so people ask me what exactly i do at work.
here is a run down. this all happened yesterday.
i was suppose to start at 12 but got a call from my co-worker to come in at 11 (she was overwhelmed), but i still showed up at 12- blah. i got to work and a resident wanted to commit suicide. she was put on a 1 to 1 so someone had to sit with her until she got shipped to the hospital. while this was going on two other residents were extremely agitated, anxious, and paranoid and wanted to fight other residents and staff. they were swearing and cussing out people- and by paranoid and delusional, i mean u could be in a room writing by yourself and a person will knock, walk-in and say:
"you was talkin' about me in here. i ain't goin' back to jail, man. why u talkin' bout me?" and then they'll walk right up to your face and say "don't talk about my mama? i aint gonna hear that. what? you wanna fight? come on man, right here. why u threatening me?"
of course this is the clean version.
This was followed by various other going-on's: follow-up (where we have to check on specific residents and counsel them on their behavior i.e. for hearing audio or having visual hallucinations, responding to internal stimuli, being out past curfew, etc.) , charting, writing reports, dealing with residents not on follow-up who begin responding to internal stimuli, rounds.
Then there were two fights on different floors. One was for a resident shouting gang slogans like "GDK" in someone else's room that person was not down with "GDK" so they proceeded to bash each other in the face. quite bloody. and neither would say "i will not fight that other person if i see them or i will bring my concerns directly to staff instead of trying to handle them on my own". They got shipped out to the hospital.
The second fight was for a man slapping a woman three times in the face. his defense when asked why: She was playing sexual games with my mind. i told her to stop playing sexual games.
the last thing right before i was 'suppose' to leave. two roommates got into it with each other. one is a 62 yr old white male and the other, a 53 yr old black male. of course, the white guy gets scaried and doesnt want to go back to the room. So as im getting his things togther and figuring out which room to put him in - he calls a bomb threat on the building. and then 6 cops and 3 squad cars show up. the cops were really thrilled!!!
then i left at 9:30. i practically ran out the door.
mel gibson shouting "freedom" x100.
here is a run down. this all happened yesterday.
i was suppose to start at 12 but got a call from my co-worker to come in at 11 (she was overwhelmed), but i still showed up at 12- blah. i got to work and a resident wanted to commit suicide. she was put on a 1 to 1 so someone had to sit with her until she got shipped to the hospital. while this was going on two other residents were extremely agitated, anxious, and paranoid and wanted to fight other residents and staff. they were swearing and cussing out people- and by paranoid and delusional, i mean u could be in a room writing by yourself and a person will knock, walk-in and say:
"you was talkin' about me in here. i ain't goin' back to jail, man. why u talkin' bout me?" and then they'll walk right up to your face and say "don't talk about my mama? i aint gonna hear that. what? you wanna fight? come on man, right here. why u threatening me?"
of course this is the clean version.
This was followed by various other going-on's: follow-up (where we have to check on specific residents and counsel them on their behavior i.e. for hearing audio or having visual hallucinations, responding to internal stimuli, being out past curfew, etc.) , charting, writing reports, dealing with residents not on follow-up who begin responding to internal stimuli, rounds.
Then there were two fights on different floors. One was for a resident shouting gang slogans like "GDK" in someone else's room that person was not down with "GDK" so they proceeded to bash each other in the face. quite bloody. and neither would say "i will not fight that other person if i see them or i will bring my concerns directly to staff instead of trying to handle them on my own". They got shipped out to the hospital.
The second fight was for a man slapping a woman three times in the face. his defense when asked why: She was playing sexual games with my mind. i told her to stop playing sexual games.
the last thing right before i was 'suppose' to leave. two roommates got into it with each other. one is a 62 yr old white male and the other, a 53 yr old black male. of course, the white guy gets scaried and doesnt want to go back to the room. So as im getting his things togther and figuring out which room to put him in - he calls a bomb threat on the building. and then 6 cops and 3 squad cars show up. the cops were really thrilled!!!
then i left at 9:30. i practically ran out the door.
mel gibson shouting "freedom" x100.
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Please be careful.