Cunningham).
ReplyDeleteAnother blog from Patricia is explaining how a potentially violent or self- destructive behavior would be managed with reduction in the use of conclusion and violent. She explained that for the past fifteen years, there has been a tremendous movement towards decreasing the use of seclusion and restraint to manage potentially violent or self-destructive behavior. Since they were originally published in 2000, the APNA position statement and standards of practice have guided psychiatric-mental health nurses in their efforts to reduce and ultimately eliminate the use of seclusion and restraint across settings at a variety of levels, from setting institutional policies to legislation. The 2000 version emphasized prevention and reduction of the use of seclusion and restraint. In 2007, the documents were updated to include best practices and clinical developments that supported successful seclusion and restraint reduction and, in some cases, elimination. The revised standards lay out important characteristics of a culture that supports the reduction and ultimate elimination of the use of these restrictive methods. (excerpt from June 2014 president’s Message, posted on June 26, 2014 by Patricia cunningham).
Web page: American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA).
Website: http://community.apna.org/APNA/Blogs
Both blogs are well done. I like to read blogs to keep up with trends in practice or to investigate if what I am experiencing in practice is something others are experiencing but there is no evidence to support what is happening.
DeleteBlog is new to me and I have never thought about blogging. But when I signed in for this blog for mental health nursing, I find it very interesting and different. It was fun and interesting to read about people experience on the first day of Psyche clinical. I am excited to read people post for the coming 6 weeks. When I was searching through the internet I find this very interesting blog called psych central. It is a very useful blog site contains information about different mental illness and their treatment; it also might be helpful for me to read for my exams. People have shared their own mental illness experiences which are quite interesting to read. There is a lot of interesting facts in this blog site. The interesting thing about this blogging site is that you can do psychological tests and quizzes where you will answer all the questions about your symptoms and it gives the score of mild, moderate and severe. People can ask questions and can chat about their mental illness questions. They also have different new information and articles about mental illness on the blog. This site is run by ordinary mental health professionals. And it is owned by Dr. John Grohol, Psy.D.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.psychcentral.com/
I like the tests and quizzes...its not for diagnosing but they do screen symptoms and behaviors. I am enjoying your classmates' comments.
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ReplyDeleteI don't have much experience with blogging. To be honest besides blackboard discussion boards, I do not participate in them. The blog site I visited was created by a young lady who suffers from anxiety attacks. The site is very inviting and the domain name is very catching. She shares her techniques and offer advice to help others manage their disorder. The visitors of this blog site are very encouraging. They offered support to the creator of the blog as well as the other participants. It is clear from the postings that the visitors of this blog site are empathetic towards individuals who suffer from anxiety disorder and are very encouraging. Also, based on the comments it is obvious that the blog site is frequented by individuals who also suffers from the disorder.
http://www.anxietykilledthecat.com/how-to-calm-anxiety-the-first-steps.html
Sometimes support comes from the kindness of strangers.
DeleteGood Morning All first let me say that I finally understand how to get in each blog for the week and comment on them thanks to my classmate Crystal :) now as for Mental Health blogs on the internet its so many but one caught my eye with its page design and purpose. A Canvas Of The Minds Blog For Mental Health 2014 purpose is for those to post their experiences and stories to promote mental health education in the efforts to erase the stigma of mental health. The blog was actually started and sponsored by Tallulah "LuLu" Stark who is diagnosed as being Bipolar. The site itself is very welcoming but you have a pledge to write and all of these other instructions before you can comment in the blog.
ReplyDeletehttp://acanvasoftheminds.com/2014/01/07/blog-for-mental-health-2014/
On the blog within the instructions there is a direct link to LuLu's personal blog page where she talks about so many of her experiences not just with her mental illness but about her life. The latest entry was about her finding out she has high cholesterol despite her weight and eating habits and realized she had to chalk it up to genetics. Affectionately named Sunny With A Chance of Armageddon.
Deletehttp://sunnywithachanceofarmageddon.wordpress.com/
Glad you found us...something about "Crystals..." (lol)...Blogging has replaced journaling in practice for those who have access to the internet. We want to get rid of stigma and be supportive and in still hope.
DeleteI do not currently use regular blogging besides the one required for this class. I used to do a form of shorting blogging using my twitter account, but have not kept up with it in years.
ReplyDeleteAfter doing some web surfing I found an Interesting site Sponsored by A Canvas of the Minds Titled Blog for Mental Health 2014. It is a site first established by an individual named Tallulah “Lulu Stark, a recovering alcoholic (as disclosed by her personally in her individual blog) who created the blog to allow others to share their own thoughts and personal experiences with mental health.
The site was very inviting and encouraging to those who may have had a great story to tell. There were many areas for people to post comments and start their own blogging experience.
A note from the sponsor:
“I pledge my commitment to the Blog for Mental Health 2014 Project. I will blog about mental health topics not only for myself, but for others. By displaying this badge, I show my pride, dedication, and acceptance for mental health. I use this to promote mental health education in the struggle to erase stigma.”
http://acanvasoftheminds.com/2014/01/07/blog-for-mental-health-2014/
Will we be penalized for posting a website someone has already used, I did not notice a classmate of mine had already found this link until after posting.
DeleteNo....your critique is your own
DeleteThe "test" is your "testimony." Telling your story often helps some one in need or going through some trauma. That is why reformed alcoholics make great alcohol counselors.
DeleteI love to read blogs because I like to know someone's personal thoughts about a subject. I usually like to read celebrity gossip blogs or nursing blogs. Nursing blogs are interesting because they give you a glimpse of what nursing is like. At first I didn't think healthcare workers and blogging would be a good combination because of the possible HIPPA violations. The mental health nursing blog that I found was "Mental Health Nurse in the General Hospital". The author does not work on a Psychiatric Ward, but he is the hospital's mental health Liaison. He stated that he mostly care for clients that are experiencing grief. I love the fact that nurses can expand on any position.
ReplyDeletehttp://meta4rn.com/2014/06/01/clnurse/
The PMH liaison position is usually the first position to go when the budget gets cut. There is a need for this nurse to help nurses on the non-psych floor with developing a plan of care and provide for safety.
DeleteThis my first time engaging in blogging on the internet. It quiet interesting on how people sear ideas about their personal experience. People have different view about mental health, so it very difficult to examine their experience. In our modern world today, mental health have come a long way due to technology and modern medicine. The mentally ill population today are more acceptable in our communities today than before. The web site I find is design by healthplace.com sponsor by the American Mental Health Channel. www.healthplace.com/blogs. This blog is created for people who have relative or have care for someone with mental illness to sear their personal experience.
ReplyDeleteI find this blog very helpful for lay persons.
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ReplyDeleteCurrently, the only blog websites I use are Facebook and Twiiter. I use facebook to keep in contact with family and friends and I sometimes post silly things. Twitter, is for the most part a mini diary. I post what I feel (within reason), things I do not want my family to know. I do not let any relatives follow me on twiiter and I keep my profile private. I started my facebook the night of the snow storm “Snowmageddon” in early 2010. I created my twitter profile during my first fall semester here at Coppin State during the same year.
I found an interesting blog on psychiatric-mental health nursing. It is called "Psychiatric Nurses Often Work In "War Zones" But It's Worth The Risks." In this blog, a nurse gave her opinion on an author’s perspective of how forensic psychiatric patients were treated by their CO’s and by health care workers. According to the author, CO’s are known for mistreating psychiatric patients, and the nurse said that she understood why. She shared that she saw two of her fellow nurses and a few security officers get bloodied unexpectedly by a patient with a mental illness. It clearly frightened her, and she had a hard time going to work the next day and be on the team that cared for this patient. Although that is not what a person expects to hear from a nurse who is “supposed” to care for all people, she was being honest with her self and the person who wrote the book. A nurse must know him or herself before she can expect to truly make a difference in patient’s lives.
References
Earley, P. (n.d.). Psychiatric Nurses Often Work In “War Zones” But It’s Worth The Risks. Retrieved from http://www.peteearley.com/2013/08/09/psychiatric-nurses-often-work-in-war-zones-but-its-worth-the-risks/
I found the site very inviting and well made. It is an individually made site and has no sponsors.
