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Reply Sun 16 Jul, 2006 06:06 pm
How far is too far?
Question How far is too far when you are sexually harassed by your patients. I love my job as a field nurse working with geriatric patients, but I have run into a few very lonesome clients. A few have hinted around to a date, but I have one that was just a little to bold! He lives alone, on O2 N/C, walks with a cane. He has been getting too close during visits, but I just move over and continue my visit quite quickly. This last visit he just came out and asked me for some ----y, and that is exactly how he asked and slapped me on the behind with his cane. I am the only field lvn in a very small company with 12 patients and he is very sick and needs the nursing visits and not another nurse to pick him upl. What do I do? I have already informed the agency. My first instinct was to slap him, but I remembered that I was a nurse with a license to keep.
 
Ginger Snap
 
Reply Mon 17 Jul, 2006 11:32 am
Just tell him to knock it off.

I work in a facility w/ psych pts, and some of them can be inappropriately sexually with the staff and other residents. So the standard answer is to tell them stop it, that their behavior is inappropriate. There's nothing wrong with that.

The next step is to let your agency know you are uncomfortable with his behavior. If he can't curb his behavior, there is nothing wrong with helping this man find another nurse to work with him (preferably male). But you have to act like an adult, and deal with the problem directly and firmly.
 
rascal
 
Reply Wed 19 Jul, 2006 09:08 am
i have worked in the alzheimers lock down unit at a nursing home as an aide. and i give them a VERY stern eye and tell them....
NO, do not talk to me that way. NO, do not touch me that way again.
move your hand and put your hand in your own lap.
and i tell them that i will report this to the nurse.
and i do report it. sometimes i tell them that i dont think my husband would like it very much if i were to go with another man.
or.... if my husband heard you say that to me, it would make him really angry so do not say things like that to me.
hope this helps.
and if it doesnt stop, i would tell someone that you would prefer not to work helping this one.
 
 

 
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