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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 524213" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>aog, you have good instincts. trust them. period. they exist for a very good, biological, survival of the species reason. They exist to make srue your child is an evolutionary winner, meanng he lives long enough to have kids. those instincts tell us when something is wrong and <strong>they don't lie</strong>. i don't care who says this is okay, you know it is isn't. the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) should not ever be unresponsive. my difficult child was on a psychiatric hospital ward for 4 mos at a residential psychiatric hospital and some of the staff was much like you describe as far as education and training, but they were never the only ones on duty. this was partly because it was a hospital setting, but also because they needed to be there and the orderlies - ones with hs diploma and on the job training - were not legally allowed to be the only supervision. At no time did the kids, age 12-17, get rowdy with-o staff responding. even if the nurse was setting up medications and the orderlies were busy supervising other things, the kids who got rowdy only had until the nurse could lock the medications down - and they were set up near a special cabinet that the whole tray could be locked in asap - before the nurse could get to them and stop tehm. this was totally paid for by medicare and whle not the fanciest, did keep the kdis safe and did reach a lot of them.</p><p></p><p>this is not a good placement. please, trust your instincts and find a new place. something is very wrong there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 524213, member: 1233"] aog, you have good instincts. trust them. period. they exist for a very good, biological, survival of the species reason. They exist to make srue your child is an evolutionary winner, meanng he lives long enough to have kids. those instincts tell us when something is wrong and [B]they don't lie[/B]. i don't care who says this is okay, you know it is isn't. the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) should not ever be unresponsive. my difficult child was on a psychiatric hospital ward for 4 mos at a residential psychiatric hospital and some of the staff was much like you describe as far as education and training, but they were never the only ones on duty. this was partly because it was a hospital setting, but also because they needed to be there and the orderlies - ones with hs diploma and on the job training - were not legally allowed to be the only supervision. At no time did the kids, age 12-17, get rowdy with-o staff responding. even if the nurse was setting up medications and the orderlies were busy supervising other things, the kids who got rowdy only had until the nurse could lock the medications down - and they were set up near a special cabinet that the whole tray could be locked in asap - before the nurse could get to them and stop tehm. this was totally paid for by medicare and whle not the fanciest, did keep the kdis safe and did reach a lot of them. this is not a good placement. please, trust your instincts and find a new place. something is very wrong there. [/QUOTE]
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