It goes with the job. You have to learn how to try to calm people down.
Some people just can’t be handled with words alone, that’s why medical facilities used to have big burly orderlies to keep things from getting out of hand.
I have to wonder if they are still there or if they’ve been down sized and affirmative actioned out of existence?
There are no professionals I have more admiration for than nurses, they are the heart and soul of any medical facility while taking all the crap (literally) day in and day out. I couldn’t do it and I respect beyond words those who can.
“It goes with the job. You have to learn how to try to calm people down.”
Yes, that works so well when the patient is in full blown DTs. I’ve been bitten, punched, and kicked by people in DTs. I’ve seen 5’2” women have to be restrained by 4 men so I could give her an injection of a sedative. Show me a nurse that believes every patient can be calmly talked down and I’ll show you a nurse that has very little experience with psych patients.
That’s one of the reasons OR nursing is so good. Out for the count patients are seldom a problem.
Yep, I’d calm ‘em down....with a .357 Magnum.
“You have to learn how to try to calm people down.
A “there, there,” doesn’t work with crackheads, psychotics, or violent offenders.
~Neither does restraints sometimes.
etomidate, followed with vecurion or succinyl choline and then propofol infusion.
If you FEEL like it...well then you can put a tube in their airway and let the ventilator breathe for them...or not.