DeleteUnfortunately, this is one of the drawbacks of working in psych. The nurse was experience PTSD. Most agencies will send the nurse for counseling and provide support to intergrate back into the workplace.
DeleteI am not a blogger at all, other than the blogs I have had to do for some of my classes.
ReplyDeleteI don’t typically read blogs if I can help it, because it’s all just a bunch of random people’s opinions, and everyone has one.
Once I become a nurse maybe I will start following blogs to get some expert opinions that can help me with my career.
Upon my search for this week’s blog I came upon: nurseratchedsplace.com, and after seeing One flew over the cuckoo’s nest this semester I had to click on it and see what it was all about.
This blog is from an older woman who goes by the name Mother Jones RN. She has been a nurse for many years and is now a psych nurse. Her posts are always upfront, blunt, entertaining and educational. The page is very easy to navigate, user-friendly and has lots of links to other blogger friends of hers. Some of the sponsors include Johnson & Johnson and Acuvue Lenses.
The one specific blog I read was on “Pearls of Wisdom from an Old Psych Nurse”. http://www.nurseratchedsplace.com/2009/05/pearls-of-wisdom-from-an-old-psych-nurse/ This blog gives 5 “pearls” to help nurses when dealing with psych patient.
Pearl # 2 really hit home with me.
“Pearl of wisdom #2: The second pearl of wisdom has to do with the myth that nurses can say something wrong to a psych patient.”
The first day we had to sit down and talk to clients I told Professor Hart that I was so nervous because I did not want to say the wrong thing. I was spending so much time trying to remember the therapeutic communications fundamentals we learned in class that I forgot about just being a person.
The other “pearls’ included; Don’t take abuse from a patient, Don’t turn your back on a patient, Don’t be offended if a patient hates you and finally, Remember that you are a REAL nurse.
Like the pearls...the best way to connect with a patient is to smile and say hello, engage the patient in an activity, offer them something to eat or drink and you are in. Oh yeah, call them by their name. You do set the tone for the relationship.
DeleteI need feedback from the class on your current usage of Blogs. Check out blogs on the net to see what others think about psychiatric-mental health nursing. Cite the web address and comment on the blog. Who is the sponsor(s)? Is the site inviting?
ReplyDeleteI grew up reading print newspapers and books, so I consider myself a bit old-fashioned when it comes to embracing modern technology, such as social media. It is therefore telling that I have had little to none experience in writing blogs. I however do come across blogs when searching for online articles. My attitude towards blogs and blogging is that they are unregulated forums and anybody can throw into the mix anything that comes to mind, without bothering to verify facts and project a balanced tone.
Nevertheless, I have realized that I cannot forever resist the winds of change, if I have to remain relevant in modern day communication. I believe that one needs to carefully select the kind of blogs they want to participate in, so as to maintain a sense of control and professionalism. Blogs are also a good way to express feelings and values without feeling inhibited or constrained.
I came across a blog whose writer was candid enough to convey his uncertainty and (some) trepidation as a mental health nurse. The blog web address is http://www.nursingtimes.net/student-nursing-times/why-are-we-so-scared-of-mental-health/5039966.blog. The blog is sponsored by Nursing Times, an online nursing journal. The blogger, Adam Roxby, posts his reflections under the title “Why are we (nursing students) so scared of mental health?” He argues that the fear of mental health can stifle a student’s ability to fully engage with the patient when providing care. He gives an example of a situation that left him feeling inadequate after a patient who was grieving the loss of a loved one and took an overdose of painkillers and excessive alcohol, was admitted to a facility at which he was doing his clinical rotation. The blogger says that if the patient had been suffering from a somatic illness, he would have been able to better follow the natural progression of the disease and know what to do. Other people responded to his blog, some identifying with his dilemma and others offering suggestions. I therefore think that a blog is a good way to ventilate and also brainstorm on issues. The blog page was neither too attractively nor too dully presented; it just looks like a regular web page, and Roxby has added a picture to his byline.
Blogs are a way of self expression. I like the comments by Adam. Students are naturally afraid of the mental health environment. It takes several weeks to feel acclimated and then the experience is over.
DeleteI’m not much a blogger…unless Facebook is considered a blog; I do use Facebook often, and I enjoy it. In searching for psychiatric-mental health nursing blogs, I came across quite a few. I was not quite sure about what a blog was until now. It seems to be a place for people to just simply express themselves…whether it be personal opinions, activities, or experiences; this is what led me to thinking that Facebook was indeed a blog. Anyway, I came across the website http://leovineknight.wordpress.com/ which is sponsored by Leovine Knight. The blog is titled A Psychiatric Nurse’s Blog: Looking Through the Windows of Madness. This one stood out most to me because it was so dark. The background is black, and the words are colored in orange and smoky gray. I really love horror movies, and mysteries…and Halloween is one of my favorite holidays so maybe this why the site was so inviting to me. This blog was not like the others I came across. This one had short stories posted, and as I read, I noticed that the stories went together. And the story goes back a long way. It appears that Leovine Knight writes parts of the story in her free time because some publications are days apart, some are weeks apart, and others are months apart. I thought it was very creative and different…plus, what I did read was very interesting. I think you guys should check it out!
ReplyDeleteThis blog must have a lot of hits. Several of your classmates talked about this blog. Each student identified it as dark. I spent some time reading her poems/stories. I actually liked her resource materials and links.
DeleteI was going to say that I have never actually blogged, but then quickly realized how Facebook and Twitter can be considered blogging. Although I am not on Facebook and Twitter everyday, I find it very intriguing to see what people have to say. Blogging seems like a great way to gain insight on someone else's thoughts, opinions, beliefs, values, etc. about various topics. After looking through various blogs before publishing this post, I say that blogging definitely serves more than one purpose. It can be used for entertainment or for educational purposes (such as this), or a way for people to express themselves as a way of venting, or through stress relief; you name it. I actually found a blog titled "20 Commandments for Mental Health Workers," on the blogspot. The website is http://20commandments.blogspot.com/2012/04/20-commandments-for-mental-health.html. The 20 commandments consists of rules of life for the mental health nurse, but in all actuality they are rules of life for ALL nurses. One in particular states "Thou shalt inspire and support your colleagues to make mental healthcare as good and friendly as possible and ask and give feedback on a regular basis to become a ‘winning team’." This is not something that is always experienced from between nurse to nurse and if it was maybe, just maybe nursing in all areas would be drastically different.
ReplyDeleteThe Publisher, "NurseWithGlasses," states that she posted the commandments "to encourage other mental health workers to make mental health care a good place to be in difficult times, and to help spread the word." I think that you guys should check it out and print it out!
I love the 10 Commandments for Mental Health Workers...just printed them for colleagues...Nurses still eat their young and their old...it would be nice to have nurses who inspire and support their colleagues...maybe we can start a trend and pass it forward
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ReplyDeleteI found the blog Storied Mind, I found that the blog was very good it mostly blog about people with depression. Most of the bloggers share their stories about how they battle with depression on a day today basics. The blog help people to identify signs and symptoms of depression and it give people suggesting on how to fight though depression. I think the site is very encouraging, to me it gives people hope that they can overcome depression. One blogger said “the hardest thing sometimes with depression is getting out of bed, but with the right tools and strategies you can do it”. I think by reading the different posts a person can find some good suggestions to help them beat depression. The person who started the blog is a man name John it didn’t give his last name. But John started the blog back in 2007 and he blog his personal experience with depression. John blog was chosen by the psych central twice as a top ten blog site to visit for depression. I think if one has the time they should check it out.
Depression is a very debilitating disorders. The good news is that its one of the most highly treatable mental illness.
Delete1) Current usage of blogs
ReplyDeleteI currently do not have much experience with blogging. I have visited different nursing forums online and have posted my views along side others’ but I am not sure if this is also considered blogging. If not, I have no experience at all with blogging.
2) What do others think about PMH nursing?
