Greystone is one of five psychiatric facilities throughout the state that make up the Division of Mental Health within DHS. Concerned that you don't have enough psych experience to work for us? We have a six week orientation program with preceptorship that builds on the psychiatric knowledge base that you learned in school. Our goal is to make you feel comfortable in the role of psychiatric nurse whether you are a new graduate or an experienced nurse who just needs to adjust to the job description at Greystone.
In fact for recent graduates we have a new one year nurse externship to help you integrate the skills you acquired in nursing school with the role and responsibilities of being a psych nurse at our facility. Governor Sheila Oliver. At points, I felt like a sort of unofficial tour guide of the Kirkbride.
People would message me from different states asking to come pay a visit, and I would happily oblige. It took me a few years before I fully realized how much of a prize Greystone truly was.
Although I spent a lot of time there, I still feel like it wasn't enough. During the demolition, we made it a point to be there on an almost daily basis. Each time I watched the machines take another dig at the building, I would think "there's no way this is going to keep going, someone is going to stop this. One of the final times I was in there was when the wings had already been taken down, and demolition of admin had begun.
It was risky and exceptionally dangerous. I remember the crisp summer night, the nearly full moon, just enough light between that and the streetlights. There were holes in the side of the building, huge chunks of stone and pipes dangling overhead. It looked like a war zone.
We made a run for it, and we were in. Male patients got the opportunity to create brooms, rugs, and brushes. In , the Psychiatric Reception Building was opened, which would eventually house the operating theatres and laboratories. A social services department was also created that allowed patients to remain hospitalized but with access to the outside world for short periods to help them acclimatize to real life again. Reception building. However, in , the hospital reached a maximum of 7, people due to the effects of World War II.
Many soldiers had post-traumatic stress disorder, and there were few hospitals in the country capable of treating such patients. Greystone was one of them. Treatment for this disorder included shock insulin therapy and electroconvulsive therapy, procedures which are now discredited by modern Western psychiatric hospitals. He spent five years there from to One of his visitors at Greystone was year-old Bob Dylan in Woody Guthrie was transferred to a New York hospital in and died there in In , New Jersey announced its intention to close the hospital by
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