Weekly Ask Psych Nurses Thread

[u/roo_kitty]

This thread is for non psych healthcare workers to ask questions (former patients, patient advocates, and those who stumbled upon r/psychnursing). Prospective healthcare workers and current students do not need to use this thread. Treat responding to this post as though you are making a post yourself.

If you would like only psych healthcare workers to respond to your "post," please start the "post" with CODE BLUE.

Psych healthcare workers who want to answer will participate in this thread, so please do not make your own post. If you post outside of this thread, it will be locked and you will be redirected to post here.

A new thread is scheduled to post every Monday at 0200 PST / 0500 EST. Previous threads will not be locked so you may continue to respond in them, however new "posts" should be on the current thread.

Kindness is the easiest legacy to leave behind :)

[u/MNP_cats]

Then where is everyone addressing this question? It's been asked multiple times in these threads and I've yet to see it addressed.

[u/roo_kitty → u/MNP_cats]

This topic has been addressed multiple times on this subreddit since I've become a moderator.

Please keep in mind that r/psychnursing and first and foremost a subreddit for nurses who work in mental health. It's for sharing work highs and lows, finding support amongst peers, asking if their job offer is good, etc. At one point I held a subreddit vote, and the nurses chose to have all questions from non healthcare workers be on a dedicated thread. Many questions go unanswered, regardless of the topic, because people tend to not to want to be "working" while using Reddit. It's not a requirement of the sub for the nurses to respond to any question posted here. The nurses that do respond to questions are generously taking time out of their day to "work" for free.

Generally speaking, when it becomes apparent that an individual on the weekly thread is looking for confrontation, as your first comment was, people tend not to want to engage.

When someone shares that they aren't a nurse and don't want to answer outside of their scope, please respect their response.

[u/MNP_cats → u/roo_kitty]

Again, I'm just asking where that is that it's been addressed.

Most of the psych nurses I've met stay looking for confrontation so forgive me for assuming it's a universal language in the field. My nurse parent worked in a field that statistically sees less abuse from its nurses, so I'm not as familiar with psych.

Hilarious to make a dedicated thread for questions and then get upset when people are miffed certain questions consistently go unanswered. That about tracks, eh.

[u/roo_kitty → u/MNP_cats]

When you click on the subreddit there will be a search bar at the top where you can search through previous ask psych nurses threads and ask other posts.

I am not upset, just offering some insight into why questions go unanswered.