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Clever idea!
I wouldn't chart it, especially in LTC since it probably would be considered a 'dignity issue' Seriously- I think if the pt were in their right mind they'd think their dignity would be less intact if they were indeed allowed to dig around in their pants, but that's just me.
I bet the State would even call it some sort of 'restraint'! "The patients have the right to fall and kill themselves..." :icon_roll
onthejourney
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Hi all. I'm a nursing student doing my final practicum on a medical floor. Today I was helping a nurse change a pt's brief and I saw a trick I'd never seen before. Not sure of the pt's dx, but he was not alert to person place or time and I knew that on a previous day I worked he had taken off his brief and soiled the bed. The nurse had put hospital pants on him backwards and tied the drawstrings on the pants to the drawstrings on the gown in order to keep him from stripping. So is this a tip you would use? Would you chart it? I can't see anything bad happening from it but yet again I am very green. What are your thoughts?
Thanks,
onthejourney