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Nammu · Aug 26, 2012, 07:21 PM

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I agree, many people have the mindset that seems to be if they stick it(a person {shudder}with MI) in the hospital it will somehow get better on it's own. Certainly not from anything they do. The psych techs were the most humane and compassionate workers there in my experience and they need only a H.S or GED education and it is preferred to have experience with MI units it is not required. The only time any one above them was worried about me is when I was too unset to eat. Normally I gave my food away anyway but that night I was just too upset to play the game we all played, we did not even hide it we gave our food away openly. So when they came around to "see" what we had eaten it looked as if I and everyone else had eaten every thing, but normally I had the fruit, vegetable's, and tea, everything else on my plate went to others. I needed a Dr's order to get an veggie tray. I didn't know that the first time I saw the doc the second time I saw him he was discharging me. So the day I didn't feel up to the game, the tech tried to give me my tray, then a nurse came, then a charge nurse came, I said it would be nice if you would take my pain this seriously.
I have a cyst in my spine, my spine is unstable, in two areas I have pressure against the nerves that cause numbness and pain in my lower arms and my left buttocks and leg that that gets worse when I have no good place to lie down such as what they called a bed, a piece of cardboard wrapped with plastic. The admittance Dr ordered an eggshell crate thing for my bed and nobody knew how to do this and nobody cared enough to try looking for other ways of making my bed comfortably enough for me to sleep in with out horrible neck and hip pain? What a strange place because my pain was not visible(neither is MI) it must not be real, they told me they had no proof I really had spinal pain, I told them Thursday they could cal the MRI place and my pain doctor on Fri, I signed releases for both places, all they did was call to cancel my Dr appointment not ask if my pain was real or of they could change my medicines! Had they taken me seriously and worked with me, tried to help ease my pain and left my pain medicine given to me by a specialist in pain medicine alone.Things might have been very different.

I might have voluntarily stayed and gotten things I needed, such as a case worker, someone to help with cleaning at home, getting things like food up stairs or finding a safe place on ground floor or even-- a pdoc, I've been trying for over 6 months to get one on my Medicare advantage plan. I get 4 or 5 names of docs that are supposed to work with PTSD and my insurance but when I call, oh I'm so sorry, I do not accept your insurance, or I only work in nursing homes? Being in a hospital is suposed to make the process faster? It should be fast and no difference but where I life the is there is one pdoc for 1500 people so trying to find one that does not over medicate is difficulty. As you said they think there is some magic that happens if the throw people into a hospital. It takes much more than locking a person up away from there support system and sometimes alienating that support system to help people. Hospitals can be good places why recovery does take place. But it take good caring staff. who's first job is to the clients after all without the client they would not have a job.

I'd say the first step would be a lot less paper work. When a person knows there dx write it down with a r/o if you must and treat them by that dx until proved otherwise,

2 the client is not your enemy.

3 staff learns to communicate and DE-escalate situations by listening to clients and hearing them, wait with the ganging up until you have no other choice. I saw many times when other patients stepped up and calmed the situation by repeating what was said until everyone understood what the client wanted-new sheets, or the lights were too bright, and all the big staff standing there ready for a throw down had to go a way disappointed. The staff should have been able to do that without the clients having to step in and do there job.

4.I want the statistics that say we can not bring our own pillows and blankets-I don't believe it is an infection control issue. If it can be washed in the machine, it's not a problem. I want the study that proves this, absolutely. I not heard of a single outbreak anywhere. We are talking trauma patients and pain patient's being denied pain care, comfort for a made up study or no study at all.

5.All forms of communication must be provided, 24/7. Terps are needed not just during groups but also, to socialize with and make phone calls, to be able to hear what medicines I'm given, same with any foreign language person. They need more communication than just group time. When somebody asks for a list of their medications they need to be given that list, not told it is to long or the nurse is to busy.

Anybody who's managed to read this far and has ideas for more just add them.

When I talked to my T last week and told her about the things I wished I could have stayed and worked on, she asked if I wanted to try the partial hospital program. It sounded good last Wed. But now... putting myself in their hands. I'm scared. They are picking me up tomorrow at 7:30am. I'm scared. It feels like they have all the control and I have none. I don't know if I can go though with it, I'm still struggling with the side effects of my pain med's. If I have to go though a locked door, I'm not sure I can handle it. wish I could talk to my T if that happens. Thats giving them too much power, the power to lock me up again, after all thoughts lies. Why can't the parcele hospital not be locked? I don't trust them with that much power. I have enough to get a cab fair home.

I don't think they understand trauma