Help me decompress

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daisybaby, LPN

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I should have added that the pt was in our MH/Crisis unit by end of shift yesterday. I'm still a little wired from all of this. While I emphathize with the pt., I cannot help but think about the thousands of taxpayer dollars wasted as we jumped through so many hoops for nothing. I wish I could sit her down and make her think about what happened from a caregiver's standpoint. Moreover, I am concerned for her children at home. I really do hope she gets the psych care she needs.

Thanks for all your replies- they help evaporate some of the steam!

Retired R.N.

260 Posts

I should have added that the pt was in our MH/Crisis unit by end of shift yesterday. I'm still a little wired from all of this. While I emphathize with the pt., I cannot help but think about the thousands of taxpayer dollars wasted as we jumped through so many hoops for nothing. I wish I could sit her down and make her think about what happened from a caregiver's standpoint. Moreover, I am concerned for her children at home. I really do hope she gets the psych care she needs.

Thanks for all your replies- they help evaporate some of the steam!

daisybaby,

Treat yourself to something special as a reward for your superb support for a patient who desperately needs psychiatric assistance. Don't let anger over her actions tear away at you because she was/is either too unaware of how the "normal" world works to understand why she acted the way she did, or she is the ultimate con artist. For the sake of her children at home, she needs good psych care, and appropriate interventions need to be made in behalf of those children.

SmilingBluEyes

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

It's natural to feel anger and resentment at such situations. But do not lose sight of the fact that this person IS ill, mentally, and therefore, may NOW finally get the psych care she needs, however roundabout she came to it. And I personally, would be thankful she is NOT pregnant at this time; imagine a woman so sick caring for a newborn. It could always be worse. Once you "stand down" from the adrenalin rush you experienced, and the anger that follows, try to remember these things and be grateful it's not you, nor someone you love, going through this.

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