Does anyone work in Rehab secure Mental Health - Reaside?

[Charl58]

Hi, thanks in advance for your time.

I'm just wondering if anyone has ever worked in Rehab secure care or Reaside on other wards and able to share what it's like to work there?

Is it a relatively low volatile role?

Any experiences will be appreciated, thank you 🙂

I done some placements on a low secure rehab ward when doing my nurse training some years ago. I was in St Bernard’s which has changed now. The ward was pretty slow. My experience was that it is not volatile most patients are pretty stable and their difficulties are more chronic in nature. Of course people can become acutely unwell but they are often moved. In my experience acute wards, PICU’s and medium secure units are more volatile. Rehabs are more are about encouraging independence and longer term recovery.
hope this helps.

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. I am very grateful. In your experience on those more volatile wards were staff happy to work together to intervene and diffuse challenging situations?

Yes you tend to get know patients quite well and you can usually sense if someone is becoming frustrated or situations are escalating. Most of the time talking with patients can help diffuse things and this can be with whoever the person may respond best to and there is always lots of staff around. If things escalate you have alarms you carry and can press and you will have a response team attend to help with the situation. It’s always a team approach and I have never worked anywhere where I would be expected to manage such situations on my own. Will you be working on a rehab ward? Have you worked in mental health before? It’s a very challenging but very rewarding job.

Thank you for your clarification and reassurance 🙂 I've worked as a HCA in general nursing for 10 years, and I do have some experience working with mental.healtj patients.

I think I'm probably just apprehensive about my new role because is a new environment, different style of nursing ect 🙂

I really hope I will enjoy it 🙂