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<blockquote data-quote="MsMichelle" data-source="post: 53214" data-attributes="member: 3835"><p>I found that when my son was hospitalized the weekend staff was by far less professional and appeared to have had less training. It seemed at my son's hospital that the regular (maybe had been there longer and got the "better" shifts) week day staff were better equipped to handle my son's rages. </p><p></p><p>Obviously, I am new here and don't know your personality, so take this with a grain of salt: Please say something to who ever is your contact person about your concerns, spell it out exactly like you did here. They need to know. I know it is all about picking battles and choosing where it is most important for you to expend your energy, but this might be pretty important. </p><p></p><p>There was one staff who I only saw on the weekends that worked a total of one weekend with my son (two eight hour shifts). She was the most unprofessional person on the entire staff. My son does NOT do well with being told "NO" directly. This woman did not ease the negatives in on my son like I had noticed the other "Pediatric Mental Health Specialists" (example:"we'll have time for a video right after talk time. Can you tell me two things you can do to help yourself calm down?') There were several times she just blatantly told him, "NO. You can't!" "NO. You aren't doing that now!", etc etc etc. My son is a consumate button pusher and when she said NO, he dug his little heels in and demanded a good reason. Her reason, which might work fine with typical kids, was "Because I am the boss and I said, NO!". My son destroyed the day room right after that, threw chairs, over turned tables, dumped out huge bins of leggos, opened and scattered all the board games, tore up art work, threw paint on wall, stripped naked and screamed all manners of obscenities. He had wanted to watch a video and it was time to do "group". The other staff had cued in that somehow, the word "group" pissed him off so they called it "talk time". 5 minutes of "talk time" and then he would have had 30 minutes of video time. I left a voice mail for our Clinician that evening and was at her office the very next day at 9am to discuss my concerns. That weekend was the 2nd that my son was there and was by far the worst 2 days of both of his stays. She was crappy. .</p><p></p><p>The management should be clued in to what is going on on the weekends. Mine was the 3rd complaint in as many weeks for that gal. She was moved to another unit i.e. not working with kids with mental illness/behavior disorders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MsMichelle, post: 53214, member: 3835"] I found that when my son was hospitalized the weekend staff was by far less professional and appeared to have had less training. It seemed at my son's hospital that the regular (maybe had been there longer and got the "better" shifts) week day staff were better equipped to handle my son's rages. Obviously, I am new here and don't know your personality, so take this with a grain of salt: Please say something to who ever is your contact person about your concerns, spell it out exactly like you did here. They need to know. I know it is all about picking battles and choosing where it is most important for you to expend your energy, but this might be pretty important. There was one staff who I only saw on the weekends that worked a total of one weekend with my son (two eight hour shifts). She was the most unprofessional person on the entire staff. My son does NOT do well with being told "NO" directly. This woman did not ease the negatives in on my son like I had noticed the other "Pediatric Mental Health Specialists" (example:"we'll have time for a video right after talk time. Can you tell me two things you can do to help yourself calm down?') There were several times she just blatantly told him, "NO. You can't!" "NO. You aren't doing that now!", etc etc etc. My son is a consumate button pusher and when she said NO, he dug his little heels in and demanded a good reason. Her reason, which might work fine with typical kids, was "Because I am the boss and I said, NO!". My son destroyed the day room right after that, threw chairs, over turned tables, dumped out huge bins of leggos, opened and scattered all the board games, tore up art work, threw paint on wall, stripped naked and screamed all manners of obscenities. He had wanted to watch a video and it was time to do "group". The other staff had cued in that somehow, the word "group" pissed him off so they called it "talk time". 5 minutes of "talk time" and then he would have had 30 minutes of video time. I left a voice mail for our Clinician that evening and was at her office the very next day at 9am to discuss my concerns. That weekend was the 2nd that my son was there and was by far the worst 2 days of both of his stays. She was crappy. . The management should be clued in to what is going on on the weekends. Mine was the 3rd complaint in as many weeks for that gal. She was moved to another unit i.e. not working with kids with mental illness/behavior disorders. [/QUOTE]
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