IMH

Institute of mental health, another name for it is Woodbridge hospital.

First impression of the hospital is: wow so big & nice, the outer layer looks like resort, beautiful scenery.

Second impression in the ward: ~~~so scary, the wards are dim, plain, fenced, sad atmosphere and so many doors, a bit like jail-structured.

SWEAT~~assigned to male ward somemore~~~Mental illness look is quite worrying people.

We are told to be careful by the Clinical Instructor, Mr. Buddy, especially girls, to protect ourself from being assaulted by patients. A lot of frightening stories...

I found that nursing care is indeed important in mental health setting, the patients need to be love and care by others, especially nurses, which the nature of nursing job is to care for patients. However, in order to protect themselves from danger, there are certain range of boundaries that nurses cannot cross over them in the process of creating therapeutic-nurse-relationship.

I hope that i am safe throughout this 2 weeks posting and can meet the objectives of attachment.

-to build therapeutic Nurse-Patient relationship (TNPR)

-facilitation on milieu therapy

-to plan, implement and evaluate activity therapy (structured activity)

-Basic nursing care of clients with cognitive, emotional, perceptual & adaptive problem

Honestly speaking, caring for mental health patient is a very tough job that need a lot of patience, where sometimes u will find that ur hardship is useless and give up for that, psychiatric nursing is definitely not my choice to explore in my future career. A lot of reasons to explain that.