I'm so over the snow. We got another 4 inches or so overnight, not much I know, but they have done a bad job of plowing so the roads are pretty slick - not fun. Also its frickin' freezing out there... a high of 20 today, brrrr! Spring break is next week but I have a feeling its not going to feel like spring! Oh well....
Another week of the semester is done - this was the first of 4 at the Psych/Behavioral Unit at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa... I was on the children's side this week - which I thought was going to be fun, but it was honestly pretty boring.
I was hoping to work with adolescents, but there was mostly kids, all under the age of 10 (and there wasn't very many of them). The two days consisted of doing a lot of puzzles, playing Simon says, watching some cartoons and a movie made probably before I was born on how milk is made... We did get to participate/observe in a couple group therapy sessions - which were interesting, but I did not find them terribly thereapeutic. I am interested to go next week and see how things change when there is more kids and teenagers on the unit - then I switch sides and work with the adults for 2 weeks.
So far, don't want to be a psych nurse but I'll keep you all posted :)
"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt” ~Marianne Moore (American Poet 1887-1972)~
