Category: Mental hospitals
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How to get there from here 3. Protection Pt 2.
Some suggestions for drastic changes in the law. 1. Instant, compulsory, guaranteed life in prison (*c) sentence for any murder of a community staff. I don’t include inpatient staff in this, only because sectioned patients are harder to send to prison and other disposals are available. 37/41 at minimum IMHO. *c) Oh, alright, I suppose…
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How to get there from here 3. Protection Pt 1
Objective. To change mental nursing from a job staff don’t enjoy, feel they were tricked into and can’t wait to escape from into one they do enjoy and intend to stay in because they’re now confident they have the support, freedom and trust to do their jobs properly. To get from here to there, Britain…
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How to get there from here Pt 1b.
Non-wage benefits. I’ll clip a section from ‘Why Britain is ruined beyond repair’ to explain. ‘Much of this insecurity has been achieved by the salami slicing away of median and lower-income earners’ ‘social entitlements.’ Heaps of what we (because whether you have a middle class, salariat job or are at the bottom, we’ve all lost…
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Seclusion Pt 3
Ok, so now you know how impossible the workload becomes when we have to seclude. I’ll write a second post about the additional demands after we give RT. But you don’t know why. And you never will know if you rely on official explanations. This one – from an abstract – is a perfect example.…
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Seclusion Pt 2
I’ll list one or two more unnecessary and time-wasting demands before I move on. 1. ‘Risk must be reviewed hourly’ – not too onerous, you might think, except – ‘it must be documented.’ And they want your name on it. More time wasting for anyone who’s not that hot with words. This policy’s ‘owner’ (that’s…
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Seclusion Pt 1
Intro – I’m starting a series on these related subjects – restraint, seclusion and least restrictive policies. It’s a sprawling subject so I will probably change the titles and headings over time to organise them better. But for now, here goes. When a normal person (perhaps a mother whose ill but peaceful son or daughter…
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Themes you’ll see recurring in posts about ‘least restrictive’, seclusion & restraint. Pt 1.
1. Crap job. How many people will chose a job where their safety at work is ranked lower, much lower than a patient who chooses to assault, injure, bite, use weapons and so on? Some patients are psychotic, but others are ASPD, BPD, violent criminals, toddlers in an adult’s body, psychopaths, but all are given…