I started working nights on a 21 bed psychiatric unit about  7 months back and have recently been “promoted” to charge. We have 7 private rooms and 7 double rooms with 2 beds. The private rooms are ideally saved for the extremely sick  or those who absolutely cannot have a roommate for whatever reason (Transgender, some sort of contagious infections,etc). Now normally, we can shuffle patients around say if we have a male in the ER downstairs that needs placement  but only have a female bed available. (Obviously males and females cannot room together). But The other night I was in charge and we had a situation where we only had an empty female bed available, there was a male patient in the ER needing placement, and all of our private rooms except for 1 absolutely could not be moved due to their level of acuity. The 1 Patient who could be moved absolutely refused.  I tried  to talk to her for an hour and she was adamant she was not moving and the only way she was going out of the room was By going down kicking and screaming. I called my nursing supervisor (who had told us all how much she despises psychiatric patients, psychiatric nurses are lazy and basically just those who couldn’t make it in “real” nursing, etc) and she completely lost her cool on me and told me the patient did not have a choice on moving and I needed to force her. I told her that I agreed with her that the patient did not technically have the “right” to not move as this was a hospital not a hotel, but there was no way I could “force” her unless I literally put my hands on her which would 1. Be assault/battery and 2. Would be considered a restraint which would require all the proper paperwork, the doctor coming in at 3am for a (unnecessary in my opinion) restraint and in general would just be wrong for it to escalate to that point . She hung up on me. Fortunately, the patient in the ER labs came back abnormal and it had to be corrected so he ended up not coming up on my shift, but I honestly don’t know what I would have done Had they not and they expected a bed for that patient. My question is, while I know patients do not have the “right” to refuse to move rooms, but what should I do in situations like this When it comes up next time?