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Sep 09, 2009, 02:53 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2009
Location: So Cal
Posts: 3,342
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Hi Pheonix...
It sounds like maybe you're working an in-pt unit? (Not sure) Well, as a fellow Nurse, I completely understand where you're coming from!! I am not working on an in-pt unit now, but I did during school (as a CNA) and it was quite difficult to manage my triggers with everything that I saw and experienced with my pts. It seemed like I was always the CNA that got to sit with the ones in crisis because I was good at relating to them, and I didn't talk down to them...treated them like they mattered, and I liked being able to be there for them but it was also emotionally/mentally challenging for me as well. Now that I am working on a different unit (cardiac/step-down), I am not as exposed to mental health issues, but when they do arise, often I am the one asked to step in because I have the experience and skills.
Anyway, not sure what to say, but you do need to take care of you. Is there any way you could take a vacation? Give yourself some time away for a bit to just do something to recharge you? I know it's hard to vacation these days with everyone being so tapped financially. Ultimately though, you may want to consider going to a different unit. It would be hard, cause I can tell that you love what you do, but you would still get to use you skills with other non-psych pts because EVERYONE brings there emotional/mental issues with them to the hospital.
Know that I am here for you and if you ever need to talk you can PM me!! 
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