Psycriatic Nursing

rosiee

Anybody do psycriatic nursing in NUIG or know of anyone who has done it? I have it down on the CAO and would be grateful if anyone could tell me anything about it ?

efbeef

Hey! I did the general degree but hope I can help you a bit! For many modules you will be in with the general and midwifery students (medicine students for some also) and then have separate modules relate to your specialist area so ye will be alone for them. Subjects for all nursing student include sciences (e.g anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry) which you do from 1-3 years, sociology, philosophy, psychology (all not in MASSIVE detail but none the less) and then you ave your nursing based modules on what you are specializing in. There area also placement throughout the 4 years (9month placement for 4th year) in psyc I believe they rotate between acute 1st line psyc services (acute), institutions (long term patients), community day services and then support services post acute illness (la nua i think it is called). You also do a general placement along the way as well. Hope I ave helped a bit Good luck!

Raging_Ninja

I know they get danger pay if that helps... at least if/when you qualify and in the unlikely event you manage to get a job in Ireland in anything less than 5 years abroad.

You will see disturbing things - on my sister's work experience in the first week one of the patients decided it would be a good idea to stick a scissors in his neck in front of her. I'm glad he didn't decide to stick it into anybody else first.

rosiee

like good pay ? :P
Ok that's sounds kinda scary especiallly after me accepting it today :O haha Hopefully it'll be grand!

christina_x

I'm going into my 4th year in Psych nursing!
It's honestly a lovely course! That story in a previous post about the guy with the scissors may well be true.. but you only ever hear about the drama and shocking behavior of psych, you never hear about the lovely people you meet who have fallen ill and need a lot of support to recover, and most likely to rebuild their lives again. And i'm not entirely sure he should have been in a basic acute setting...
Clients who are high risk (like the guy with the scissors) are under observations - they can be checked on every 15mins 24/7, or if felt necessary, they may have a nurse with them at all times. And you have an alarm!

Oh, if the whole safety thing freaks you, you are more at risk of being attacked working a Saturday night in A+E than you are to get attacked in a psychiatric ward

rosiee

christina_x wrote: »

I'm going into my 4th year in Psych nursing!
It's honestly a lovely course! That story in a previous post about the guy with the scissors may well be true.. but you only ever hear about the drama and shocking behavior of psych, you never hear about the lovely people you meet who have fallen ill and need a lot of support to recover, and most likely to rebuild their lives again. And i'm not entirely sure he should have been in a basic acute setting...
Clients who are high risk (like the guy with the scissors) are under observations - they can be checked on every 15mins 24/7, or if felt necessary, they may have a nurse with them at all times. And you have an alarm!

Oh, if the whole safety thing freaks you, you are more at risk of being attacked working a Saturday night in A+E than you are to get attacked in a psychiatric ward

ok thanks for that
few more Q's :P
do you go on placement with others in your class? and are the placements from mon-fri?
And do you have the same social life as people doing other courses ?

christina_x

rosiee wrote: »

ok thanks for that
few more Q's :P
do you go on placement with others in your class? and are the placements from mon-fri?
And do you have the same social life as people doing other courses ?

Yeah in general you do. I am lucky, i've been on with somebody from my class the whole time, but in my last placement we only worked together one day a week so it didn't really count :P
Yeah placements are 3 days so you can work any day from mon-fri, 4th year they seem to start asking you to do a night shift or a weekend or something.

No you don't, but fock it!
In first year you're only on placement for 2 months out of 8, you'l survive I promise. Plus anyways, you work mon-wed, out wed/thurs night! You still get out, it's just not as handy!