Having Fun with Documentation

There is a State of Illinois form called The Restriction of Rights that I've used from time to time for nearly 30 years, since I worked at Anomaly State Hospital, and still used yesterday. Basically, when a patient's rights are to be restricted, like the right to refuse medication, the form is completed, the patient is made aware, and receives a copy.

Like most government forms, it is terribly redundant. For example, there are no fewer than a half a dozen places to date and time it. There are four places to sign it!

We are to sign our full name and title in each of the four places. Obviously, the State of Illinois is okay with me giving my full name to, say, (with all due respect) an actively acting out psychotic ex-convict paranoid schizophrenic whose rights I am taking away!

No way.

"Davey Do RN" becomes D---- D- RN.

There is a place on the form for the patient whose rights are being taken away to have someone else notified of this legal process. We are also required to enter the full address of the one being notified. Some have designated, for example, their spouse, next of kin, or lawyer. Others have designated such deity entities as the Holy Spirit, Jesus, or God.

Under the address I just enter "Heaven".

Let's see the state of Illinois deliver a copy of the Restriction of Rights there!

Do you ever have any fun with documentation?

(Note: Immediate disqualification for "dropping the F bomb" due to its overuse.)