We've just wrapped up the APNA 22nd Annual Conference. This was our most successful conference to date with over 1,000 attendees. We are working on convincing a graduate student in Iowa to take over the blog for the year. Her enthusiasm is infectious and her insight into psych nursing and the world around her is eye-opening.
Hopefully, we will see her first post soon. Please welcome her and subscribe so you can get her latest posts. Also, don't forget to leave comments. We will randomly pick 2 people who comment on her first post to received the new book Carved in Sand.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Last Blog
My blogging for APNA is at an end. Hopefully the tradition can continue. Each year more and more nurses join APNA, increasing the ratio of members that are used to and familiar with online resources such as this blog. So this kind of thing should have a future. But without member participation it is quite difficult. This lack of participation is normal in the first year of any endevour though.
In the last year, especially the last 6 months, I have been adding to my fund of knowledge more then ever before in psych. nursing. But sometimes it get's lonely in the office. And belonging to an organisation like APNA becomes essential.
I go now to the first pre-conference session here in the Twin Cities. I hope I will see you at the conference. Thank you for sticking with me the last year.
Peace, Gisli
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
APNA Conference in 10 days
Hope everybody is fired up for our convention. I am getting excited.
as we all know, it is not easy to get a psych nurse excited...
Plan to go to the sleep workshop. I find I am giving out Trazodone, Seroquel and other agents for sleep quite frequntly. I review the sleep hygiene points but sometimes the few minutes I spend on it seem to fall on deaf ears. Sometimes I probably don't spend enough time on sleep hygiene with clients. It is way easier to just write out a script, at least for me, in the short term.
I am hoping this seminar will keep me alert and on track.
See you there.
as we all know, it is not easy to get a psych nurse excited...
Plan to go to the sleep workshop. I find I am giving out Trazodone, Seroquel and other agents for sleep quite frequntly. I review the sleep hygiene points but sometimes the few minutes I spend on it seem to fall on deaf ears. Sometimes I probably don't spend enough time on sleep hygiene with clients. It is way easier to just write out a script, at least for me, in the short term.
I am hoping this seminar will keep me alert and on track.
See you there.
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