Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Scary night at work...Is it worth it?

So the other night we had a very very scary night at work. One of our residents became very Agitated. And started talking to himself, and getting mad. Well one point in the night he was climbing on top of the chair to climb the china cabinet, and we couldn't do anything to get him down. I noticed he was progressing all night, even after the maximum dosage of meds to calm him down. So at about 10:30 I was in with another resident, and I heard the nurse scream so loud for me. I came running down the hall, only to see that agitated resident blocking her in the kitchen, trying to get her. she was pinned between the door and the dishwasher, and she was holding with all her might to get him out. So I tried to distract him, the other care aide jumped over the servery, and into the kitchen to see if she could get the door closed on him. We tried everything to get him out. The resident was looking at me, and saying he was not moving for anyone. So the nurse grabbed the phone and called the cops! We finally distracted him with something, and managed to shut the door, he then tries to attack the other care aide, so we all made a dash to the back office. The cops arrived and took 2 of them to hold him down so we could give him an injection...He has been sleeping ever since...



Now I sit here and wonder is it worth going to work?? Ahh it was scary

1 comment:

Mz.Elle said...

My lord...that was some night!
I think you need danger pay:)
Hopefuly,you'll have no more incidents like that any time
soon!