Visited to Al-Islah Drug Rehabilitation Centre, Muara

Visited to Maraburung Prison at Tutong District

This new prison started its operations on August 1, 2001, many rehabilitation programmes such as psychological rehabilitation, counselling, civic rehabilitation and vocational training, have been held. On top of that, inmates are also given spiritual and physical education. The prison has permanent religious teachers. The Maraburong Prison is a new facility built to accommodate male inmates who have committed less-serious offenses and who are given shorter imprisonment sentences

Maraburong Prison, which can accommodate 150 inmates. The prison is mainly for first-time offenders. Second and repeat offenders are placed in Jerudong Prison. This new prison is located within the Bukit Panggal area, built on 81 hectares at a cost of B$18.8 million. It is one the modern building prisons in the country, which is equipped with sophisticated facilities in terms of security systems.

There are classes, surau, workshops (handicraft), with facilities like dinning hall, kitchen, mini library and volleyball and sepak-takraw courts

Visited Lecture from Narcotics Control Bureau, Gadong

Lecture by Matron Pg Hj Sabtu, 2nd floor, RIPAS Hospital

Majlis Ilmu at ICC, Berakas

concentrate on astronomy. apa yang kau tengok tu Ramli?

Orang kuat Brunei, its not a stone but a comet

Visiting Lecture from IPA, Ustaz Adi Dzaki

Attachment at Hospital Belait

Not at Dusun Durian but Community visit at one of patient house site, so tired but interesting about 5 - 6 houses in one day

Becoming a Mental Health Nurse

Cath Melia somewhere in 1982 studied how student nurses feel about becoming nurses. It became a prominent reference in understanding how would be nurses experience the process of becoming a nurse. Studies have also been conducted on would be Mental Health or Psychiatric Nurses by Montgomery sometime in the 1990's (will need to check the reference). However it would be interesting to learn how you feel about becoming one yourself.

Questions for you to ponder when considering the above;

1. What makes you choose Mental Health Nursing?
2. What do you learn to become a Mental Health Nurse?
3. How do you think the programme has prepared you to become a capable / competent Mental Health Nurse?
4. What experience you get out of working with the experts in mental health?
5. How do you imagine you career as a Mental Health Nurse would be?

drug-induced weight gain

Weight gain has become increasingly prominent with the newer atypical antipsychotic agents especially Olanzapine and Clozapine used to treat Schizophrenia.

Obesity is considered a heterogenous metabolic disorder associated with physical inactivity and overeating that emerges essentially because more calories consumed than expended as energy in which it occurs more commonly in individuals with a family history of obesity and is more prevalent in people with mental illnesses. Therefore nursing strategies on helping patient to control weight gain and also help them to reduce the risk of metabolic effects of anti psychotic drugs such as Type 2 Diabetic Mellitus, Hypertension and cardiovascular disease is important. There are many strategies have been identified such as change the prescribed meds, change their dietary habits and more.



so if there any comment or idea regarding this topic, u are welcome.. ;D