Wednesday, September 22, 2010

half way

Hi everyone,Placement is going well. Half way objectives well on the way to be completed. Busy our because ive NHS objectives to do too. Have 4 patients on my caseload. Have been doing a number of different interventions with them, including graded exposure, cooking session, shopping session, going to the gym, and activity group. Got to observe an AMPS assessment Monday so that was really interesting. It’s a really good assessment and it has def helped improve my observation skills. Its abit strict though.
Did my first 1;1 relaxtion session today, Iknew it would be a challenge as the patient gets very restless but he reported that he enjoyed it and helped him relax.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Mental health

hope everyones getting on well. on monday i sat in on a review of a patient. On tuesday we took a group to crazy golf and then went to ansthruther for some fish n chips (Scotlandlands best fish n chips). Today, i spent the day with another student ot and took a patient grocery shopping and then we went for coffee. Doing a nurses shift tomorow so that should help me to get to know the patients. Going to have 4 on my caseload.
Anyone any advice with working with people with schizphrenia or any good articles on how to deal with patients who are hearing voices?
talk soon :)