Heehee The DPH came in and told us we use siderails too much! Hello, falls hurt people!
jennifer
Could you tell me how it is possible to "use siderails too much"? How endangered does a patient have to be before you can use the siderails?
Right before my Dad died, he was in a nursing home, suffering the after effects of a massive brain bleed. Having enough mental awareness to know the condition he was in, and being determined not to stick around any longer, he began attempting to throw himself out of his wheelchair to the floor.
It happened twice before they called me. And when I demanded to know why they hadn't restrained him, they informed me that they needed me to come down there to sign paperwork that would allow him to be restrained in the chair. They absolutely REFUSED to do it until I arrived and put my signature on that paper.
How much greater would their liability have been now that they had already admitted knowing what he was trying to do and refusing to prevent it? My urge to slap the crap out of the bossy little bureaucrat I had to deal with was obvious enough to make Dad's blessed nurse come and lead me away before I assaulted the woman.
Sorry to wander so far off topic, but Official Stupidity makes me crazy and furious.
Raineypark