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The One With the Double Standards



  Someone commented on one of my Facebook posts today, “imagine going to work everyday and people interfering with you trying to do your job.”

My response:

“I DO. I go to work as a psych nurse and get harassed by others daily…

By verbally and physically assauktive patients interfering with us and with the care we can give to other patients,

By the ER not doing their job and coming over and harassing us to take more patients then we can safely take, or those who are not yet ACTUALLY medically cleared,

By visitors screaming at us and threatening our jobs and our lives,

And by police bringing us people who are criminals …instead of arresting them. That’s part of the job. I/we know what I’m/we’re signing up when we go into these fields. I’ve been physically attacked and guess who DID NOT help me out? My coworkers who sat there while she was escalating, and the officer I gave my written statement to, who DECIDED to put it down as “harrassment” instead of an “assault” when I was out of work for 9 months.
I didn’t find out til months later that he did that when I called the DA office to see why I hadn’t heard anything.

Meanwhile she was working out in the community as if she hadn’t just assaulted three people.

Oh and you wanna know why the officers probably didn’t file my attack as an assault? Because THEY were the ones who brought her to us after having been in the process of arresting her FOR ASSAULT in the community. But as these smart criminals often do to get out of arrests, she faked psychosis and so the police decided instead to bring a criminal in to crisis. Jails have mental health professionals - I’ve worked in one.

I’ve also had multiple officers multiple times admit that they’d rather “bring them to crisis than do paperwork.” So, as we all should, I take it case by case.

Therefore, I don’t blanket statement anything.
Law enforcement has good guys and bad guys just like everything else. This case is not about “backing the blue” type shit. This is about being ABLE to look at this particular situation and know that the ICE agent acted out of his jurisdiction.

ALL law enforcement does NOT deserve my support. You need to earn my trust and respect just like anyone else in life.

#corruption #ice #psychnurse #mentalhealth #thelifeofapsychnurse

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