BehavioralRN

BehavioralRN has 8 years experience.

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1. New co-worker...my ex patient

   BehavioralRN replied to BehavioralRN's topic in Psychiatric

   Yeah. I just listen. Working at this place for over 3 years now the amount of dysfunction belongs in a lifetime series. It is a gilded cage situation though for many of us. I am passionate about my patients but he was Just my patient a year ago at t...

2. New co-worker...my ex patient

   BehavioralRN replied to BehavioralRN's topic in Psychiatric

   Several female staff (nurses and MHCs) have already told me in confidence he makes them uncomfortable and has poor boundaries. He'll purposefully place himself in extremely close proximity and ask things such as, "does this make you uncomfortable?" ...

3. New co-worker...my ex patient

   BehavioralRN replied to BehavioralRN's topic in Psychiatric

   He was a patient there last early last year and multiple times I admitted him on the detox unit in 2016. So not very long ago. He is a mental health counselor and not under any monitoring I know of.

4. New co-worker...my ex patient

   BehavioralRN replied to BehavioralRN's topic in Psychiatric

   He literally was a patient at this facility but we are supposed to pretend we don't know that... management is handling this all in a very odd way. Yeah... I was thinking minimal but professional interaction. He even works on a unit he used to be a p...

5. New co-worker...my ex patient

   BehavioralRN posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Just trying to get a feel about this. I work in ATS detox and now mostly an adult psychiatric unit. I just saw a patient I used to admit multiple times on detox start a job on my psych floor. This feels very uncomfortable for me, as I know this perso...