According to the blog I visited, psychiatric-mental health nursing is as broad a field as others, with much to explore. It seems to be a field where the nurse can observe both the patient’s growth and their own growth while in practice. The field is portrayed as a very enjoyable one! Med-Surg skills are also discussed as a normal part of the psych-mental health nurse’s function.
3) Web address and comments on the blog:
The web address of the blog is http://www.rncentral.com/blog/2012/as-a-psych-rn-its-assess-the-vibe-not-the-vitals/
I think the blog is very, very insightful and well organized. I love the way the author openly shares about her experiences in psych-mental health nursing, how she entered the field, as well as useful tips for nursing students who are interested in the field. Not only does the author add these personal qualities to her blog, but there are also interesting articles within the site such as “Nurses are on the Frontlines for Combatting Child Abuse,” and “In Nursing, It’s All About Safety.”
4) Who is the sponsor? Who is the blog inviting?
Jennifer Olin is sponsoring the blog. The blog seems to be inviting others who are currently practicing in the field of nursing. Not only so, but the blog seems to be recruiting both new and old nurses who may be considering psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Jen is a hoot....I thoroughly enjoyed her responses to questions about psych nurses....
DeleteIn keeping with technology, this course will begin exploration of psychiatric nursing among blogs on the World Wide Web. I need feedback from the class on your current usage of Blogs. Check out blogs on the net to see what others think about psychiatric-mental health nursing. Cite the web address and comment on the blog. Who is the sponsor(s)? Is the site inviting?
ReplyDeleteI am not really familiar with blogging as this is something that I did not do until I had to do it for this class. I am not a blog reader either. When searching on the web, I found many blogs on the American Psychiatric Nurses Association website. One that stood out to me was one written by Amy Picolo. The purpose of her blog is to provide a place where people can talk about managing opiate withdrawal for medical patients with heroin/or other opiate addictions, more specifically how nurses and physicians can solve certain problems that may arise when working with patients going through opiate withdrawal. The site is not as inviting as other sites I saw as I was searching the web. It doesn’t seem to be fun and festive, but is informative and makes you think.
http://community.apna.org/blogs/amy-picolo/2014/09/14/managing-opiate-withdrawal-for-medical-patients-with-heroinor-other-opiate-addictions
This would be a blog worth viewing by OB, ER and Med-Surg nurses too...Opiate withdrawal management is needed in all disciplines of nursing
DeleteIn all honesty I do not blog or am I not subscribed to a blog. The closest thing that I come to a blog is Facebook or when one of my friends on Facebook post a blog‘s link about a particular subject I may find interesting.
ReplyDeleteSite the web address: http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/
Who are the sponsor(s): I believe the medication company “Latuda” are the sponsors
Is it inviting? Yes, it is very inviting; it touches the different aspects and concerns that come with mental health disorders. It deals with both the concerns of the patient living with mental health disorders and the concerns of the families who have loved ones with mental health disorders. Once you visit the website to the left there is a list with various mental health disorders to read about, it’s an easy read, interesting to follow along, and most importantly it is operated by trained professionals. I will revisit the blogging site in the near future because I it could possibly help towards the final exam. Lastly what I found most on the blogging site was that it had a mood tracker, to monitor those who are depressed and may attempt suicide to get immediate help.
I like how the site has the blogs organized by topics...makes it easy to participate
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ReplyDeleteIn keeping with technology, this course will begin exploration of psychiatric nursing among blogs on the World Wide Web. I need feedback from the class on your current usage of Blogs. Check out blogs on the net to see what others think about psychiatric-mental health nursing. Cite the web address and comment on the blog. Who is the sponsor(s)? Is the site inviting? I do not have any experience with blogging, in fact, I have never view anyone’s blog before. While searching for blogs on the web I came across this interesting blog called Psychiatric Nurse’s blog, Looking Through the Window of Madness. This blog is about nurses experience with mentally ill client, they write their experiences in poems addressing the many problems they face.
http://leovineknight.wordpress.com/page/23/
This seems to be a popular blog among your classmates.
DeleteMy prior blogging experience is minimal at best. Prior to being asked to participate in the blog for this class the most I'd done is read a few blogs here and there. Mostly stuff on food and entertainment. When I searched for blogs on Psychiatric nursing they were plentiful. The blog that caught my attention most was a blog called: A Nurse's Holistic Approach to Mental Health. The blog was developed by Leslie Durr, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC after realizing in her own personal clinical practice that holistic care in mental health nursing was critical because often psychiatric patients are mislabeled with somatic complaints. I found this blog to be very inviting, there was a range of posts from nursing students like me to doctorate prepared health professionals, its free to sign up, post and offers very insightful stories and information. The blog can be found at:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.psychcongress.com/blogs/lmddoc/july-15-2013-1046am/nurse%E2%80%99s-holistic-approach-mental-health
This is a good site with lots of neat info
DeleteCurrently, I do not use blogs at all. I am familiar with them but never really use them or even read any for that matter. I do, however, believe that blogs are a great way to share ideas or express your thoughts and receive feedback on. It can be a helpful venting source and a great way to spread useful information. One blog I found is sponsored by Littman Stethoscopes, Proliability, and the Children’s Hospital for Los Angeles. The link for the blog I was interested in and commented on is: http://allnurses.com/psychiatric-nursing/things-i-wish-948313-page4.html#post8212303
ReplyDeleteI do not like the popups associated with AllNurses...it takes away from reading all the comments
DeleteThrough surfing the web on the topic of psychiatric-mental health nursing blogs, I’ve gotten fascinated by the many variety of blog sites that pertain to it. An interesting one I’ve found is A Nurse’s Holistic Approach to Mental Health. The web’s url is http://www.psychcongress.com/blogs/lmddoc/july-15-2013-1046am/nurse’s-holistic-approach-mental-health.
ReplyDeleteNurse Durr, PhD speaks of nurses are the best champions for patients with mental health illness because they have knowledge to be able to view the client holistically. Incorporating the client, their other physiological processes, their environment, and the issue at hand. This knowledge base is unfortunately not the norm for social workers, psychologists, or psychologist. Nurse Durr gave a scenario where she was able to deduce that a client’s depression symptoms were worsened by their low sugar level, since this particular also had diabetes in addition to other ailments.
The sponsor of the site is the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education, LLC, an HMP Communications Holdings Company.
The site is inviting to all practitioners of mental health who can attest to the importance of viewing the mentally ill client from a continuously holistic perspective.
I just visited this site...Her blog is housed in Psych Congress. will bookmark to revisit...I read to a article attached to her blog about a quick assessment for delirium...I would recommend this site.
DeleteBlogs are always very interesting to read. They are often uncensored and unapologetic so that the reader can get a full picture of what the author is seeing or feeling. However, because this particular blog is an assignment and will be reviewed by a professor for a grade, some people might be a little biased but I hope that’s not the case. Writing this blog is not my favorite thing but I don’t really mind either. I would rather be writing about my personal clinical experience so that I can express my feelings on a weekly basis and also read the experiences of others who are at different clinical sites. While researching blogs, I found http://leovineknight.wordpress.com/tag/mental-health-nursing-blog/. From first glance, I wouldn’t say that the blog is inviting. The background looks like a DVD cover for a horror movie and the main color in the background is black. I’m not sure about other people but I don’t like horror movies so I would not be interested in reading this blog if I leisurely came across it. When I started reading, I realized that a majority, if not all, of the posts were written as poems describing her many experiences. This wasn’t quite what I expected but it made reading some of her posts very interesting.
ReplyDeleteAnother of your classmates, also found this site...it is gothic and dark, her reference site had some interesting articles.
DeleteI don't use blogs at all however I do believe its a good way for people to vent and voice their opinion freely. Also I believe that its a good way to bring people together who may be experiencing the same thing and can serve as support for some. I also feel like blogs are good because you can keep it confidential which allows people to be really honest about what theyre going through without fear of being judged. The blog that I found was about insomnia....http://serialinsomniac.com/
ReplyDeleteWe, as nurses, encourage writing to help identify feeling states of our clients
DeleteI do not have any blogging experience, but as a child I kept a diary for many years. I find it interesting to look back at it now because it seems as if I was a completely different person. I could not imagine blogging about my personal life because I am a fairly private person, I do like to come to this blog and read the thoughts of my classmates since we have been on this journey together for almost two years. A mental health nursing blog that I found interesting was "Mental Health Nursing". It is a blog that I found on Tumblr. It is interesting because it has tons of Mental health memes that made me laugh, but it also had an article about what the clients feels when they are hearing voices.
