Tina Curtis, Registered Psychiatric Nurse
Basic Facts
Major misconception
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"Have you ever seen One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest?* Not all psychiatric nurses are mean and awful like Nurse Ratchet was. We like to work with people, not make decisions for people. So the hairs rise on my neck when I watch that nurse in that movie.
"Psychiatric nurses obviously work with people who have mental illnesses, and there's a lot of stigma for people with mental illness. One of my jobs is always trying to erase that stigma. I like to think that that's changing."
*Note: This is a movie about people in a mental health care facility in the late 1950's in the U.S..