Sleeping IM

[chillywil]

Please settle an argument. I work at a psychiatric hospital. My coworker believes that it is okay to give a patient having a nightmare that causes her to cry out loud in her sleep an IM injection while she is asleep. I disagree. What do you think? This is in Michigan.

[JKL33]

Thanks to all who commented, the nurse in question reported me for neglect because I refused to give the patient an IM while they were sleeping. I was terminated yesterday. This is a true story. Mental health in Michigan.

Come on...

I never responded originally because I doubted the overall veracity of this. Besides, everything that needed to be said was already said by the first 3 respondents.

What the heck happened?

Monitoring someone to be able to give them an IM injection should they have a night terror doesn't seem like a reasonable POC at all. Still, curiosity is getting the best of me: What the heck is the supposed rationale for this/how does it supposedly fit into a legitimate plan of care?

TBH it sounds like they wanted to terminate you separate from this...