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I just checked out your blog...when your meds make you feel as bad as the disorder...wow...that cuts to the core of how many patients feel about the side effects of most of the psych drugs., thanks for sharing
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ReplyDeleteI have never done blogging until now the only blog I’m familiar with is tumblr. It seems to be very popular among people my age. I seen a blog from this website: http://www.anxietykilledthecat.com/how-to-calm-anxiety-the-first-steps.html this blog talked about anxiety and how to bring down anxiety levels and panic attacks. It offered helpful tips and other people commented on the blog about how much it helped. This website was inviting. Anyone can comment and provide feedback. I'm not completely sure whose the sponsor but the author is Ashleigh a women who suffers from anxiety and depression.
Just clicked on the link. The page is very soothing. Soft colors, nice kitty and factual information. The author of the blog is Ashleigh James, she has copyright for name anxietykilledthe cat.
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ReplyDeleteAfter looking for a blog that actually had comments regarding mental health nursing, I stumbled upon this blog site http://leovineknight.wordpress.com/. This blog site was not inviting at all. First of all the color scheme was orange and black. (What I refer to as the Halloween colors) At a quick glance there is a graphic that is pretty much a creepy window that you would see on a book about ghost stories. The headline under the graphic says “Looking through the Windows of Madness”
So this blog, “A Psychiatric Nurse’s Blog” has blogs with never ending quotations that as I read I almost got depressed! Then I started to think that maybe some of the patients have been writing in this blog! Then by scrolling down I just got confused because some of the blogs had stories from Mental Health Nurses about experiences with patients, then some of them just sounded like a depressing poem. I didn’t get it.
So I went to the “about” section, and found out that a nurse from England had published this web-site, along with a book entitled the same about his “humorous and cathartic” as a psychiatric nurse. (I think the rest of the bloggers missed the point)
I don’t usually blog. Sometimes I like to read other blogs but as I look through the comments and see people arguing just to pick a fight online. I can understand if someone disagrees with the blog and you post your opinion, but when there is no facts or even violent suggestions, I get over it very quickly.
This site was very popular among your classmates...I wonder if I put in the key words, psych nursing blog, would it be the first to appear. You did dig a little deeper then your peers t stumble upon this nugget that a nurse from England actually published the blog...good investigated skills....
DeleteMy only experiences with blogs consist of face book. As you should know I am horrible with the use of technology. After participating in the First Blog assignment I realized things aren't as bad as I perceived.
ReplyDeleteI currently enjoy going back in and reading what others feel. I learned
that many nurses feel that psych Nursing is very interesting. It’s good
to know that there are some Nurses that really love what they do with a passion.
I believe the site was very inviting and welcoming many have
signed in and added their thoughts on several Different nursing topics.The topic of interest to me was anxiety. How it can really take over a person's life and Interfere with a person's daily life. Sharing ways to reduce anxiety is the best way to reduce it, by remaining clam, taking deep breaths, time management, and relaxing is the most important thing.
This blogger below gave information that would promote a good client nurse relationship.
The web address is http://blogs.psychcentral.com/. Psych Central is
Owned and operated by Dr. John Grohol. The website is inviting with
Colorful pictures, games, and the option to ask questions
Yes, Miss Loretta...there are nurses who truly love what they do. Nursing should be an passion and not a job. For the Psych RN, our patients never get 100 well like in med surg. We develop a life time relationship with most because of the exacerbation of symptoms. Anxiety is at the root of most of the mental illnesses so the goal is to control the anxiety through a serious of stress reducing techniques. I do like Psych Central for its simplicity.
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ReplyDeleteI used to blog but haven't done so recently because of school. I often look at fashion, makeup, and celebrity bloggers. I found a blog on a popular nurse site called all nurses.The blog was made by a medical surgical nurse who wants to become a psych nurse. The blog was made by user name Thunderwolf but is frequented and consist of people like myself who was trying find a blog for psychiatric nursing. It has comments with valuable information for both psych and psycho social nursing although I don't know what psycho social nurses do.
These terms have been interchangeable over the years. There is a need for nurses who are multi-dimensional with both medical surgical backgrounds who work with those with major mental disorders. All Nurses is a good site for general information about nurses from all disciplines....glad you found the area where to post...:)
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ReplyDeleteI am not really used to blogging. I think it is because I do not spend alot of my free time on a computer, so i don't actively look for blogs. The sponsor for this blog was by Paula A. This blog is interesting as she talks about her time as a patient and a nurse in mental health. This blog is very inviting. There are alot of comments that are supportive of the individual. This is mostly due to the comments being checked before being allowed to be posted. I like this method as it makes sure that people do not just spout of rude and insensitive things.
I like blogs where I can control who will contribute positively and even those who can argue a point without being rude or nasty or hurtful to other readers/bloggers. Time to Change is a British blog. The Brits are progressive with blogging and publishing trends in nursing including psych nursing.
DeleteI went to the blogging site sponsored by American Psychiatric Nursing Association. Personally, I think that the blogs are educating and informative. The bloggers write on the experiences, opinions and vital information that will help other bloggers and visitors that have interest in mental health nursing. I found the site so interesting and a good avenue to reach out to colleagues and anybody that is interested. I discovered that the bloggers like what they are doing and are excited to attend conferences In order to acquire more knowledge and get current information. For instance is the blog by Brenda Marshall.
ReplyDelete“The past week has been amazing in Indiana. I believe that the APNA national conference is the best conference I attend all year. It is so packed with incredibly interesting presentations, research, posters and events that support all aspects of psychiatric mental health nursing. I had never been to Indiana and I found it to be a beautiful city with amazing art galleries and a terrific Zoo! The CPI conference in the spring will be held in Baltimore MD, and then... Next year's annual conference will be in ORLANDO!!!! Yes a Disney destination! It just keeps getting better! Our state conference is coming up in a week, and there are still 10 seats left, so if you have not registered, there is still time. It is at the Rutger's Inn on Sunday November 2 at 10:30 AM. Look at the discussion on Member Bridge for a copy of the flyer and come hear Dr. Ridge talk to us about psychiatric nursing in NJ and also provide us with some information on Ebola. See you there!!!!”
Yes, I think the site is inviting because of the current issues that are being discussed and the opportunity given to people to comment on the postings. For instance is a posting by Rupinder Brar on the topic: What do you guys think about over diagnoses of bipolar 1 disorder in children?
“I am doing my clinical orientation with a child and adolescent psychiatrist. He is very careful with making this diagnosis in children and really thinks it is still being overused in the field. I am really curious to hear other's thoughts on this.”
Rupinder Brar
Nancy Fetlner commented on this blog on Nov. 1st, 2014 thus:
“Rupinder, I would have to agree with your preceptor. The use of this diagnosis is overworked and the kids are over medicated. We need to first look at the family dynamics, the stresses and experiences of the child, and consider looking at ADHD also. I have inherited a practice from a former NP and I feel she over diagnosed many of the adolescents with this. By using CBT, PET I believe I am changing the picture of this practice to this”
Overall, I think that the use of blog in mental health nursing is very interesting and educative.
Web page: American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA).
Website: http://community.apna.org/APNA/Blogs
I do not have a lot of experience with using Blogs, but have use blogs for school and research. I found a blog that discussed the importance of incorporated a holistic approach in nursing practice for the treatment of mental health clients. The blogs described nurse’s encounter with mentally ill patients and how they were able to assess and treat the physical and mental clinical manifestations. The blog is sponsor by Psych Congress Network that focus on keeping mental health professional on the latest current news and research breakthroughs. The site was very inviting and help to capture the personal experiences of psychiatric-mental health nursing. The users of this blog strongly feel that the nurse-client relationship as very important element needed to provide quality care. One of the participants Leslie Durr ,PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC stated, “Boundaries are a crucial element in patient-nurse interaction because they recognize the inherent power differential of the relationship and set a structure for the relationship, providing a consistent, predictable frame for the therapeutic process”. I planned to use this blog to help me gain a better understanding in mental health and use blogs to capture my experience as a mental health student nurse.
