• Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Psych nurse protip: “I wanna be able to give this my full attention so we’re gonna put a pin in this and circle back.” Then you literally just leave, possibly mid-sentence if they’re really that hyperverbal. Some acutely manic patients are so hyperverbal that I have to take their temperature under their armpit because they literally cannot keep their mouth closed around the probe.