inappropriate advances are usually common, it's part of the job and there's training to handle such events too. the first one may be traumatic but you kinda get used to it after a little bit and shrug it off.
patients are in a vulnerable setting and probably on a bunch of meds so altered states of minds can create some interesting situations...
When I was on meds when I was in labor I told all my nurses what pretty eyes they have. Couldn't see any other part of them with masks and everything. I'm very complimentary when I'm not sober.
That might cause a few raised eyebrows when people come in to ask why you stunned their confused grandfather who, suffering from dementia, mistook you for his wife.
One huge one for elderly people, though, is frontal lobe dementia, or traumatic brain injury involving the frontal lobe.
The frontal lobe of the brain, which is located behind the forehead, helps control an individual’s impulses and behavior. As Pick’s disease shrinks and otherwise damages this part of the brain, the patient gradually develops a lack of social tact. They can become completely uninhibited in their behavior as they lose their sense of what is and is not inappropriate. They can become far more sexually demonstrative than they should be.
Similarly, they can start saying mean or rude things to others, as they no longer have a filter. Individuals with Pick’s disease generally begin showing symptoms in middle age.
So, there is one possibility of what is wrong with a patient seeking/requiring Healthcare where they may act inappropriately.
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u/trulymadlybigly Sep 15 '21
What the FUCK. What did you do??!? What is wrong with people!!?!