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I have never blogged before. I was never interested in blogging. Although I do read celebrity blogs. I found a blog called Healthy Place.com. it is the largest consumer mental health blog. They have a weekly live mental health show, as well as information on psychological disorders, psychiatric medications, an online mental health social network, online psychological tests, Healthy Place TV. The employees are journalists who specializes in writing health articles and they are reviewed by their Medical Director, Dr. Harry Croft. Some of the psychological disorders are Anxiety, Bipolar disorder, Eating disorders, Gender-GLBT. The site stated in 1999 and their goal is to provide trustworthy information and useful resources for understanding, preventing and seeking appropriate treatment for mental health conditions. They also have a Healthy Place Moody Tracker, it is a mood journal that helps people with mood disorders track their mood as well as notify their doctor, family members and therapist when their depression or mania elevate. It is privately held company. Gary Koplin is the president of the company, Dr. Harry is the medical director and Patricia Avila is the website manager and editor. The site was very inviting. The blue background with the clouds were relaxing.
ReplyDeleteI am not into blogging but I am fascinated when I read blogs by other people and now that it is required by the course, I have to be an active participant.
ReplyDeleteThe blog I read for this assignment was sponsored by American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) http://community.apna.org/APNA/Blog. While going through the blogs, I stumbled on this blog on mental health of partners of veterans with combat-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.(PTSD)
The blog presents the mental health of veteran partners living with veterans with combat- related posttraumatic disorder (PTSD). It indicates that living with a veteran with PTSD affects the psychological well- being and health outcomes of a veteran partner. A range of mental health concerns exists among veteran partners living with veterans with PTSD.
Domestic violence in the military is a public health matter. It has been connected with increased visits for medical treatment in the primary care and emergency settings. It is unfortunate because partners are vital to the continuity of care for veterans with PTSD. They provide critical information to mental health providers about the veteran’s PTSD symptoms and are central to the veteran’s treatment for PTSD. Despite their involvement in the care of veterans, their own mental health needs have been unacknowledged and overlooked. Some strategies were however suggested to improve and enhance the partner’s mental health.
Using movies to help assist students with learning different aspects about mental health can be a good thing but also a bad thing. Before watching those movies in class, I thought of mental health patients as those crazy patients with the “crazy eye” look, strapped in a white jacket with buckles and wheeled into rooms. After watching the movie Snake Pit we were shown mental health patients that did not look like the typical crazy person, but still could have the voices in their head. So with that movie, we were taught that a mental health patient can look like the average person. Also watching the movies helped me to get a better understanding of a mental health facility such as in the movie One Who Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest showed us how the mental floors might look. Most of the facility is an open area with sectioned out rooms such as day room, bathrooms, quiet rooms, and then bedrooms. Group sessions are conducted throughout the week, and usually the nurse/aids conduct them. Even though movies gave me a better outlook on the “real outlook of mental health” some movies add more fear.
ReplyDeleteWhen looking at the assignment at the beginning of the semester, my thoughts about Blogs were based on information that i heard. Up until this point I did not have much experience blogging personally; and only have visited blogs of people based on my interest. Usually they have been car blogs, poodle blogs or student nurse blogs for success in the programs and other peoples strategies. Usually these interactions were expedient and without further investigation.
ReplyDeleteLooking on the web for blogs for mental health nursing was eye opening. Below are the sites i visited and short descriptions about each respective blog
Nursing Times - http://www.nursingtimes.net/student-nursing-times/why-are-we-so-scared-of-mental-health/5039966.blog
This blog was about why nurses were scared of mental health nursing. It was interesting to see the comments about dealing with patients who have a borderline diagnosis. The comments were helpful for anyone who was not familiar, or had questions about mental health nursing. Many responses addressed the stigma, or experiences, and or helpful hints. I did not comment on this blog because the registration felt like I was signing up for a mortgage. However, i would visit it again if I were interested in past experiences of others. Nursing Times is the sponsor of the blog and i don't believe it was very inviting to respond unless you were already subscribed to the Nursing Times.
2. Ben Hanniagn’s Blog - http://benhannigan.com/
This blog was exceptional. It was for psych nursing, education, policy and more. It was connected to his twitter account and clearly is updated with the latest information. This blog also seems to be very popular and user friendly. This blog is the personal blog of Ben Hannigan. The site reads at the bottom “Twenty Ten Theme Blog at WorldPress.com” I am curious of how he funds the site is funded because it is very elaborate.
Ben Hannigan is from Wales. The site also was extremely easy to post a comment. You simply add your email address and your name and comment. No registration, no mortgage application. The blog is very inviting and organized.
This was the first time I have actually looked into commenting on any blog relating to mental health. I have come to respect persons with mental health. I can understand why people with such illnesses need to hide their illnesses to keep from being stignmatized. I read the many blogs on this site and have come to read the many blogs which give me more insite on my brothers situation. The blog can be found here: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/mental-health-roundup/. I did not know that there was so many blogs around the internet talking about mental health. there must be many people, normal people who work day in and day out who actually have mental illnesses and have to cover it until they get home so they can blog about it. Iove to read and would love to get others insite as to why they feel they way they feel sometimes
ReplyDeleteCurrently, I do not follow blogs. I used to follow quite a few blogs, mostly parenting and natural hair blogs, but haven’t really since starting nursing school.
ReplyDeleteOne blog space I found is called Healthy Place.com. This is a space where there are numerous blogs titled by disorder and both healthcare professionals and person’s diagnosed with disorder can write about their mental health experiences. One of the blog authors, Holly Gray makes a comment of how she found few answers in the therapeutic process. Others are standing up mental health (which is a campaign to stand up against stigma).
These blogs are located at http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs. I found the site and the blogs to be rich in support and useful information.
Some of people who run healthyplace.com are Patricia Avila - Website Manager and Editor HealthyPlace.com; Gary Koplin - President of HealthyPlace.com, who runs the daily operations; and Harry Croft, MD - Medical Director of HealthyPlace.com. He reviews all of the articles. And some of the sponsors are AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, and Pfizer. These people have made the website very inviting, accepting and user-friendly.
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ReplyDeleteI was reading blogs by healthy place Americans mental Health Channel that has a lot of information and experience exchange and, i came across Dr. Musli Ferati saying. I looked at my two days experience at the psych.unit and my job experience working with Althizyamers; indeed one has to offer empathy, compassion to this pt.
Dr Musli Ferati says:
July 1, 2012 at 12:53 am
Yes, right You are! Empathy as genuine and affectionate emotional experience give rise our humane being and ennoble our character. Without this pro-social feeling feature, the world would been an arena of wild beast blood-suckers. But in real life the sense of empathy is often overloaded with anti-social feeling and activity that are primary responsible factors to scornful interpersonal relations.When it is about to mentally ill person and its social well-being, the matter grow up at the more compassionate level, because every mentally ill person, besides its mental disorder has got the burden of stigma as crucial anti-humane attitude. Therefore, it is preferable to install a virtual understanding toward this feeble and delicate category of population, that have got double psychic suffering: one from itself psychopathology and the other from ironic and disdain conduct of people toward its tender psycho-social state. Surprisingly, these suggestion are of great value for mentally health subjects that should to face with many contradictory psycho-social situation along their exciting and dynamic daily life.
http://thehappyguy.com/about/
ReplyDeleteThis blog was founded by David Leonhardt. He aspired to be a motivational speaker. The blog is centered around achieving self actualization, building self esteem, and achieving happiness. I would say the site is inviting. It appears happy and positive.
I do not use blogs at all. I know the bare minimal about them. In researching mental health blogs I found one at this link: http://serialinsomniac.com/blogroll/schizophrenia-psychosis/ . This blog was created by a women who was first diagnosed with depression then was later diagnosed with being bipolar type 2 and most recently diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. In the about the author section you learn that the blog is an outlet for her emotions. She greatly encourages people to join her post and even suggest some of these mental health blogs.
