Newspaper entry

College Hospital in Costa Mesa is home to many psychotic patients. Psychosis is a word that describes its encapsulated individuals as having lost touch with reality. There are many, and I mean many, in the Critical Stabilization Unit. They’re admitted because they’re a danger to self, danger to others, or are gravely disabled related to a mental condition. I had one such patient who heard more voices when he drank coffee. Upon further research, the patient was actually being given decaffeinated. So I informed him that it was decaf, as what you do to psychotic patients which is to try to orient them to reality. He wouldn’t have it, he very much insists that it is making him more schizophrenic. He even offered to “test” his assumptions that if I gave him the coffee right now, he would start hearing them shout sexual . I said no that I won’t make him my guinea pig because medical professionals first do no harm. Anyway, this is why you go to nursing school.