Upon completion of our first two semesters of nursing school on med-surge floors, we recently entered our third rotation this summer. This semester consists of Mental Health where we spend every Thursday in the psych ward dealing with drug/alcohol detox, perceptual disorders (depression, PTSD, etc) and psychotic disorders. The second part of this rotation is Community/Public Health where every Tuesday we are in the community performing home visits and planning an anti-bullying program for third graders at a local elementary school that has a lot of behavioral problems. Each community health nurse has a bag just like Mary Poppins did to carry all our important assessment tools like blood pressure cuffs, gloves, spoons full of sugar and such. Our bag is red and pretty trendy, I must say. 
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