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Licensed Vocational Nurse
The title “nurse” can refer to individuals with varying degrees of education and licensure. Job titles to which individuals may refer to themselves as “nurses” include the following: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) / Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Registered Nurse (RN) of Nurse Practitioner (NP). LVN’s and LPN’s have the same training, licensure and scope of practice. The title Licensed Vocational Nurse is used only in California and Texas, while the title Licensed Practical Nurse is used throughout the rest of the United States. The job title used in Australia and New Zealand is Enrolled Nurse, while in the United Kingdom the job title is State Enrolled Nurse. In the United States, it… Read More…

Dr. Ignatius Piazza, founder and director of Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, has taken a stance and added his voice to the already numerous experts and reporters who have been revealing the obvious, dangerous connection that lies between psychiatric drugs and school killings. Over the last six months, research and reporting has finally led reporters, experts and even psychiatrists to the conclusion that psychiatric drugs are mind-altering, dangerous and are the cause of school shootings like those we saw at Columbine and Virginia.

For years, Piazza has firmly stood in his conviction that psychiatric drugs are to blame for the atrocities committed by the students against their fellows and teachers. Immediately following the Columbine horror, Piazza asked… Read More…

A Psychiatric Technician (PT) deals with people who are emotionally or developmentally disabled. The PT utilises systematic, practical and manual skills to diagnose and cure the patients suffering from mental and developmental disorders.

The Psychiatric Technician Program introduces students to general psychology field, stressing on the applications and the theories utilized in different medical settings. This course offers training to the technicians in order to understand the behavior patterns of the patients. These technicians study and practice a wide range of topics dealing with personality, intelligence, thinking capacities, understanding abilities, behavior patterns and perception of various issues.

Psychiatric Technician Program offers a course on Pharmacology which teaches the technicians about the administering and prescribing of medications safely to… Read More…

People who are mentally ill also seem to be chronically afraid of hospitals, or at least seem to want to avoid medical attention in a hospital setting. Looking at it from the perspective of someone who is confused or otherwise mentally unstable, the sterile and instrument-laden halls of a hospital are indeed terrifying, and can even be considered “creepy” by a person who is not suffering from a mental condition.

Mentally ill people do not want to come to a hospital, and they do not want to seek treatment, making it difficult to get that treatment to them. This is why mobile psychiatric rehabilitation units have been established. Mobile psychiatric rehabilitation is designed to help people… Read More…

Are you looking for information on psychiatric nursing? Well, you have come to the right place. Anyone, who is interested in psychiatric nursing, is very much welcome to be part of this challenging yet rewarding profession. With the shortage of nurses in any specialization of nursing, any person who wants to become a nurse is greatly encouraged, especially in psychiatry nursing.

We live in a society where people find it easier to talk about physical illness than psychiatric or mental condition. It is not every day that you meet someone who has interest in psychiatric nursing. So, if you really want to become a psychiatric nurse, then you should know what steps to take in order for… Read More…