Do ya think I'm sexy?
Article Abstract:
A practice nurse discusses society's attitide towards sex and the older person, and feels that nurses should be prepared to discuss the subject without surprise or prejudice. This can be difficult because society does not openly recognise that sexual activity happens or is acceptable in older people. The nurse thinks that if sexuality was included as part of a nurse's training then the subject may be less of a taboo subject and nurses would feel more confident in talking about it. Details of the discussion with the patient are given.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1997
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I recognised the man who had tried to hang himself
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A former nurse records her feelings about three professional encounters with a suicidal man. She first came across him when she helped free him from an attempt to hang himself in a hospital toilet. She met him on wards on two subsequent occasions after suicide attempts. The nurse talked to him for some time on the third meeting, discussing his depression and his desire to die. The nurse describes her confusion concerning the ethics of preventing the man achieve his desired death, and her powerlessness to help him in his pain.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1997
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I wanted to stop the world and get off ... but not forever
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A health visitor recalls her parasuicide incident twenty years earlier. She wanted to escape from the anguish caused by some bad news, but she did not to die. She took phenobarbitone, but told a friend, who took her to hospital. She recalls the unsympathetic attitude of personnel at the hospital, but feels that nurses today are more understanding of parasuicide. She feels that the nurses tried to induce a feeling of regret for antisocial behaviour, and that the psychiatrist was completely unable to comprehend her action.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1997
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