Had a lady come in with acute exacerbation of her schizophrenia. Always a fun thing... Anyway, she was practically dragged to us by her friend b/c of her dangerous tendencies during these episodes. I felt bad for the lady, but she sure was entertaining to speak with. She accused us all of being government agents who were in league with her enemies. And who were her enemies you might ask? Why, her neighborhood of course! They had apparently all gone to Walmart and picked up some discount nuclear missiles and bombs with which to accost her. I was surprised that she let us draw blood from her at all really, but she said that we'd only devise some form of torture for her if she didn't cooperate.
About 1 hr after she arrived, I guess she got tired of watching us walk by in the hall. She shoved past our CNA who was doing a one-on-one observation and vaulted over the desk that serves as the nurse's station. She landed on the copier and took it down with her, after which she claimed it was an explosive device that we were planning to "insert" in her (still not sure how she thought we planned to pull that off.) Security was all over her by then and got a firm hold on her. A little Ativan injection to her gluteus, and 20 minutes later she was at least calm enough to be wheeled up to the psych floor finally. I really don't know how y'all psych nurses do it. Bravo to you. There's no way I could deal with that over and over.
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