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Well I started my new position yesterday! I like it a lot. The only major difference besides it being more clinical and us being the actual "treatment" team is that the clients are much more agressive. Most of them can (and do!) become violent if they go off their meds. My first day yesterday I got to ride in the back of a cop car cuz we had to call 911 on a client who was becoming agressive. But we plan ahead too before we go to the client's home (ie. calling 911 before going into the home) so we never have to put ourselves in a dangerous situation.The Director also wants us to try to go out two at a time too so we are never alone. The client we had hospitalized yesterday, it was pretty scary because the EMT who showed up knows him pretty well from having to go there a lot. She said he kicked her once in the stomach and she also saw him punch the hospital Social Worker in the face one other time. Anyone else have experience working with violent clients?
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