Posted on 12/18/2004 8:20:37 PM PST by yankeedame
21st Century meets Murder in the Rue Morgue.
'Put ze candle down.'
LOL. Could it be that not all 1198 people work at the same time? Perhaps not all the employees work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You know, like, maybe they work shifts or somethin'.
It was just a cheap hit by me on the French anyway - No real logic intended. :-)
Actually, the British use the word 'torch' instead of 'flashlight' like Americans.
"Where were the other 1198 staff while this hideous violence was going on? "
200 housekeepers on break or off
4 security guards on a smoke break
300 administative staff- nowhere near the patient care area
200 grounds keepers
250 dietary workers
30 maintainance workers- on holiday
100 nurse managers- at a conference in Nice
50 nurses called in faility wide
62 other actual nurses divided by three shifts
the other nurse was on smoke break
As you have pointed out, the important consideration is what the staffing levels were for the patient load.
I am a psychiatrist and part of my job is taking care of large numbers of inpatients on an acute care mental health unit in northern Minnesota. People in these settings are capable of monstrous behaviors and need to be adequately supervised. Clearly there are security issues on any unit where psychiatric patients have access to anything capable of being used in a decapitation.
As an aside, several years ago, I was so angry at our administration about issues within our department, that I interviewed for jobs in a foreign country with a socialized health care system. Within the previous year, there had been two completed suicides on the foreign unit security hospital setting. In eighteen years, there had never been a suicide on my units. We dealt with vastly higher numbers of more disturbed patients than they did. There problems were obvious to me and were directly related to physical plant design and to staffing levels.
If the act had been committed by an inmate it would still be damning but the fact that a number of what appears to be out-of-place bums could break windows, slaughter two nurses and leave - And the crime not be discovered until staff arrived for shift change is scary.
Makes one wonder what the patients are able to do to themselves or other patients in the midst of such obvious out of control supervision.
Also, Europeans are all on phony disability anyway, so the staffing numbers are completely bogus.
THis sounds like a scene from Halloween II.
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