I was told "If they won't get out of bed don't hesitate to call rescue."

[Alnitak7]

Does anyone here have any feedback for this situation?

I worked in a boarding house where I always had at least three, four, or five residents that I was responsible for.

One morning I cooked breakfast and alerted them all that it was time to get up.

One lady who had been there for only a day or two stayed in bed. She said she did not feel like getting up right away. She did not appear to be ill. She missed breakfast.

I called my supervisor who told me to call rescue for her.

When she came over to the house to offer guidance she told me, "Don't hesitate to call rescue when this happens."

This new lady was brought back a day or two later on antidepressants.

I have doubted that every single patient who won't get up in the morning needs to go to the hospital but I would hate to feel like I was negligent.

Let's suppose their vitals are fine and they're talking to you but they won't get up. Do you really need to send them to the hospital?

[Rhi007]

Well in that case I would have been choofed off everyday for the past 5 days... It's abusing the system that is already crumbling.

[floridanurse1983]

If 911 was called everyday I didn't feel like getting out of bed, there would be an ambulance at my door every freakin day! How idiotic.

[RetRN77]

Really stupid. My mom was in assisted living and often did not feel up to getting up for breakfast. In fact, one of the reasons we decided on assisted living instead of the senior apartments where she had a few, but not all, the types of service in assisted living was because she so often didn't feel like getting up for breakfast. The senior apartments would bring them meals, but charge extra for doing it. In the assisted living, it wasn't an extra charge.

She would probably have been throwing everything in sight if they'd called 911 because she didn't feel up to getting up. If she didn't, I would have.

However, an evaluation for depression or physical illness might not be out of line, either. In the beginning, the reason my mom wasn't feeling well enough to get out of bed at all was because they kept cutting off the prednisone she was dependent upon, and she was too confused to realize it. It took a while to figure out what they were doing, and they nearly killed her twice.