Keeping a patient from falling

[Alicia18]

Okay, I have a problem. Twice this weekend I had a 200 pound (at least) woman using a walker decided to sit down while I was leading her to her bed. This would have been all fine and well if she had waited until there was a chair or the bed underneath her. Instead she just sat with nothing but me behind her, and it was all I could do to lower her to the ground. The first time it happened, I called for my coworker to help me get her back in bed, but she left me feeling like there was more I could have done. I'm still fairly new to the medical profession (I just got my CNA a few months ago and have only been working that long), and think that I did all I could, but my coworker has years of experience, and made me feel stupid for not doing more. The second time (the next night I worked) the same resident decided to sit herself on the floor again, and did so before I could get a wheelchair fully underneath her. I think that the lady in question should be a two-person assist, but no one else has reported any trouble with her that I know of. Is it just my problem? Is there something else I could have done besides lowering her to the ground? :uhoh21:

[blondebritbrat]

I know if I fell I would not expect a person to be able to catch me and prevent me from falling because I would probably injure them due to my weight that I am at right now. I would however expect them to try to let me down gently using whatever technique is proper. I would feel so bad if I injured someone on the job when they were trying to keep me from being injured. This is a person that has caught their mom a lot and she is only 5'2 and at the time she weighed only like 110 pounds due to being so sick. So I know what you people are talking about since I am not even a nursing student yet. I had to have a nurse teach me the proper technique before they would even let my mom go home with me from the hospital. If only that was the proctol for all hospitals....