“.....if you are going to restrain someone, you had better
know exactly what you are doing.”
You hit it right on the head. I have worked for a
residential treatment facility for the past 18 years. We work with severely emotionally disturbed teen
boys. At times some of them need to be restrained for
their own safety and the safety of others. We
receive many hours of training every year. Part of the training includes trainees reading from cases
taken from the Internet regarding kids who died
of suffocation resulting from faulty floor
restraints. It is truly sad and eye opening. We
have had both kids and staff injured in
restraints but have never had a kid pay the
ultimate price.
Suicide by minimum wage employee. Hope they raise it to 15.
18 years. Wow. I admire your courage and carefulness with the difficult patients and clients. Life is fragile and the disabled, ill and elderly need kid gloves and they always need a tough guardian.