Category: What should be done differently?
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How it used to be Pt 1. Giving an injection to a refusing patient.
Once upon a time, it was quite common for larger male staff to get a phone call early in the shift. As I remember, it was commoner on afternoons. Responsible, experienced shift leaders were already thinking about what kind of shift they’d be handing on to the night staff. It would go along these lines.…
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Refocusing priorities… To treat Pt 3
Once, I came on for a night shift. At handover we learned how a patient with a long hx of suicide attempts had nearly succeeded earlier that day. She was both short and stick thin.
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Refocusing priorities. Treat. Prevent. Risk. To treat – Pt 1
The first and foremost duty of mhs is to treat the ill patient so he gets better. (*a) What does ‘better’ mean, though? Good question. Because doctors, nurses and psychotherapists should be able to justify the treatment they’re offering (or forcing on) the patient. They should know what it is intended to achieve, what the…
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The state of play you are paying for Part 1b
3. A patient from an extended family of mental patients, you might call them a clan, (if you made sure you remained anonymous) comprising far too many siblings, cousins and assorted relatives, who’d been rejected, neglected, abused and farked up by their useless, feckless parents and aunties and uncles – who themselves had been rejected, neglected,…