How do you keep them from breaking a CD and cutting themselves with it?
Hope & pray.
Really. Its stupid. A committee has determined which rights patients have--no matter how bad they act. Access to a CD player with CDs is one of them. I'm not kidding. So if someone breaks a CD and uses it as a weapon, oops too bad, they still have the right to a CD player & CD.
Now if a patient is agitated, they could of course have any item taken away from them, but when the agitation stops, they can get that CD player back.
I've tried--believe me I have--pretty much figuratively (not literally) bashing my head into a wall wondering who the people were in this committee & wishing they could be the one to take down an agitated patient with a broken CD.
Kinda like the 1000 other strange & idiotic rules in a state facility. E.g. a patient can go on a day pass, and the staff are convinced he's bringing back contraband, but the only thing we're allowed to do is put the person through a metal detector. As if plastic knives, cigarettes, broken glass, paper money, a wooden police billy club etc would be detected. During residency, all admitted patients had their clothes taken off, were put in gowns & their clothes were searched. However the forensic facility where people have been found NGRI or incompetent to stand trial for things such as murder, manslaughter, felonius assault, aggravated arson---these people don't get the same treatment.
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