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http://werehorse.blogspot.com/
http://floridlymad.blogspot.com/
http://schizosomething.com/
http://www.aschizophrenicandadog.com/
http://rielouise.wordpress.com/
http://www.suicidalnomore.com/
http://randomschizogenius.wordpress.com/
But back to the original blog I found, she talks about her everyday life. People generally respond to her blogs with great interest. They question her about her thoughts when she makes certain actions. Also sometimes the author jumps from topic to topic and many of the bloggers constantly have to ask her to go back and explain something.
There are no sponsors for this website but it is very inviting ( as long as you don’t like a lot of cussing.
I have never used blogs before this assignment. It's just something that does not catch my interest. I can see how blogging can be helpful when posting my thoughts and reading other people's. Sometimes when I search things on google, blogs will pop up. I do occasionally read people's answers for addition feedback.
ReplyDeleteI did check out some blogs concerning mental health nursing on the internet. The one that caught my attention is called Nursingtime.net.
It seemed interesting because it was much more than just a blogging site. It contains news letters and information pertaining to many nursing topics. It also has an area designated for nursing students. Though it seems to be very informative and accessible, it is not very inviting at all. Everyone has to pay a fee to subscribe and gain access to the articles and blogs.
The sponsor of the site Nursing Times and the web address is:
http://www.nursingtimes.net/
This experience blogging has been my first exposure participating in a blog site. I always wanted to see what blogging was all about because I love the idea of sharing thoughts and experiences. I have a few friends that have started their own blog sites. For mental health I think blogging has been a great way of sharing our clinical experience especially since this has been my first time working in a psychiatric facility. When I searched the web I was also surprised about how many blogs there are and there are so many about just about any kind of topic. I actually came upon some interesting information on http://psychcentral.com/blog/ which is the world of Psychology website. I found some interesting topic that I would love to revisit after this semester when I have some free time.
ReplyDeleteI HAVE BLOGGED BEFORE JUST NOT FOR MENTAL ISSUE. I ENJOY BLOGGING BECAUSE IT IS A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE AND IT IS VERY HELPFUL WITH GETTING THE INFORMATION THAT YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR. FOR MENTAL HEALTH, I THINK ITS A WONDERFUL IDEA BECAUSE IT IS A WAY FOR YOU TO LEARN DIFFERENT THINGS AND GAIN KNOWLEDGE FROM OTHER PEOPLE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. THE BLOG SITE I USED WAS http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/speakingoutaboutselfinjury/
ReplyDeleteAND IT WAS ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WAS TALKING ABOUT SELF-INJURY AWARENESS.
In the blog that I have found, the topic is "Why are we so scared of mental health", student nurses defends the sugnificance of psychiatric nurse awareness and how it is relevant no matter what unit one decides to work on. I found this blog to be interesting because in many mental health blogs people are often blinded by the stigma and fear the idea of dealing with a mentally ill person. This blog was found on nursingtimes.net (http://www.nursingtimes.net/student-nursing-times/why-are-we-so-scared-of-mental-health/5039966.blog), you must register to blog.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the blog, It was warm and welcoming,the word selection was chosen cautiously and everything said was full of purpose. This blog was an open discussion to discuss, the possibility and even a suggestion of using an holistic approach to medicine rater than always medicating a patient, there is other ways. Sometime the thought are all in there head, so alternative ways may assist in making the client feel as though they are getting treatment without necessarily getting treatment. Placebos may even be a good idea.
http://www.psychcongress.com/blogs/lmddoc/july-15-2013-1046am/nurse%E2%80%99s-holistic-approach-mental-health
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ReplyDeleteI have no prior experience with mental illness professionally but now that I am taking this class I realize I have had a few relatives that suffered from mental illness. I now understand more of what they were going through. The mental health setting that I have been assigned to is much different than I expected. I was thinking it would be more like a hospital and the patients would be in rooms. I expect to leave this experience with a better understanding of how people with mental illness are treated. I am concerned that one of the patients may try to harm me or another student. My personal goal is to be able to understand and be able to work with a person with mental illness and not be as uneasy as I was on my first clinical day.
ReplyDeleteI found an interesting blog written by an American registered nurse with 30 years of experience. The aim of her blog, http://patricemfoster.com/about-patrice-foster/, is to be a resource for children and adolescents suffering from mental illnesses. The blog is inviting as it opens with a peaceful image of the ocean with an inspirational quote headlining each page. Each entry is lined with empathy and encouragement for readers to express themselves and not just suppress their problems. The author urges readers to figure out whether they need help in the first place and then to go and get it. This is important because many teens may not even realize that they are suffering from a mental illness, so if they do a search on the web and find this nurse's blog, they will be able to get advice from a healthcare professional. The blog appears to be self-sponsored by the author. I left a comment thanking her for offering a resource for young people to go as they might initially be too nervous to talk to parents or teachers about concerns. The blog is up-to-date and well maintained, and the blogger is credible, so this was definitely a good find.
ReplyDeleteI read a blog created by a registered nurse to encourage and empower other mental health workers. Her goal is to encourage mental health workers to have a holistic ability to take care of their patients from all aspect of life since mental health workers (nurses) are one of the most important people in their patients lives. She encourages her colleagues through the “20 commandments of mental health workers” to help guide them in providing holistic care to their patients. For example, the commandments I found interesting are: 1. Thou shalt respect your patient and not judge and 2. Thou shalt increase the well-being, opportunities and happiness of your patient. It was very nice of the blogger to list these commandments to help other nurses consider the simple things that can impact and mean the world in their patient lives. The sponsor of the site is blogspot.com. The link of the blog is: http://nurs432fall2014.blogspot.com/2011/09/week-two.html#comment-form
ReplyDeleteSincerely speaking I have no experience in blogging. However, I am blogging as a requirement for this course and while searching for a mental health blog, I found http://www.autismlearningfelt.com this autism mom blog was created by a stay at home mom Tammy Lessick who happened to have a son diagnosed with autism at the age of 5. the blog was created for parents that have autistic children to share their feelings and experiences raising autistic children and to encourage one another by forming a support group through the blog. What captivated my interest is that there is a little device on the blog called Tap To Talk communication skills for both verbal and non-verbal autistic children. This device teaches life skills to those with Autism.
ReplyDeletethe web address link is www.autismlearningfelt.com/2009/10/tap-to-talk.html it is self-sponsored by Tammy though she has an advertising space available for sponsorships, paid insertions or any form of compensations. This blog uses affiliate links within the post. they are also on face book and other social networks. This site is very inviting and touching especially after reading the experiences of some of the bloggers.
I have read other people’s blogs in the past but have never really blogged on my own besides for a class. I did a search for psychiatric blogs and was able to look over several different ones. The one that caught my eye the most was Healthy Place: America’s Mental Health Channel. This website is geared to mental health and offers a place to blog.
ReplyDeleteThe web address for the blog is: http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/
I found the blogs that I read very interesting. Bloggers wrote about their experiences with different disorders including bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and anxiety. I found the blogs to be eye-opening because they give you the perspective from the person living with the disorder. I found it helpful to see that you can select a blog to read or comment on based on the disorder. Healthy Place is a private owned company which uses Dr. Harry Croft, a triple board certified psychiatrist, as a resource to review articles for accuracy. The site is inviting and easy to navigate.
I myself have never blogged or even read any blogs before. This class is my first experience with blogging. The blogs I came across on the web were very interesting. Two blogs that I discovered on the internet were from blogs.psychcentral.com. They were There Are Rehab Alternatives and The 10 Worst Things You Can Say To Someone In Recovery. The blog about rehab talked about considering other choices when one realizes they have a problem and are not really sure if they need rehab to fix the problem and maybe could consider an easier way. They stated its good to have options but even if they do rehab is the best way to beat addiction. I found this very interesting and I agree rehab is the best way. The second blog on the 10 worst things to say talked about how we all probably have someone in our life who is in recovery. I myself have several who are. This blogger talks about how we all have some type of addiction in our lives and with this said we should be supportive to these individuals. You want to let them know that you understand and should be sensitive and not judge. That is very good advise. I can identify with both of these bloggers. Psychcentral is sponsored by World of Psychology and its goal is focused on human behavior as well as mental health and illness and connecting it with technology. I found this easy to navigate as well as being very inviting. I plan to visit it again in the future.
