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11:12 AM
Posted on September 3, 2014 by cassidydoolittle in Nurse Stories
Source: http://www.mightynurse.com/snacking-on-the-psych-unit-stories/
I had come from working a year on night shift at the pediatric unit to second shift on the mental health wing. Needless to say, I had a huge learning curve.
I loved it from the first day when “Lester” swung his invisible sword over my left shoulder to protect me from an invisible dragon attack.
He was one of the sweetest men I’d met. But as I quickly found out, many men were not as kind.
When mental illness, medication reactions, or withdrawal affect a person, often incredibly shocking and unsavory things get flung the nurses’ way.
And with me being the youngest on staff and infuriatingly prone to blushing, I became a really easy target.
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