He wasn't according to the added info Holly posted. I doubt there is training that addresses how to disarm a 93 yr. old with one leg in a wheel chair.
But there’s no info on what happened before that. Separating the violent resident from other residents and trying to reduce stimulation are both absolutely correct conduct in such situations. The question, for me, remains: what happened between the onset of the violent behavior and the arrival of the police?
All you needed was a competent employee with a syringe of haldol,lights out.
Umm … no. It takes more than one trained employee to do a psych take-down, which is what you are describing. And that’s regardless of him being one-legged or in a wheelchair. Once the other residents are safe from attack by the agitated resident, the top priority becomes the safety of the resident, himself, and of the staff. This is why we need to know what happened before the police decided on their course of action.
In 50 years at the bedside, I know a little bit of something as well. It’s tangential to the subject of this thread, but the restrictions on use of both chemical (haldol) and physical restraints didn’t arise out of thin air just because the authorities wanted to flex. Widespread abuses had a whole lot to do with it, at least in the US.
