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<title>Angela Brooks - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Angela Brooks is a leading distributor of Young Living Essential Oils. Dedicated to natural health solutions, Brooks provides people with healing alternatives without harsh side effects. Additionally, Brooks is a mental health nurse committed to bringing mental happiness to the nursing profession by motivating and supporting nurses around the country.]]></description>
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<title>Out of Touch With Reality</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I wonder if there is a real baseline for what reality is. All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you are your reality. When I work with a patient who says that there are spiders crawling on the wall - and they are following them with their eyes, and pointing to them with their fingers.]]></description>
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<title>Burnout Affects More Than Just Your Nurses</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:44:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If happy nurse employees are a key component to the business world in taking care of patients. Why are employers ignoring the morale of employees?]]></description>
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<title>Nursing Leadership - How Micromanaging Can Kill the Creative and Proactive Spirit</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:15:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the day you got hired at your present job? When you got the final word that you were employed because you could serve the company with the right skills. You had what they were looking for.]]></description>
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<title>Are You Making Enough Money As a Nurse?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:16:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I had a conversation with a fellow nursing co-worker as I watched her struggling with a piece of paper she was writing on. She pushed the paper across the table and said,"Can you help me with a budget. I cannot see how I can make this amount of money work with these bills." She had a look of anxiety and stress over this month's bills that totaled way more than what was coming in.]]></description>
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<title>I'm Sorry - The Hardest Words to Say</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed how saying the simple words "I am sorry" is like pulling teeth out of a dinosaur. I am guilty, I don't say it as much as I need to and I am sure you are already shaking your head agreeing.]]></description>
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<title>Mental Illness Is Not Prejudice, It Can Happen to You</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:50:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Don't call me NUTS! Over the course of the last 20 years as a mental health nurse I have seen a lot of true mental illness issues. The staff on board, the public and even the doctors at one time or another has called some clients nuts.]]></description>
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<title>Self Abuse: The Hidden Shame</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:58:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[People who cut are not mentally ill - they are hurting and usually cover it up so no one will know. They do not try to draw attention to what they are doing. Most self abusers are trying to deal with a trauma and they do not want to die, even though some do. They will cut to trying to cope so that they can keep on living.]]></description>
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<title>Depression: Putting Yourself Last Causes Depression</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:49:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most women are doing too much, expecting too much, influenced by crap and were never taught to take care of themselves. As a mom of two handsome young men, I am guilty for putting myself last in taking care of myself and making plans for my own personal growth.]]></description>
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<title>Childhood Memories: A Lifetime Journey</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:19:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sitting in the school gym watching my son's basketball game, the whistle blows loud over the crowds cheers. The conversation lowers as everyone is listening close to hear the referees call "Foul #23 whites ball" he screams to the crowd.]]></description>
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<title>Contract Nurse: What Is the Value of a Trained Nurse</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:54:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[According to the news there is a nursing shortage in the USA. In my rose colored glasses the value of a nurse is pretty high. Specially a nurse that shows up for duty on time, provides not good but great patient care, able to follow hospital policy, board of nursing requirements, manage staff, answer questions from the doctors,be cursed by patients, pulled from a normal area to another unit to work and cover a new unit and the list goes on with the many things one person juggles.]]></description>
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<title>Ted Williams Has a Story Even As a Homeless Man</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:03:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been in a big city and observed the people that will lay on the street, hold signs for money, beg for a cigarette? Most people look at them as crazy drunk people who are scary. It is true there are a lot of mentally ill that are unable to hold a job due to their illness and lost their homes due to many situations that end up on the street.]]></description>
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<title>Seasoned Nurses: The Secret Ingredients</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:43:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today I had breakfast, with a dear friend, of over 35 years this morning. We laughed and talked like it had been just yesterday since we had been together - this time it had been over 4 years - the time before it was 10 years since we had sat in person and talked.]]></description>
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<title>Nurse Gets Clubbed by a Patient</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today was my day to get pulled to another unit to work. Getting a pulled assignment, also called floating nurses, means there was a shortage of staff in one area and a need for more coverage. So they pulled from an area that had more staffing. If there is something many nurses do not want to hear when they get to work it is, "You're floating to another floor." Floating is not uncommon in nursing; some hospitals even have float teams, or nurses who go from floor to floor as needed.]]></description>
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<title>Do Nurses Really Retire?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most people have a fantasy vision of what retirement looks like to them: sleeping late, no appointments, traveling, no more time clocks to punch, no boss, no more daily friend connections, no more kids in the house. This sounds boring to me. After working under one roof for 21 years I have witnessed many people "retire" and then return to work within 30 days because they are bored or cannot live off of half the income they were used to.]]></description>
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<title>Halloween Nurses Costume Is Not Always a Party</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:14:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Halloween is a fun time to dress up and pretend to be some weird or strange creature, and collecting good candy...most of the time way more than any kid will eat. I have dressed up as a nurse on many Halloween nights but went to the mental hospital instead of a party.]]></description>
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<title>The Amazing Power of the Human Touch</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:10:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The human needs are rather simple. People want to be loved, touched, feed and to feel safe. If you were raised in a home where this was normal, you will not be able to understand how some people actually crave the human touch.]]></description>
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<title>Night Shift Nurses See More Than Patients</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:25:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Night Shift seems to bring things out of the dark corners...or does it? Sitting on the front porch of a 155 year old building looking out across the manicured lawn - where a time capsule is buried in the front circle for the next generation to discover. I sit and wonder what it must have been like when there were 2000 mentally ill patients on the census books.]]></description>
