NursingLink

i find it amazing, that we diagnose patients and carryout the treatment as

specified in the nurse diagnostic and intervention manuals without much thought.

even when the patient shows reluctance to accepting our diagnosis we do not relent

because we know that we know, that based on the diagnosis history of christmas past,we have the right to

impose that treatment  not just because we believe in it, based on past experiences or just plain theory

but because we have seen so many different patients with the same problem responding in a way that

makes the DSMIV classification, more than a work of art but an act of the divine creation. so we follow

the treatment and by all standards we should. but as i found out we forget to follow this rule when the

patient is our boss, co-workers, husband, mother or children. what is up with that?

dealing with that boss, who walks to our office, sits on your table, ask intruding personal questions, touch everything on

your desk, jump from topic to topic and constantly seeking praise or acknowledgement  for how he /she efficiently

manages the team.---------------how many times do we forget to treat our boss or co-workers who are exhbiting

mental health disorder symptoms? i know for me many times and then slowly i realise that no matter how long i

say to my self "i smell a large elephant in the room but i will not see it"deny  all i want

the large elephant in the room, stares at me with a heavy loud silence. until my mental health

training kicks in and i find my self treating the person i take instruction's from-----------how crazy is that? lets discuss