For three years now, my day job (that is, the one I get paid
for) has been in Behavioral Health.
Mental Heatlh.
A psych ward.
Now, at my previous facility (I
have since moved halfway across the country), I worked first and second shifts,
which meant that I had a lot of interaction with patients, something I kind of
miss now that I’m a third-shifter. Anyway, on Tuesdays from three to four in
the afternoon, there was a group scheduled, but there was no one to lead said
group, which resulted in the patients simply sitting in the dayroom and
watching a video. There were two problems with this: one, we only had two
videos that actually worked and two, any patient who had been there before (and
there were a few) or had been there for more than a week had probably already
seen both of them. I felt bad for the patients, having to sit through the same
two depressing videos over and over again, so I asked if there was something
else we could do.
