Continous Care Advice Needed

[onepowerfullady, LPN]

I work in a peds client home that needs continuous care. Last evening the client's mother did not like the way I was cleaning her child's bottom and shoved me out the way and told me that because I have only went to nursing school for one year I didnt know *ish. She also told me I needed to watch and learn. I told her I have worked here for several months and he has never had skin breakdown. She said well yeah you don't know anything move over. I let her clean her child as it is her child and she shouted a lot of obscenities to me in which I told her that I was not going to shout with her in front of her child. She said around here you are not the boss...I have no idea where this all stemmed from, but I told her that I was going to let her finish handling business with her child and I will go outside to cool off. She followed me outside to tell me that his pads needed changing. I just changed them. Instead of picking up the linens and putting them in the hamper she left them in the middle of the floor for me to pick up.

I called the agency I worked with and I was told to finish the shift and ignore her because she is bipolar. I have had dealings with mentally ill people before, but I have never been shoved. Mind you last month she does not like the nurses talking to any other members of her household. I can't prove that she left water for me in the middle of her kitchen floor last month for me to fall into, but it was abnormal to have water in the middle of the floor away from anything close. She saw me fall and immediately said she had no insurance. If you were me what would you do to protect yourself and to from yourself from abuse. I don't want to quit my job and I realize that I'm a guest in her house, but I should never have to deal with abuse. P.s... She takes a lot of pills in which 4 Xanax Bars are in the mix not to mention occasionally she adds adderall to her collection to...

I'm sorry I had to post this, but I need some helpful advice.

[caliotter3]

She committed battery when she shoved you. Mental illness or not, that was it right then and there. Quit the case or else you can expect more of the same with possible negative consequences, for you, not the client, or the agency. Easy.

[onepowerfullady, LPN]

This will be my last shift here. I told the agency that I should have never been asked to stay after that type of abuse. Thanks for your help!