Violations of Human Rights, Violations of the Law on Patients' Rights
(1) In the inpatient treatment units of 2 Steam Street protocol - the means of physical fixation are hidden under the patient covers so that the head of the department does not see it. Absolutely calm patients who sleep during fixation and do not need fixation are also tied to the beds. (2) New staff are told not to talk to patients, not to listen to or believe in patients, not to go to wards at all, and patients are shouted - although according to staff job descriptions and the institution's Code of Ethics, patients should be treated with respect, its changes, patients must be provided with full-fledged care (which is not possible with such discriminatory treatment). (3) There is physical violence between patients, which staff do not try to prevent, but only ridicule. (4) Sanitary work in an institution shall be in a state of intoxication, alcohol shall be used, which shall also be offered to other employees. (5) Prospective employees are deceived by false promises in vacancies - the institution offers a friendly work team, but communication with a couple of sanitary workers reveals that they think psychiatry is "stupid", that no one can help mentally ill patients and that anyone who wants mentally ill treat people "crazy" himself. The question arises - why are people with such views employed in psychiatric care institutions at all? (6) The website of the institution indicates that patients are treated voluntarily, but according to the nurses - there are also people in the institution who do not need inpatient treatment, but whose relatives do not want to take care of the people and thus pay the institution to be on Tvaika Street. kept for as long as possible. (7) Most sanitary workers I come across do not have adequate knowledge of how to care for patients with mental illness - non-aggressive, polite patients are humiliated, ridiculed, reprimanded, for example, even if they are unable to make their own beds (although clean bed linen should be taken care of by the sanitary workers themselves. ) We ask people with the appropriate competence to provide whitening groups, burnout prevention measures and medical ethics training for Steam Street 2 staff so that patients do not have to suffer any more because of the staff!
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