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An incident in my local hospital has lead to the decision that they allow no psych patients past the ED doors. I was given the option of a ward 120 miles or 80 miles away. I chose to be drugged up to the eyeballs, put on suicide watch and returned home. I have been up there before and left for hours before being accessed. I can understand someone already needing to be helped losing it. If recognized as a psych patient, ones should be sedated as soon as possible.
I don't know how nurses and other medical staff deal with what they do. Over 90% have been attacked at some stage. Police should be involved at attendance to ED and risks assessed before an incident occurs. But there's not the police numbers needed to do so.
To Pookyl, my heart goes out to your sister. We all are responsible for our actions. Whoever this person was, should have attended ED sooner, before losing control and destroying another persons life. Or informed staff at presenting they were a danger to themselves or others. Unfortunately, the system leaves us believing its better to. hide our true condition. Many of us have had truly horrible assessments and experiences, and as such, one becomes very wary of what information we volunteer. However like I said, we are responsible for our actions.
I hope your sister regains her quality of life, sadly it will never be as good as what she deserves, but at least to the full extent possible.
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