Violent patients on inpatient

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At the hospitals around here, Code Pink is a baby/child abduction. Code Black is an active shooter. Code Grey is a person being violent for mental health reasons.

 

[comp1]

There's so much interesting unconnected stuff in this thread! Codes are hospital specific. They have literally varied everywhere I worked. The Scientology stuff...I'm not sure it's accurate. I think the poster was referencing the purification rundown? I'm not sure where the concept of isolation even came in. There is a lot of repetition, however. Importantly, Scientologists will not see or "treat" people with serious mental illness.

 

[birchswing]

There's so much interesting unconnected stuff in this thread! Codes are hospital specific. They have literally varied everywhere I worked. The Scientology stuff...I'm not sure it's accurate. I think the poster was referencing the purification rundown? I'm not sure where the concept of isolation even came in. There is a lot of repetition, however. Importantly, Scientologists will not see or "treat" people with serious mental illness.

Purification rundown is their drug treatment. IIRC heavy doses of niacin and saunas.

The introspection rundown is what they use in lieu of emergency psychiatric services. They now have to sign a waiver not holding them liable for injury or death. Not sure how well that would actually hold up. And I'm not sure how often introspection rundowns are even used given how few scientologists there actually are.

But I think you are right. They want people who have money or who will work for almost no money. They are not looking for difficult cases. I think the introspection rundown is for people already in the group who for whatever reason suddenly have a psychiatric emergency. But, no they do not generally want unwell people.

I don't think the concept is entirely foreign. I remember a group I think called Mind Freedom that had some sort of action network where you signed up indicating you expressed your desire not to be involuntarily hospitalized, and I think the idea was that if it came to that this organization would lobby on your behalf to keep you out of the hospital. What they do you with you then, I don't know.

 

[d2305]

I used to have a huge patient, not fat, come in once a month for a prolixin shot. I don't know what I would have done had he become violent. One gets to see a variety when you take medicaid.