Questionteam 1

 
Daughter2 was supposed to leave the ward today, but on tuesday a new team gathered, so it was decided during their meeting (yesterday)  there would be a meeting on thursday between he, her sister, the therapists, the nurse specialist, the wardnurse... and the psychiatrist who was of course nowhere to be seen.

Now I walk around there again I observe many issues, things that have deteriorated since I worked in the subject and an attitude that makes me think some have either too many jobs at once, too many patients or just don't care at all. They're paid (so all is well), seem to experience no supervision, nor intervision and they also lack insight in the most common diagnoses.

So daughter1 and I got together and formulated some questions for the meeting.

• Which improvements have they seen during her stay?
• Which (new) copingmechanisms has she learned?
• Why do they let her go?
• Which carequestions did they ask?
  
• How is care at home arranged?
  
• Is she able to signal when things go worse?
• Who is available?
• Can she handle the pitfalls?
• What is the treatment plan?
  
• Who is responsible?

For someone who wants to use these questions too?
They all need to be answered in a way all can live with or the patient has to stay.

Daughter 2 will stay until at least monday or tuesday.
They will work in the meantime at some of those questions: especially signalling when the stress gets too high.
In the meantime we, on our side, can make a plan too.

• The friendsgroup will gather each wednesday instead of friday.
• Daughter1 will stay at least 1 day in the weekend.
  
• The neighbourhood nurse has already made an appointment
• etc

The questionteam is a way of dealing with emergency situations I installed many years ago.
It's a way of preparing for a meeting where professionals don't want others to have their say.
The basic thought is that 1 single critical question can elicit a lot of information, or the following silence speaks a thousand words.

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About **Syl

Syl: "Life is a chain of challenges. Sometimes the largest challenges are we ourselves. Facing life, facing others and facing yourself requires either a worryless attitude or plain courage. Most of the time it is dealing with judgement. Maybe life is about getting rid of it."