Inside one nursing home I have been adamently told, "You should not force her to do anything..." about an ill patient who said she wanted to stand up but was too weak.
In the same facility on other patients and other shifts, I have heard the phrase, "You have to....."and I have heard a charge nurse say, "Nope, nope nope, she HAS to come downstairs," in response to me saying, "She needs to finsish her breathing treatment."
In school, I was taught, "You can use powers of persuasion but you can't force them," ie, "They are all afrain you might fall out of bed..."
Some nurses still insist, "She has a right to refuse," and end off the conversation. They won't lilsten to any discussion about this.