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<title>Being a Psych Nurse: What a Career!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:55:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being a Psych Nurse has many meanings. If you're not in the field of mental health you may not understand the same as the ones who are in the industry. I always chuckle when someone ask me "what do you do" because when I tell them, their face expression always makes me laugh.]]></description>
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<title>Working Hours of Staff Nurses, Are Patients Safe?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:57:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even though they only work three days a week the sleep deprived nurse still has personal and family things to take care of on the days they work. Most nurses commute to their job at least 25 minutes one way that is 50 minutes travel time before they start working the long hour shifts.]]></description>
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<title>Demon Possession and Mental Illness</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:35:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In mental health one of the largest topics I hear are ghost, demons and crazy. I guess you could say all of these are true to describe the history of mental health in many way. When we consider Jesus' understanding of demons, however, it is really not satisfactory to suggest that He was limited by a lack of scientific knowledge. Demons, if they exist, are spiritual beings and Jesus came to bring spiritual truth.]]></description>
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<title>Learning Experience in a Psychiatric Unit</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:14:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a mental health nurse you already expect the clients to be defensive because they have an illness they are trying to deal with new medications, family problems, dealing with their life hospitalized, internal issues that cannot be seen. For example: A client could have just gotten off the phone with a family member that did not go well. You walk down the hall as the first person he sees. You will be the one that get blasted with cursing, swears, and accusations. When in fact, you had nothing to do with his call.]]></description>
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<title>What Is a Psychiatric Nurse? A Jack of All Trades</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:54:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When people find out that you are a nurse they begin quizzing you for every ailment that they have from a sore toe to what kind of medication should they take. I have literally been in the grocery store and had someone take off their shoe to show me their toe nail that looked as if it had rotted last year and they had not pulled it off. I gasp - " Gosh..ugh...you need to see your podiatrists about that". Feet are not my specialty - yuk.]]></description>
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<title>Auditory Hallucinations: Voices That Whisper, Are They Real?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:27:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The voices that speak inside someone's mind are as real as the one that is reading this story to you. Can you hear them?]]></description>
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<title>Mental Health: The Other Side of the Steel Doors</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:11:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As a young nurse stepping into mental health 21 years ago, I had no idea what to expect. I was more than a little shocked and some nights very uneasy to work on a unit of 15 patients alone. I always asked my supervisor if someone was going to be assigned with me. On an average night the answer was no. The supervisor at the time seemed to love to see your shocked facial expressions. I made sure to never let her see it on mine. She was mean and I was stubborn.]]></description>
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<title>Holiday Blues: Thanksgiving Has Been Canceled</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, it is true Thanksgiving has been canceled. I just got the memo today. Well maybe not canceled but the stress of the holiday blues started the second week of November. People seem to become so focused on what they have to do - and where they have to take food they become stressed and stop enjoying the holiday to gather with family.]]></description>
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<title>The Silent Tear, A Christmas Ornament</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:32:39 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In November, I had the unusual pleasure of interviewing a professional drug dealer. When he was discharged from the hospital every one wished him a Merry Christmas. He smiled as he made the comment, "I am sure I will be back before Christmas. My check want last very long this month since I was here - I will run out in a week."]]></description>
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<title>Nurse Interviews Professional Drug Dealer</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:16:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As he rubs his belly that is larger than normal for him, throws his head back and laughs out loud, I can't miss Thanksgiving. Over the last 6-7 years he has always been in the hospital for the holidays. Diagnosed with schizophrenia and a very long history of drug abuse. From the tender age of 12 years old he has popped pills, snorted, shot up, huffed, any kind of drug he could find. His favorite is crank. Well actually he prefers Cocaine but crank is cheaper for someone who can not longer hold any type of a job.]]></description>
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<title>Christmas Morning The Spirit of Santa Claus</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:42:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When most people think of Christmas they think of Jesus birthday and Santa Claus. The spirit that is in Christmas makes the season grand. I have had many Christmas' away from my family working as a nurse. Working to taking care of other people's family, while I miss mine.]]></description>
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<title>Addiction - Alcohol and Marijuana</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:47:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Addiction for Breakfast. He arrived in a orange jump suit, His hands cuffed. Young handsome well nourished African American with a long history of addiction problems. He was raised by a single mother who was a nurse. He did not know his father.]]></description>
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<title>Angels - The Body Guards That Walk With Me</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:01:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I have always attended. I grew up hearing about angels and how they watch over us but had never had an angel experience, until I began working in a state funded mental hospital.]]></description>
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<title>Nurses With Mental Happiness Are Contagious</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:25:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Wouldn't you like to have an illness that is not curable... well not just any illness but happiness. There are some people that are so happy you almost have to stare at them to see what is wrong with them, since that is not a normal behavior for the average person.
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<title>Blue Smurfs - Have You Ever Chased One?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:59:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Blue Smurfs are sticky on the bottom of your shoe. Have you ever tried to chase a blue smurf? They are fast, sneaky and funny, and always in trouble. Far, far away, in a little mushroom village, live a group of little blue pixies in short trousers and white bonnets called the Smurfs.]]></description>
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<title>Hershey's Kisses a Taste of Happiness</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:59:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[popular theory suggests that the possible reason for the unusual name of the Hershey chocolate Kiss comes from the machine that is used to produce the actual candy. As the machine produces each candy on the conveyor belt, a "kiss" sound can be heard.]]></description>
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<title>Nurse Stuns Superman With Kryptonite</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:59:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mental health nurses have very little protection when fighting against superman. As a mental health nurse we often come up against clients who have superman strength and have a mania that flies from zero to out of control in the matter of seconds. A young male client who is in his late 20's wanted to use his superman strength and threats to force the staff to get what he wanted that he knew was against the hospital rules.]]></description>
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