Nurses Station

I almost expect someone to be standing on the other side of that glass.

Line up for your meds in a orderly fashion, no pushing , shoving, single file please, there is enough for everyone.

Sad thing is, awyper, I could see that happening.

yes, Ron it is very sad, At least at my place, the med cart is on wheels, so the nurse can go to room to room, much more dignified and private.

The ticket window for the ferry on the River Styx

Yes, Ron. That was the way it was done and awyper, the patients' needs were alway dead last. The nurses didn't want to have to get off their rearends and go door to door. Been there.

Scully, I couldn't agree more, facilities are full of lazy nurses, but fortunately I work at a facility that does try.

GRRRRRR. . . . . . . . . . . >:-(

My sister's a nurse, and she's not lazy.....

Come on Lynne, how 'bout a quick speech about the underpaid and understaffed conditions

I give up, Grifspop and Twug, m'dears. I am going to let everyone hate the staff any more and make fun of 'em, especially those who haven't had the least actual bit of experience with this. Seems to warm the cockles of their hearts, for some reason, hating mythical Marquis de Sade staff. Then when these guys are in a nursing home in 50 years and one of the overworked, underpaid nursing aides finds their rude, ignorant ramblings on this site, my ghost will laugh its spectral ass off when they get their comeuppance from staff who have had enough and didn't need publicly dissed in the bargain. :-)

ok, ok, perhaps someone had a bad experience with nurses. But we are not all lazy, Alot of the nurses out there will help us aides, unfortunately we are as Grifspop said, underpaid, and under staffed, I would love to tend to everyones need, but there arent enough of us these days to go around. We try . But when Lynne gets on the soapbox, she is a crusader for our cause. Thanks Lynne

Not all nurses are lazy, but I have come across a few in my day.

awyper, I LUBS you guys! Where would anyone be without you? Yeah, some of the nurses gots 'tudes, but then everyone has a 'tude at some point.

'Specially me. ;-)

Im not lazy, but im sure there are also lazy plumbers, dentists, chiropractors, teachers, mcdonalds managers and so on and so forth.

Yeah, but they aren't such easy targets. Plus I'm starting to get used to it by now. Never realized how many people there are out there who've had minimal or no exposure to the field and yet who have totally formed opinions which they are quite vocal about and are rather proud to voice.

Well, they say opinions are like - well, YOU know. ;-)

I blame One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and those pictures of abuse from Byberry and Pennhurst (1940s and 1960s respectively) which people think still goes on. Didn't Byberry have 4000 people in it at one point, and Pennhurst 2,500? Overcrowding isn't the word... but I'm sure that de-institutionalisation has massively depleted figurs like that!

At some facilities where the person who gave out the meds also had interaction with the "clients" it was much appreciated that the staff gave out meds from the window. It meant that the staff would use the rest of the time to spend with the patients one on one instead of using that time to drag the med cart around room to room to room

The only chance I really get to be one on one with on of our residents, is when they flip out, and we have to stay with them till the psych doctor comes.

Medication time...medication time...

i love the blue-tinted light

This would make such a coool kitchen. Too bad they didn't convert to apts.

it kind of reminds me of my school... relativly desturbing thought

Actually, I don't see a med window in the hall.. Unless the assumption is that it was in the door..
I can understand a nurse's station being enclosed thusly, as it would keep the clients out of the paperwork, phones, and the nurse's hair, not to mention the omnipresent coffeepot..
Looking at the setup, this looks like it would have been in either a security ward, or, looking at the handrail, possibly, blind area.

Medication time

A med cart on wheels, rolling thru an open ward is certainly not a good idea under these particular circumstances. I've been a nurse for a long time (27 yrs) and worked in a couple older type buildings (not psych facilities tho) and can see how things could get dangerous for the med nurse out in the open with meds in a cart, locked or otherwise. (I spent time as a student at Torrence State Hospital)

wow this picture is scary...

especially because i'm home alone....

and its 1:30 AM
*shudder*

This place looks so interesting. I almost expect a bubblehead nurse to come shambling out of the door, medicine bottle in hand. Hehehehe.

This reminds me of the second "Halloween" movie (shudder)....

This is Scary! i can picture a shodow appearing on the right side where the blue light hits!! Good thing im at work and not home alone :)

that's the creepiest nurse's station i've ever seen! it almost looks like a face in the top right corner of the 2nd window from the right

nurses stations are neat and i like that creepy feeling

OMG I see that face...though it looks more simian than human.

When I was at a Psych Ward in a well-respected hospital here in PA (2 hours from where I live), the nurses would actually come around to the patients personally with a litlte cup of water and their pills. Of course there weren't many patients there compared to these facilities, but it always made the patients feel a little more comforatable and cared for getting their meds this way. Of course the ward I was on also had an open pantry area with crackers, cookies, and all sorts of juices available to the patients whenever they wanted them. THAT was a nice touch. The nurses there were very caring and even though they were horribly overworked (and underappreciated), they still treated us like humans.

I will never forget my experience there.

How was that Lynne?

I feel like I showed up to this party 5 years too late. Over the past year I have poured over every gallery posted by Motts and read the comments. And they have changed my perception of mental health care facilities thanks to comments by Lynne & others. I must admit that I fell into that whole "One Flew Over The Co-Co Nest" mentality. One bad health care worker makes for better news reporting that a million good ones. Thank you Lynne for opening my eyes to the reality of hard working nurses & aids who came to places like this every single day and tried to make a difference.

Amen Larry D.

I was in psych hospitals, and I have had my share of really BAD employees (staff) who really did NOT give a crap about us...but most of my experiences were positive and I am much better for them now.

Lynne and Motts -- you are my heroes.

Don't argue...you have my undying gratitude and respect. :)

i was up there four times and could not find a way in this building.