DEATH TO THE ALARM!

[SuesquatchRN]

Got a fiercely independent frequent faller. Disconnects his clip alarms, breaks the chair alarms.

We rig up an alarm on his bathroom door. That's Wednesday. By Friday, after repeatedly cursing us out, he grabbed a cane and beat it to death.

(Yes, he has already signed an AMA....)

[OncallRN]

I work at a place that has a motion senser alarm where the sound emitting part is at the desk so the pt never has to hear it.

I found it very anoying but I guess it works

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

I work at a place that has a motion senser alarm where the sound emitting part is at the desk so the pt never has to hear it.

I found it very anoying but I guess it works

That's interesting. Hmmm....

[tencat]

I love it when annoying pieces of machinery get the snot beat out of them....Yay to the guy with the cane!

[Moogie]

I work at a place that has a motion senser alarm where the sound emitting part is at the desk so the pt never has to hear it.

I found it very anoying but I guess it works

One of our residents heard one in the middle of the night and thought Avon was calling!

[StNeotser, ASN, RN]

Not so secretly. Activities and PT keep coming up with new interventions and I can't just say, "Bite me." So I acquiesce and then silently cheer when he beats the crap out of the annoyance.

Every time someone has a fall in our facility we have to think up a new intervention.

So I covered the noc shift one night. There were two little old ladies sharing a semi private room who used to do helpful things for each other, like turn each others oxygen concentrators off because they were loud and annoying. It was like trying to get into the temple of doom going in that room without setting off an alarm. Both had tab alarms (they figured them out) then they had bed alarms, then they had a motion sensor each and a motion sensor by the oxygen concentrator.

Another time we had found a window screen punched out in a guys room. Couldn't find his tab alarm. Guess what went out the window?

Good for your guy Suesquatch.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Every time someone has a fall in our facility we have to think up a new intervention.

Yeah, we're protecting them right into insanity!

Those two LOLs sound like a hoot!

[calliesue]

Originally Posted by OncallRN

I work at a place that has a motion senser alarm where the sound emitting part is at the desk so the pt never has to hear it.

I found it very anoying but I guess it works

That's interesting. Hmmm....

I love that cause some patients are so far down the hall you can't hear their alarms

We too have to think up new interventions after each fall, gets to be a challenge.

Sue,

How would the charting go on that incident?

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Sue,

How would the charting go on that incident?

Alarm on bathroom door placed 2/21 2o resident's refusal to accept help with transfer and continuing to toilet and transfer himself. Resident did state, "Get that (his actual words) out of here!" Writer explained that it was for his safety. He responded, "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH>" This continued for 30 minutes. CNA told this writer that resident had a cane in his hand and was flailing it and threatening to break the alarm. He did. Will remove cane when resident is asleep and continue to monitor.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

wouldnt removing the cane be contraindicated? Unless he turned it on staff?

it would seem the only thing to do would be a remote alarm.....

has he been seen by psych? is he A+O?

has he fallen? or only been judged a "risk to"?

worked at a place who had a young Huntington's patient.....the had stopped writing any new interventions, because there wasnt anything left!

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

He doesn't use the cane any more - non-amb. However, we can not have residents brandishing something that can be used as a dangerous instrumentality.

If he saw anything that remotely looked like a sensor, etc he would find something else to beat to death.

He falls every couple of weeks. Broke his hip a few months ago. COntinues to self-transfer.

Has been seen by psych. In bi-weekly therapy.

He HAS signed an AMA.