ReplyDeleteI have never blogged before, but I've come across many interesting ones. I've read blogs that talk about a range of topics like entertainment, sports, politics, hair products, and even protein shakes. I believe their is a blog about everything, but you just have to find the one that interest you.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that their were so many blogs about mental illness. I came across a website called Healthy Place: America's Mental Health Channel. On this site you can explore various people telling stories about their experience with mental illness and how they are progressing through it. You can also find information about treatment, coping strategies, and even stigmatization of people with mental health issues. The few that I read were funny and informational. This site is inviting even though I think the colors of it are boring, but it welcomes anyone to talk about their issues without feeling judged. It encourages people to open up about their fears as well as their happiness.
I read a blog about a girl who has a binge eating disorder who has been a vegetarian for 6 months. Before she used to binge eat meats and now that she has changed her diet she has lost weight and is healthier. She states that even though her binge eating is still an issue she is in a happier place. I like this site because someone else seeing this one day could really benefIt from it especially if they feel like they are going through their struggle alone.
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I don't have any prior experience on blogging. I never blogged before but I came across some bloggings written by others on the web for different reasons. The blog that I found on the web is sponsored by Healthy Place America's Mental Health Channel. One of the published blog written by Becky Oberg talks about the myths and the truth on PTSD, which I thought was interesting because the she included her personal experience and others resources to support the her point on the issue. Moreover the cite includes several other interesting blogs on mental health subjects and I think it is inviting to readers and bloggers because of the several information's that are included on website.
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I have some experience in blogging. Almost two years ago I tore my Achilles' tendon jumping double Dutch. I knew very little about the injury and I researched various treatment options related to my injury. I came across a blog for people that were in the same predicament as me. There were so many different stories about people and how they injured themselves and their recovery process. This blog helped me out tremendously to know that I wasn't alone. Ive found a blog that was similar to the blog that I had been using relate to mental health called Time To Change. It's a blog about people with mental health illnesses and their stories with their diagnoses, coping skills, stigmas and stereotypes. When you can relate with someone on things that you both have in common it helps to know you're not alone and to get through it. You can learn so many things from other people's stories. This blog is sponsored by the department of health and the site is very inviting. The title and the slogan is very catchy and it makes you want to read the blog.
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ReplyDeleteI have never heard of blogging before or blogged for that mater before taking this class. But after searching on the internet, it was interesting to find that there are very educative blogs out there about mental health nursing in particular. The one that caught my attention was the blogging on MentalHealth.gov/blog website. It is very inviting and has many readings and information about mental health disorder. One of the blog read "why you should care about Mental health" explained that nearly all Americans will be affected by mental health or substance disorder in some time in their life and that mental health has been neglected in this country for decades and is worth taken seriously. I think its a good site to find information about mental health nursing and is worth following.
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The blog for this website is: http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/
What call my attention to the website is their MOTTO that says, “We believe the most important thing in a person's life is "peace of mind". To me, I believe everyone needs a peace of mind, in order to survive our daily living.
The website is very enlightening and supportive for individual suffering with mental challenges, their families, caregivers and anyone to let them know that they are not alone.
Reading through the blogs, I found so many mental illness disorders and tips to cope with them. For example: mental challenges in the 20s, PTSD, talking to children about addiction and recovery, how to cope with depression in winter season, and parent with mental illness. Some of the bloggers have experience some kind of mental illness and have the courage to talk about. I believe that sharing their stories will help alleviate the stigma surrounding mental illness in our society and around the world.
Another interesting blog is “ Stop Quitting the Things You Enjoy Because You’re Not Confident”. This blog is very true in our society and teenager’s life, some individuals have a low esteem and tend to give up too quick for one reason or another. Especially, when comparing ourselves to others or worry too much of what other think of who we are.
The site is very welcoming, extremely informative and easier to navigates. There are several tabs located at the top of the page that has subcategories of what to click. There are various resources on the website, such an NAMI, Mental Health America, non-profit and government agencies and Hotline numbers.
Gary Koplin is the president of the healthyplace.com
They have several sponsors such as:
AstraZenaca pharmaceutical, they make Seroquel (Anti-psychotic). Bristo-Myers Squibb, a global biopharmaceutical company study Abilify and Clinical Trial Recruitment, that is used to treat the symptoms of psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Eli Lilly and Company is an American global pharmaceutical company that make Strattera (treat ADHD) and Cymbalta (treats depression, anxiety, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, fibromyalgia, or chronic muscle or bone pain). Forest Laboratories is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City makes Lexapro, an antidepressant. Pfizer is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City, New York makes Pristiq (for treating major depressive disorder).
The blog I found was on nursingtimes.net and the whole website addresses issues in nursing, I found the website itself useful as it has so much content. More specifically it discusses the uncertainty that comes along with mental health. Instead of on med surg floors where we see something like low blood pressure we know what to do and how to help. With mental health it is not as concrete so we need an array of approaches for these issues like drug abuse, depression or OCD. The sponsor was a group of nurses in the UK that got together and started this website. A lot of people shared their concerns of social justice issues and disregard and stigma that goes along with the mentally ill patients in the world. They all seemed to share the same idea that it is unfortunate that the patients feel but also how others view them, along with the fact that they may not always get the treatment they need.
ReplyDeleteThe site itself was inviting, and non-threatening or overwhelming, as it was made for and by nurses for student nurses. It had a lot of topics we find relevant even though this particular post was from 2012.
'Why are we so scared of mental health?' (n.d.). Retrieved October 30, 2015, from http://www.nursingtimes.net/student-nursing-times/why-are-we-so-scared-of-mental-health/5039966.blog
This is my first time using a blog. I have used social media websites, such as, Facebook and MySpace, which are similar, but this is my first experience. As I started doing blogs for this class, I see blogs can get really busy and conversations can go on and on. A blog a came across on the Internet is https://womensmentalhealth.org/posts/screening-for-postpartum-depression-isnt-enough/#comment-462891. It is a blog about mental health issues that only involve women. I found this very interesting because sometimes women can get overlooked and I’m glad to see there is a whole blog dedicated to them. The blog is created by the Massachusetts General hospital and sponsored by Good Samaritan Foundation. The site is inviting because I was able to comment on the blog without registering. So you can freely read blogs and share your input.
ReplyDeleteI have very little experience blogging. However, as a teenager I have participated on many social networking site. These sites have given me the experience needed to be able to express my thoughts because the page belonged to me, so I was about to write what I wanted.
ReplyDeleteI visited a blog site sponsored by Psych Central, this website expressed multiple mental health disorders and what individuals thought of them. The site was very inviting, it was an easy read and was easy to follow. A very user friendly site.
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Mental Health: Blogs | Psych Central. (n.d.). Retrieved November 1, 2015. http://psychcentral.com/resources/Mental_Health/Blogs/
I don’t really do any blogging. I have read articles and blog postings when searching for topics, especially when it deals with nursing school. The only website that I notice that consistently has some type of posting is allnurses.com. Whenever I do a Google search for a nurse/nursing school issue/topic, allnurses.com always shows up in my search results. This website describes themselves as “the collective voice of the nursing community, supporting the profession by providing a place where nurses can network, share, and learn from their peers.” (http://allnurses.com/aboutus-info.html) This website has so much information for nurses at all stages in their nursing careers.
ReplyDeleteSearching through their blog posts for psychiatric-mental health nursing, brought up many postings. One post was written by Jessica Quigley, DNP, RN on “Eliminating the Stigma Associated with Mental Health Nursing.” (http://allnurses.com/psychiatric-nursing/eliminating-the-stigma-982680.html)
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ReplyDeleteI am not much of a blogger, but I do spend many hours online reading blogs. I love bloggers, the style of writing is so raw and gives such a vivid picture of whatever topic you are reading. There aren’t much blog sites on mental health. From the few I came across I thought www.psychcongress.com was a well composed website. The information presented was accurate, as the bloggers had credentials to support their points reflected on the blogs. The website’s purpose is to inform health care professionals and patients on the latest mental health clinical news. Though the collaboration with the U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress, the website is able to publish weekly or biweekly blogs to the public.
