Below is a short list of how I expect to be treated if I end up in a home, as well as the likely outcomes if someone dares to step out of line.
1. Do NOT come try to drag me out of bed at 5 a.m. telling me "It's your shower day." You will get combativeness the likes the world has never seen.
2. Do not label the above as a "behavior" and try to have me put on a psychotropic. How would you like to be dragged out of bed against your will, stripped naked and hosed down that early in the morning by a total stranger?
3. Do not label me "a behavior problem" and again get me put on psychotropics/anxiolytics without 1st assessing me for pain. Have I had a BM lately? Maybe I'm hungry, thirsty, cold, uncomfortable, wet, etc...address those possibilities first, please.
4. If I'm yelling a lot, and often, refer to #3.
5. If you find me asleep in my w/c frequently, for Pete's sake put me to bed!
I'm not asking much. Just please take care of me. Thank you.
Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
I think we need a hot weather and a cold weather option, because some of us will want to experience the change of seasons. So,we need two parcels of land. Hawaii and someplace in New England?
My care plan is done and my HCP knows what I want....no shoes no socks (Cape Cod kid), no thickened liquids, I will not get out of bed before 9, I will drink as much wine as I want when I want it. I've already been told I won't be admitted where I work now because they all know I won't be compliant. My answer...I hope by the time I need to live in a facility, compliance won't be a word anyone uses.[/quote']
Hi I think I am going to like my job. I am working in a facility with only 39 units. The clients have Alzhiemer's dementia. The other clients are assisted living clients. I wish other facilities would have this kind of system. I don't believe Long term care should have so many people in a building. The care they get is so very sad. I don't believe families would want that for their loved one.
And please don't put a plate full of technicolored puddles in front of me and expect me to eat. I don't like beets now, and am fairly certain I won't like them in "goo" form either.
Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Below is a short list of how I expect to be treated if I end up in a home, as well as the likely outcomes if someone dares to step out of line.
1. Do NOT come try to drag me out of bed at 5 a.m. telling me "It's your shower day." You will get combativeness the likes the world has never seen.
2. Do not label the above as a "behavior" and try to have me put on a psychotropic. How would you like to be dragged out of bed against your will, stripped naked and hosed down that early in the morning by a total stranger?
3. Do not label me "a behavior problem" and again get me put on psychotropics/anxiolytics without 1st assessing me for pain. Have I had a BM lately? Maybe I'm hungry, thirsty, cold, uncomfortable, wet, etc...address those possibilities first, please.
4. If I'm yelling a lot, and often, refer to #3.
5. If you find me asleep in my w/c frequently, for Pete's sake put me to bed!
I'm not asking much. Just please take care of me. Thank you.
Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN
2,722 Posts
OK, so let's get the suggestions going for where.
How 'bout Hawaii?