Wow! i'm sorry for everything you had to go through, i'm glad that your Ok! and that your still here to talk about it today!
The sad thing about this facility, is.. the windows are locked every night. but the building is so old.. you can open the windows from outside
.. and all my CNA's are girls tonight and just as scared as i am LOL.. let me tell you about the police in my area.. they are so mean
last night when the cops did come, he was about in his mid 50's.. i told him about the other night when a man came to the door where i worked (my station is by the glass door) and was masturbating. all he said was, ok we'll look intothat, but how old are you, i told him 19, he said, wow your beautiful, and you've got a nice body, so we gotta keep you protected huh.. and then i was like uhhh.. and he said.. i'll be sure to keep my eye on you.. eww i felt so violated lol..
but the cops here will not drive here to walk us to our cars because the parking lot is in a dark alley and the door is about 20 feet away. .. but still, before we had camera's installed (that dont even record anything if we needed it in the future).. guys would break into all the employee's cars and steal things..
But i TOTALLY agree with you on the patient keeping those valuables with him. when we admit a resident we usually take all the expensive belongings and put them in our safe with their name and everything and also do an inventory check so that we know what they have and everything like that, but this particular man refused.
OH did i mention, the room that was broken into, had a chair outside the window. we NEVER put any chairs outside what so ever. that chair came from the dining room. so we are all stumped as to who put that outside.. (the burglar used it to get in the window).. there were large foot prints (im talking like size 14 shoe, the cops measured it lol)..
i'm just scared i guess.. lol