My name is Gisli ("Gees-lee") Kort Kristofersson and I am in the Psych mental health Clinical Nurse Specialist program at the University of Minnesota. I am married and have a 5 year old son and a 6 month old daughter.My wife is also doing a graduate degree here at the “U” in educational psychology.
My main areas of interest are community mental health, spirituality and mental health and culturally competent mental health care.We came from Iceland in July of 2006, sold everything we had and got on a plane. It has been a fun and humbling experience so far.
My hobbies, if anybody cares, include riding my bike, arty-farty cinema, playing basketball, reading books (From fantasy to Faust), mountain hiking and hanging out with my kids and wife.
But I am especially interested in “all things psych”. This is the reason why I agreed to do this blog. I was asked to since I was one of the Jansen Scholars that went to the last APNA annual conference in Florida, October 2007, and APNA was looking for a voice of a young psychiatric nurse to speak out here.
I will be posting on this site until the next APNA annual conference, which will be held this coming October here in Minnesota, about two –four times a week. Sometimes short, sometimes long, but always on psych related issues.
I am hoping those reading this will comment frequently so we can create some live discussions about the various topics we nurses face in the mental health field.
One of the biggest liabilities of nurses as whole is our tendency to keep silent on the public level. My hope is that this will be a venue for us to practice speaking out. Letting go of the fears and cute little complexes that prevent us from expressing our views and perspectives to the public at large.
And it is my strong believe that we do have a perspective that must be recognized, if this system is ever going to improve.
I welcome comments from all, students and veterans alike. I hope I will be able to provide you with some insights in the months to come, but even more, I look forward to learn from you.
My main areas of interest are community mental health, spirituality and mental health and culturally competent mental health care.We came from Iceland in July of 2006, sold everything we had and got on a plane. It has been a fun and humbling experience so far.
My hobbies, if anybody cares, include riding my bike, arty-farty cinema, playing basketball, reading books (From fantasy to Faust), mountain hiking and hanging out with my kids and wife.
But I am especially interested in “all things psych”. This is the reason why I agreed to do this blog. I was asked to since I was one of the Jansen Scholars that went to the last APNA annual conference in Florida, October 2007, and APNA was looking for a voice of a young psychiatric nurse to speak out here.
I will be posting on this site until the next APNA annual conference, which will be held this coming October here in Minnesota, about two –four times a week. Sometimes short, sometimes long, but always on psych related issues.
I am hoping those reading this will comment frequently so we can create some live discussions about the various topics we nurses face in the mental health field.
One of the biggest liabilities of nurses as whole is our tendency to keep silent on the public level. My hope is that this will be a venue for us to practice speaking out. Letting go of the fears and cute little complexes that prevent us from expressing our views and perspectives to the public at large.
And it is my strong believe that we do have a perspective that must be recognized, if this system is ever going to improve.
I welcome comments from all, students and veterans alike. I hope I will be able to provide you with some insights in the months to come, but even more, I look forward to learn from you.
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3 comments:
Gisli,
Excellent introduction! Thanks so much for initiating this effort to get the APNA word out.
Ben Evans, RN, APN-C
Hi Gisli,
Thank you for taking the time to do this - I'm a new psych CNS (only 6 months in the role). I hope modes of communication like this will open up some new possibilities.
I'm looking forward to your next installments...
Keynan Hobbs, MSN, RN, CNS-BC
Thank you for giving this information about APNA word out, I wnt to know more about this.
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