A report following that visit, published on Thursday, found some improvements in care but highlighted significant concerns about staffing and the treatment of some children.<\/p>\n
One patient reported being told she was “pathetic” and “selfish” for needing to be fed using a nasogastric tube.<\/p>\n
Another said that if she self-harmed, some nurses would not clean blood from her face before walking through the ward area to the treatment room.<\/p>\n
The findings of the report included a “significant issue” with staffing levels at the facility, with some staff reporting feeling “burnt out” as a result of the pressure they were working under.<\/p>\n
The report found patients and families were positive about most members of staff but said they had concerns about the attitudes of others.<\/p>\n
It found nursing staff were regularly working additional hours, and that there was a reliance on temporary “bank” staff or staff from adult wards, who it was said “did not understand how to interact with teenagers”.<\/p>\n
The report also raised concerns about the way the use of restraint by staff was being recorded, including under-reporting the number of times a child was restrained.<\/p>\n
Young people described restraints from untrained agency staff as “rough” but found all recorded instances were “proportionate to the level of risk being managed”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report following that visit, published on Thursday, found some improvements in care but highlighted significant concerns about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-291281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}