Psych workers use shock treatment as punishment…
In November 2007, a report surfaced that an LPN and a psych aide used electric shocks, used in an aversion therapy(GED), to punish two resident teenagers in the facility. This story, here provided, is disturbing to the core. Firstly because a nurse is involved. Secondly, because we are still using this archaic, obviously abusive “therapy”. It disturbs me, and should disturb you as well, that we use any “therapy” that involves causing pain to a patient. This is a human rights issue…torture can not be disguised as “therapy”. Having your skin shocked, is painful. Full ECT shock is painful. It’s abuse and should be outlawed since there is no evidence that it actually makes a person better. On the contrary, it only makes them worse. I am calling out all you nurses who are supporting this practice to re-read your Nurses Code of Ethics and point number 5 of the Declaration for Human Rights AGAIN. You have a misunderstood concept and should not be practicing nursing in my opinion. A patient puts their health and lives in your trust. When you use outright abuse as a therapy, no matter what a false “science” has said about it’s usefulness, you are not practicing nursing. We are not sheep, we do not follow MDs blindly. If you don’t have the guts to stand up to any MD, psychiatrist, or manager telling you to do something outright abusive to a patient, GET OUT OF NURSING! We need thinkers, we need moral and ethical practitioners, we need heroes, and we need courageous bedside and community nurses who will say no to any therapy that pretends to be helpful when it clearly is not. Stop using electric shock devices on people. It’s abusive. It violates their human rights. Sign this petition:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NrseCall2Arms/