I am going to war. It will require much research of neuroscience. Social Services are failing my uncle coz he swears at their nurses &carers
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I spent 17 years working with people with challenging behaviour due to brain damage. There needs to be people who will do that.
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These people should be compensated at a higher level. (I wasn't) You can't just say 'Our carers don't have to put up with that.'
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In the general scheme of thing, people shouldn't have to provide services to people who call them names & shout at them, no.
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But if your service is providing care for people with brain damage, consider teaching staff to tolerate odd or rude behaviour
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It's particularly upsetting coz his wife who'd cared for him for yrs was explaining this & sending scans &reports even while dying of cancer
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I am not having this. This I am not having. Nope. War has been declared.
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Can they just switch out the nurse to someone with a backbone?
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Apparently not. They keep saying their staff is not required to tolerate abuse. WTF?
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That's insane, especially for a nurse who deals with older people with neurological disorders where that's extremely common.
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If more than 1/3 of dementia patients will demonstrate this behaviour - she *must* understand it's fairly standard in neurological cases
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It's one thing not being cut out for the job but to be shielded from doing the very thing your job entails is senseless.
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Begging your pardon but I will say something you know anyway. That's absolute fucking horseshit.

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Okay, calmer response: I work in a support home for vulnerable adults. One of them starts swearing, you damn well record it & observe it.
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You *absolutely* note it as a change of behaviour and you watch for associated signs of aggression and mood/behaviour changes ASAP.
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I get docs have a "no abuse" policy, but psych nurses can't exactly claim the same privileges in their given field. That makes no sense.
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Christ! If I didn't evaluate patients due to swearing when I worked in PICU they would never have been assessed/treated!
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