Specialties Geriatric
Published Jul 4, 2007
You are reading page 2 of Lap buddies, do most LTC facilities still allow them?
SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN
10,263 Posts
We use nothing. We often have LOLs - and the occasional LOM - falling asleep in the chair and landing ass over teakettle on the floor then to the ED.
They have the RIGHT to fall.
Even those Posey belts that they can open themselves require an order, seven care plan meetings, documentation q shift, and watching them open them.
nightmare, RN
1 Article; 1,297 Posts
Bean chairs are quite good for the Houdinis! CC don't like them but if it saves a fractured NOF then as long as they aren't used all day they are worth it.
BoopetteRN
71 Posts
For our residents who turn off the alarm, we use a small black metal box that is pad locked, the key is available to the CNAs, our maintainance department made the boxes and they work well. We do have one resident how has a lap buddy which he can remove himself, but we follow all the restraint paperwork and have persmission from his POA. 1 resident out of 248 is not bad
A lap buddy is a foam pad that is placed in the front of a resident in a wheelchair that is attached through the armrests.