one of my clients i take care is entirely too abusive.

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here is the thing one of my clients i take care is entirely too abusive. i've been with her for 2 years and it is still just as crazy there. she is a very heavy woman and we have to use a hoyer lift for transfers she is extremely abusive and i emphasize EXTREMELY!!!!!

one day i take her to her kitchen to eat breakfast, by the way she has already called me every name in the book and pulled my hair kicked me punched me bit me and spit a big honking wad of toothpaste in my face, i star getting her stuff ready and notice that there is a knife missing and i thought maybe it wasn't set out with the rest of her utensils. so she finishes eating we take her back to her room, oh there is 2 of us there and just so you know she likes me more than the other girl i'm with, get her in her chair and she stabs me right in the leg with that knife not very deep just enough to break the skin. so i call my boss and tell her and she straight laughs and me and says that's just how she is. i was so angry and couldn't do anything about it. so about 30 minutes later the woman rings her little bell, not kidding she rings this little bell when she wants something it's awful i even hear it in my sleep, because she dropped her remote i bend down to get it and that lady snips my ponytail OFF with a pair of scissors. again my boss doesn't do anything and i was still there for 10 more hours.

what should i have done?

Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

I'm with the rest, I begin to doubt the claim.

On the other hand, why didn't you call the police? I'd have had alarm bells going off when the knife was missing in the first place! Even if you were afraid to leave her you should have had the police there to establish this claim. I highly doubt they'd have tried to haul her off to jail, but there would be official evidence of the assault. They would likely have insisted on taking you to the ER, which means your supervisor would have had to respond and assume care herself at their insistence.

Sending you to take care of a person known to be abusive without warning you is placing you in jeapordy. I would think you have a claim against the agency as well. Refusing to respond to you after reporting the assault is just adding to it.

WAIT!WHAT!? your telling me that this patient STABBED you and cut off your hair and you supervisor just laughed? 1. report her (the supervisor) and 2. find a new job. thats so disrespectful and no one deserves that.

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