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Originally Posted by winter4me
As a professional, RN, I honestly believe you should, and hope you will report this to the facility in a letter to administration and to your doctor. I kid you not. This is something I am seeing/hearing more and more in the past decade+---this sheer lack of professionalism in my profession, that also displays a total lack of clinical knowledge about the problems they are dealing with, which makes them also thoughtless and clinically unsound. Not to mention violating privacy rights, demonstrating a lack of empathy and an inappropriate response to those they are supposed to be caring for.
This kind of thing makes me crazy-------------and it is Ubiquitous!
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I agree with you, Winter. If you can make an anonymous complaint, and tell your Dr./therapist directly, it would prevent this unethical behaviour from continuing. Especially in a Mental Health Center...this is so unacceptable.
When I worked in the private psych hospital as an aide years ago , we were admonished and given explicit orders to not discuss patients in any capacity where they or even their family members could hear it. If we were in a coffee shop on a day off, we were especially told it wasn't cool to discuss work/patients, as you never know if a stranger in public might have a friend or family member in the hospital.
I am sorry, Newtus, that you witnessed this. I believe you are a strong articulate woman who can make a difference by voicing your experience, and making the mental health center a safer place for yourself and others.
