Walked off my job
A patient left our facility, went across the street, shoplifted a bottle of booze, came back drunk and started threatening to damage all the staff cars in the parking lot.
The head of the faculty who is an RN said it wasn’t her patient- clinical needed to deal with it. The staff was on teams asking that the police be called. We need permission to call the police. At that point I punched out. I’m not clinical, nothing was being done and I wasn’t waiting for him to smash my car. I left. I just knew what would happen - he was going to be brought back up to the unit despite breaking every rule we have against aggression. We have no security and staff have apparently no right to safety.
When I texted my boss that I left early and why, I was told the patient seemed nice now that he’s drunk and did I plan to make up the time. For real. That assertion aged like milk.
The patient shifted and said he wanted to stay at the facility and indeed was brought back up to the unit on the grounds that if he got hurt it could be a sentinel event. Then he shifted again and left with his girlfriend who was also a patient. He had booze hidden and the two of them gulped it down right in the grounds.
Things escalated and his girlfriend started throwing rocks at our cars. When staff started complaining that since nothing was being done they expected the facility would pay for any damages to personal vehicles, they were told to act like professionals on teams.
This morning the lobby windows were broken and several staff cars did have their windows broken. The police had finally been called but the patients got away before they could be arrested.
I made a list of my caseload, where I left off on every case, sent it to my boss and quit.