Home Health: Need Help

[Rosey02]

I have a client who has multiple pressure sores on body. I spoke with nurse and she said in order to get pressure reducing matress we need 4 things. Weight, Wound Measurements, Nutritional Eval; and Lab Work. We have gotten 3/4 tasks completed. The hospital refused to weigh the client yesterday. The client is bed bound and has greater than 5/10 pain most of the time. I just need one weight...How can I make this possible. He does have a hoyer lift at home so I'm going to call around and see if there is a scale I can borrow to attach to it. I was able to get into the CL chart but no recent weight for this month has been recorded. Am I able to use a weight that was taken back in January of this year?

It frustrates me that the hospital would not aid in this situation.

[Sunflowerinsc, ADN, RN]

Is the patient in the hospital now? I'm not sure by your post. If he is, how did the hospital weigh him ? Hospital beds have a build in scale or if not the hoyer lift does.

[Rosey02]

He is at home...and the LPN and I both made requests to the physician he was seeing yesterday to obtain a weight. The physician did not put in the order for a weight. The mom took the CL down to ER and they would not weight him either. Being at home..he only has a standard hospital bed with no weight scale. I've called around to all the DME companies to see if they have anything to help us. He also saw a nutritionist at the end of March who failed to put a weight or height on her visit summary with him.