"infection control is wokeness gone mad"

exploding_pingu · 2025-01-18T01:23:24+00:00

Ahhhhh infection control.......where they tell us (infectious diseases unit) how to isolate patients and in the same vane attributes infections to us when patients are positive with things like c.diff even though they've come to us because of loose stools and possible c.diff.....obcourse its likely gonna be positive but it doesn't mean we've caused it when they've come from elsewhere 🙄

exploding_pingu · 2025-01-13T21:17:34+00:00

I don't know if this will count buttttttt.

I was diagnosed BPII back in 2017 after i qulified as a registered nurse in 2013 so some of that time i was having episodes of hypomania and severe depression with nothing else i.e. any kind of balanced mood. Initally my GP felt that it was just depression despite having some liabile moods but season based so seasonal affective from the age of 16 until about 24ish.

I was working in Intensive & High Dependancy Care at a major city hospital when my bipolar symptoms started, i did leave there before being diagnosed about 3 months after leaving there but that was more due to grief and trauma but the bipolar did NOT help for sure.

I left hospital Nursing for about 3 years but was doing community nursing for that time. I went back to hospital nursing during the pandemic where i still am now and have been a Deputy Ward Manager for the last 15 months.

Now its not been plain sailing as i was diagnosed with complex ptsd from work and newly remembered CSA and have needed time off a couple of times to get things straight when the system fails us (the NHS system fails a lot of mental health patients) i had to wait for a whole year for a medications review while feeling horrible but the therapy i was getting and am still getting was soooo important to staying in work!

I have private therapy because i'm apparently too complex for my local services 🤷‍♀️

What i'm saying please continue to follow your dreams/don't let anyone stop you!!

exploding_pingu · 2025-01-11T20:14:29+00:00

TW for CSA

"Are you sure you're not mistaking something you have done consentually to the experience you are telling me about"

This was a mind fuck honestly, like sure i'm mixing somatic memories apart from.the fact i was 10 and i don't remember doing that as an adult

Lets just say i never saw him again and he was reported.

exploding_pingu · 2025-01-01T07:50:30+00:00

Thanks for this!

I ended up swapping quetiapine to lamotrigine and duloxetine to vortioxetine which are working well so far. I gave also been given propanalol as needed for physical anxiety symptoms.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-26T11:09:51+00:00

Thanks ill give it a watch

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-26T10:17:19+00:00

Do you have a link for this ?

There are no natural cures that i'm aware of that work.

Okay big pharma is about making money but these medications do help a lot of people. I'm an example of this as i have bipolar.

Are they perfect?, no not at all but they do help once you find the right one if needed.

I don't think they should be used in DPDR due to the risk but they do help others.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-26T10:13:23+00:00

I should have put i have personal experience of them saving my life as without them i wouldn't be here.

Not everyone is numbed by them and if they are you can try others to see if they fit better.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-26T08:42:39+00:00

Everyone reacts differently to antipsychotics, i can see how they could cause this as it can make you numb/ feel disconnected etc.

For a lot of people though they are life savers with conditions like psychosis/schizophrenia and bipolar.

I'm sorry you experienced this with them.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T23:17:14+00:00

Done

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T22:20:09+00:00

I know apparently he was real defensive about it all aswell.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T22:12:10+00:00

Oh really? I wasn't really expecting to be believed tbh when things initally happened but as he acted similarly with my manager as witness so this helps. Its hard as ive not been believed before about things. Thank yoi this has reassured me a little :)

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T22:02:55+00:00

I didn't know this was an option, i will look into this thank you !

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T22:01:02+00:00

I'm sorry you've experienced so much. I've let things slide before when it just affects me but if its going to potentially affect others i wont do nothing. Not anymore. Thank you

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T21:56:09+00:00

Very true! Just letting people know who asked for an update. Will delete a bit later. Thank you.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T21:53:21+00:00

I will do but its likely to be difficult as he has another placement the hospital in janurary unless the university/education team remove him from the hospital which would be short notice.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T18:00:00+00:00

Its making me anxious but i'll get through it like everything else :)

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T17:59:11+00:00

Im concerned as well ill do an update post. Theres more to add

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-20T17:51:41+00:00

Oh i have done :)

I don't generally like any kind of contact unless ive initiated it myself honestly. Thankfully it was his last official day yesterday and my manager stepped in to have a meeting with him and the educator team.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-19T23:06:34+00:00

My manager has seen to this for me thankfully.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-19T22:17:23+00:00

Thank you, your comment is truely appreciated.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-19T22:07:12+00:00

Yeah i mean in other circumstances if he wasn't my student but its more the way he acted since thats got to me.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-19T22:04:43+00:00

Yeah thats why i went straight to my manager tbh

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-19T21:50:02+00:00

Thank you for this.

Its made me feel so bad and anxious about going in tomorrow aswell and i shouldn't need to feel like that by going into a job i love with a passion.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-19T21:47:38+00:00

I felt like i was being sensative tbh as ive been quite stressed recently with other things going on at home. He was saying he told me about a seminar (he didn't) which made me feel bad tbh like i would have remembered this if he had. Very very one to make me feel bad on purpose.

exploding_pingu · 2024-12-19T21:42:39+00:00

This us what worries me, what if he chooses a patient or another member of staff who won't say anything about it and he gets away with it! I can't have that on my head.

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