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I have an atheist patient who was very upset because he does not like our Christmas decorations and Christmas music played in the activities for the past days of December. This patient says it offends him to even look at our nativity set which is up in the activity room (this is shared with a dining room). Another patient pointed out to him that even if Christmas is not part of one's own culture/religion, it is part of our collective American culture, whether you believe in the religious part or not.
I will be getting a Menorah and having a celebration for Kwanzaa later in the month. This patient has agreed to help me with the "non-christian holiday celebrations activity" (basically a history reading).
I don't expect all the patients to love Christmas, but our whole staff contributed to our decorations, and everyone is very excited about our first Christmas. We are in a small ADHC and the company began with a religious group many years ago.
Any suggestions how to see the positive in one patient acting up? It's really not fun to be yelled at after putting so much effort into making the holidays special for our patients. Thanks for your thoughts.
P.s. I meant this post to show up in open discussion. Oops! This particular case is more related to mental health. This situation is not AD related. We have a lot of bipolar patients and other mental illnesses. We are just getting new Schizophrenic patients. On another note that is related- Does anyone have care plan resources for Mental Illnesses>? Many of the books I have relate to Dementia. Thanks again.
Edited by ILoveMyLVN, 08 December 2008 - 09:41 PM.
