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Prolekult-Hauntolog t1_iyofmfw wrote

they need to make it easier for nurses to sedate these people. the number of women I know who've been groped or punched just doing their jobs is sickening, and the liberal hysteria about civil liberties, while necessary, is taken to far when it puts our healthcare workers in unsafe and undignified working conditions

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ChrisFromLongIsland t1_iyp9fnb wrote

Nurses sedate patients all the time when they act out. They can't restrain them without lots of rules and paperwork but an anti psychotic and sleeping medicine infection happens with every incident. Edit: this is what happens in the ERs.

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Grass8989 t1_iypale3 wrote

Nurses sedate patients with a doctors order. They can’t take it upon themselves to sedate a patient.

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SolitaryMarmot t1_iypn5p8 wrote

Doctors order haldol for pretty much every psych patient in NYC. You in the CPEP? You are getting a haldol cocktail

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Grass8989 t1_iypnqu2 wrote

Yea it’s called a standing order, that a doctor orders upon evaluation of a patient. You don’t walk into the ER and the nurses take it upon themselves to sedate you.

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ChrisFromLongIsland t1_iyr8ogk wrote

Yes maybe there are doctors in the ER that might have some experience with psych patients and can order medication in a few seconds. The nurses are experienced enough as they deal with this every single day to have the medication drawn up before the doctor orders it and wait for the order so the whole process takes most no time.

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ChrisFromLongIsland t1_iyr81ym wrote

Yes and in a place where their are nurses their is almost 100% if the time a doctor or PA around.

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Amazing-Gap-3320 t1_iypq5n7 wrote

Wrong. Both medications and restraints need to have a doctor’s order.

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ChrisFromLongIsland t1_iyr7saz wrote

Yes as as a patient is going crazy in an ER maybe their are doctors right there.

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