So for those of you who don't know, I work at a mental hospital. It's so interesting, some of the stuff you see, and due to patient privacy we can't tell a lot of the stories that we get from work, nor can people just walk in and see the units and what is on them, because patients are around, and that would be breaching their privacy. So I got some pictures of what it's like in there and made sure I didn't get any patients or patient information just to keep everything legal. :) PS my job is so cool...at least I think so!
A real life padded room....
This is a patient bed, and this particular bed was being used by a patient who needed restraints.
We keep watch of things on the cameras if we aren't able to be in five places at once. Plus its just good to have video recordings in case someone makes accusations.
This is one of the tech desks. We sit in here and chart, or if the patients are asleep we can sit there and keep a watch of the hallway.
For some reason the patients get a KICK out of scratching off letters on the signs. If you can't tell, this used to say "Toilet Room". You gotta have a sense of humor around here...
View from the outside of the seclusion rooms (aka padded rooms). We watch the patients through the glass if they are locked in there to make sure they aren't hurting themselves. They can't see anything through the glass though (its a two-way mirror)
This is one of the hallways on one of the units. So it's not like a "hospital" type place, I mean, it IS, but, they try to make it kind of like a really big home or something. Even though its as ghetto as ever.
Anyways, interesting huh! Peace out, girl scout. I want to post some poems some schizophrenic patients wrote but I am not sure if that's legal.....so...I will forgo that for now....
1 comment:
Wow that was really interesting.
Always wandered how a mental hospital looks like from the inside.
So thanks for that :)
Its great you have a job you like :P
greetings G.
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