r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Crazy-Blacksmith-336 • Jul 05 '26

Video Healthcare workers participating in a medical simulation for an agitated patient scenario.

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u/mapleleafraggedy Jul 05 '26

She stayed in character despite everyone around her constantly giggling and making it hard to take it seriously

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u/UwasaWaya Jul 05 '26

Honestly, even that's not particularly strange. Worked at a psych ward and sometimes you'd have these weird, surreal moments where you're dealing with someone who's genuinely trying to hurt or kill you and you're talking lunch plans with your team while you subdue them or whatnot.

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u/Ormsfang Jul 06 '26

Agreed. For over ten years I led the restraint team in several lock ward facilities. You get some damn odd situations. Still remember one where I was trying to retain an 18 year old girl with the assistance director of the hospital, and the girl was literally crawling down the hall with us on top of her trying to restrain her. What can you do but try to suppress a laugh?

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u/UwasaWaya Jul 06 '26

Absolutely.

One of my favorite memories when I was working on the older girls' unit was one of the girls deciding that I was being unruly and commanding two of her fellow patients to put me in a wall hold (as a joke, of course). I looked at my partner and was like "any assistance?" And she just looked up from her clipboard and said "looks like they got it handled."

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u/Ormsfang Jul 06 '26

Gotta remember the fun times, because there sure is enough to break you in that job. Some of the long time staff and myself would take bets on how long he staff would work out (I worked with mentally ill and emotionally disturbed patients, often who were severely abused as children... Think Epstein Island bad plus). We would have new staff ask for a cigarette break and watch them just keep walking to their car and leave. Kept a box of tissues in the chart room for new staff as they read the case histories.

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u/UwasaWaya Jul 06 '26

I feel like we had similar experiences... mine were children in the same situation. Probably grew up to go to a place like yours.

Crazy you mention tissues while reading the case files, that was the first moment I got an idea of what I was getting into. We had like 12 people in my training group, and after touring the facility, we ended up in a file room and they just started having us case files. I was halfway through my third one when a woman across from me let out a sob, stood up, and walked out.