Rayrayma

Well, mistakes happen. I wasn't suppose to be dealing with a suicidal patient I thought he was general precautions. I did my homework within the same room with the previous patients I sat and nothing happened. Ugh, I'm so traumatized and feel terrible.....

I made another thread about this patient, they were suicidal so obviously not in the right state of mind but I'm still bothered by hearing that word. In the 20 years I lived within America I never heard this word before. The word he called me was the n word, three times. I was actually in shocked when he said it... I know that you're expected to hear racist and sexist things within this profession, but how do you get over it? I'm a patient attendant by the way...

This is what the nurse told me about the patient "He's a terrible person, very evil and you should ignore him, also redirect him" I wasn't informed he was suicidal AT ALL or that he had an IV in.... Uh, I was taken back because it seems out of line to be calling a patient evil. However when I came near the door there was slew of nurses by the door watching him scream at them. He was in restraints yelling at the nurses, calling them things and they laughed it off.... They recommended I sit outside so I did just that, and it resulted in this dude almost dying... Tbh, I learned a lot from that experience, I just wasn't prepared for handling a patient of this caliber five days in....

Yeah, I thought it was common place to report such a mishap, the scheduling team is pretty crap at the place I work. So I was gonna report them to the person who heads the patient sitting department

Ok, honestly just find it all really unprofessional tbh. Is this normal at hospitals? like do status of patients randomly change within seconds? You have to understand I'm not that familiar with healthcare, I don't know if I should even report this. I mainly thought about reporting it because I thought the mix up was pretty severe.

I'm a patient attendant and I'm only five days in but yesterday I sat with a Suicidal patient I wasn't ready for this as I'm pretty new to the job. I'm pretty upset since I didn't know he was suicidal I thought he was general precautions, that's what they told me anyways. So usually they inform me about the status of the patient so I'm better prepared when watching them. Usually with general precautions I'd do my homework or read magazines. I thought the same was for this case, the nurses even told me to just watch him outside his room and can even ignore him, that's what I did in the beginning because I was honestly scared, I wasn't ready to be dealing with someone in his situation. I didn't even realize he was suicidal until the end of he day when I called the company I worked for and they informed me. I'm annoyed because of how easily things could have gone wrong, and they did. I was outside his door watching him reading a magazine and he managed to rip out his iv...I didn't even know he had one in and the nurse left the lights off on him when they left also they didn't care when kept thrashing around on his bed so I just thought nothing of it but he managed to rip out his IV and blood was everywhere, like there was a pool of blood I didn't notice until the nurse took notice of it when he stopped by. It was than that I decided to sit inside even though the nurses advised me not to and decided to engage with him even though he was so abrasive before and even racist. He was constantly calling the nurses ******* and berating them. At the end of the day things turned out fine and he got better, he managed to keep conversation going and got better. But should I report the mix up to the company that contracted me? (with this company in the first thirty days you only handle general precautions not suicidal patients) When I called the scheduling team and complained about this they apologized and told me his status randomly changed and they weren't aware When I entered he was in restraints so I'm surprised he was ever general precautions. The whole situation left me with a bad taste in my month :/ I just wasn't prepared to deal with a patient this distraught and I'm annoyed how his safety was compromised