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ReplyDeleteCurrently, I do not really use blogs. Typically, when I am searching the internet I am looking for research sources and because blogs are bias I do not tend to use them. However, I have used blogs in the pass for leisure and I think they are a great tool to get conversations started and connect people with similar issues and interest.
ReplyDeleteThe blog I came across was Psych Central blogs http://blogs.psychcentral.com/. There are many blogs on a variety of different subjects. A lot, of the blogs almost seem like a personal diary for some people but this is a great thing because it gives them a way to open up and share their feelings that they may be keeping in. I commented on someone’s blog that discussed the therapist-client relationship. The site was very inviting and easy to use. I navigated the website very easily and there is a lot of available information in addition to the blogs.
I usually do not visit many blogs, but I am familiar with a few blogs in the web. I did some research about some blogs and I came across this particular one on Mental health http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/ the blog is sponsor by Healthy Place America’s Mental health Channel and the blog is an educational blog. The bloggers are professionals and also people that have mental health problems. People blog about their experiences with their mental health problems and the experts blog about new researches, and coping mechanisms that can benefit people with mental health problems.
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ReplyDeleteI have not participate in any form of blogs in the computer system. I heard about blog the first time last semester during my computer informatics class. I found a lot of website that have mental health blog, and some of the bloggers expresses their thought based on so many reasons. The website that l found interested was sponsored by the psych congress network. The blog was published by Leslie Durr, PHD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, is an advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nurse with a private psychotherapy practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.
She wrote about “A NURSE HOLISTIC APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH” using her personal experience as a psychiatric nurse as an example. She wrote on how her experience made her to apply holistic approach when caring for her client Mary who has depression disorder. She discussed a nurse’s holistic approach to mental that is different from other mental health discipline. She ended her blog by asking nurses if they have incorporated a holistic nursing perspective into their practice and how did you apply it. My comment towards this blog is that l am going to use the school holistic teaching the l have been taught in conceptual framework by Myra Levine model approach to take of my client.
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I am not a blogger I sometimes do get invitation by family and friends to visit their blog site which I do most of the time when I have the time. The blog site that I found very interesting is located at http://www.mentalhealth.gov/blog/index.html. This is U.S. Department of Health & Human Services blog site. It contains several blogs about different psychiatric disorders. It is very informative and educative. It has different blogs on major mental health illness such as anxiety disorders, mood disorders and psychotic disorders. It breaks those mental health illness on age groups too. I will recommend everyone to check out this blog site. It is also a very good site to locate available resources in the community.
ReplyDeleteI do not participate in any type of blogs. The only experience I have with blog is in this class. I have found different website which offers opportunity on various mental health topics for members who registered to their site. One of the site I visited was http://www.healthyplace.com/ and their blog website is http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/. At HealthyPlace.com, you will find comprehensive, authoritative information on psychological disorders, psychiatric medications, and other mental health treatments. Here is a welcome note from the site “Welcome to HealthyPlace.com HealthyPlace.com is the largest consumer mental health site, providing comprehensive, trusted information on psychological disorders and psychiatric medications from both a consumer and expert point of view. We have an active mental health social network for support, online psychological tests, breaking mental health news, mental health videos, a live mental health tv and radio show, unique tools like our "mood journal" and more. We're glad you found us”.
This website is very easy, fascinating and really informative. There are tabs located at the top of the page that helps the viewer with easy site maneuver. Before any articles or comments are posted, Dr. Harry Croft, who is the medical director of the San Antonio Psychiatric Research Center reviews all of the articles and comments. I was able to find one sponsored resource from healthy place website and it was AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. This company produce the drug (quetiapine fumarate) SEROQUEL XR. This drug is used to treat schizophrenia in adult and children who are at least 13 year of age or older.
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ReplyDeleteI have never actually commented in a blog, but I have read many. I find lots of interesting info reading blogs and the comments. Blogs serves as a way to see information from more than one perspective. A blog I came across was The American Psychiatric Nurses Association http://community.apna.org/browse/blogs. This blog serves as an online tool for knowledge sharing, and networking among members of the APNA. Tons of information is shared on the association's blog including info on psych nurse residency programs and employment.
ReplyDeleteOther than the blog for this course I do not actively participate in any blogs. However I do read various blogs on topics from fashion, finances, and even nursing school advice. I frequently visit www.allnurses.com a blogsite that is used for social networking between nurses, nursing students, and people that are interested in a nursing career. I was unable to find the sponsor of the site, but I was able to find the information architect Joe V. They have blogs about entrance exams, certain courses, taking the NCLEX, getting a job and many other things. The website is inviting, welcoming anyone who wants to gain information about the nursing career.
ReplyDeleteThe only blog I have ever been on is allnurses.com its website that has a open blog for nurses and nursing students. It provides a place for nurses to communicate and share information about the nursing profession. I don't think there is one particular sponsor it was started by a nursing student and developed into a peer to peer nursing site. The website was very informative and easy to navigate.
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ReplyDeleteI do have a little bit of experience on mental health; the experience I have is at my work place at the jail. This section of the jail takes care of inmate with mental health. This unit is called inmate metal health unit (IMHU). Although I would not regard myself not to be a computer savvy, but when it comes to social networking, I have no idea on what to do and how to get there. But as required I went to the blog sponsored by the American’s Mental Health Channel, on one of the blogger note, he blogged about the myth and the real truth about the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder which really drew my attention to what he was saying. He talked about his personal experience when he loses his wife to a deadly accident that almost claimed his own life too. But he explained that if not the help of the mental health hospital that he went to , it would had led to something tragic. The other blogger responded to his ailment, and the most surprising part was that there was one of the bloggers that asked the question that what is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? That means that he do not know what the disorder is and another blogger explained to him.
The webpage link is: http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/page/2/
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ReplyDeleteI do have a little bit of experience on mental health; the experience I have is at my work place at the jail. This section of the jail takes care of inmate with mental health. This unit is called inmate metal health unit (IMHU). Although I would not regard myself not to be a computer savvy, but when it comes to social networking, I have no idea on what to do and how to get there. But as required I went to the blog sponsored by the American’s Mental Health Channel, on one of the blogger note, he blogged about the myth and the real truth about the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder which really drew my attention to what he was saying. He talked about his personal experience when he loses his wife to a deadly accident that almost claimed his own life too. But he explained that if not the help of the mental health hospital that he went to , it would had led to something tragic. The other blogger responded to his ailment, and the most surprising part was that there was one of the bloggers that asked the question that what is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? That means that he do not know what the disorder is and another blogger explained to him.
The webpage link is: http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/page/2/
While I am familiar with Blogs I have not written or participated in any until now. However, I do read them. I like the concept of blogs because I am interested in another person’s perspective, when it comes to multiple topics and what that persons experience can teach me. Psych Congress (http://www.psychcongress.com) is a website that provides the latest information to health care providers and professionals. Topics such as schizophrenia, anxiety, suicide and ADHD are considered to be the top trending topics discussed on the website. The website is inviting and easy to navigate. The website's Blog spot encourages readers and bloggers to post their viewpoints and comments. The website is sponsored by The North American Center for Continuing Medical Education (NACCME).
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I am not a blogger nor am I a person who likes a lot of internet. I do have a facebook page but I'm not sure if that is considered a blog. I found this blog website http://zenpsychiatry.com/blog/ that was interesting to me because the blogger is a psychiatrist who expresses her feelings through pictures. She also talks about psychiatry with cancer. This website was very informative and made you think about life in a different way.
ReplyDeleteI am not a blogger nor am I a person who likes a lot of internet. I do have a facebook page but I'm not sure if that is considered a blog. I found this blog website http://zenpsychiatry.com/blog/ that was interesting to me because the blogger is a psychiatrist who expresses her feelings through pictures. She also talks about psychiatry with cancer. This website was very informative and made you think about life in a different way.
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