I am currently at a LTC facility, where several of our patients go out 3 times a week for outpatient dialysis.
Currently, the facilty we send them to does NOT toilet our patients while they are there. They refuse to assist someone from wheelchair to toilet, and incontient patients get their treatment cut off EARLY, and the transport company is called to take them back to us.
Is that typical?
Is that reasonable?
It's a four hour treatment, is it unreasonable that someone would have to pee?
There were also occasions where I was alone on the floor watching all the patients. Techs call out, water room needs tending to, lack of available staff, And guess how fun it is to code someone alone....... Not that fun. Luckily the emts and transportation people that brought the patients to and from dialysis were awesome. If they weren't so helpful. We never would have got by.
Um yea...that's not legal at all lol.
And you have the right to hold a tech from break to legally avoid being by yourself if a code happens. Too dangerous!
PrettyLady87
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Um yea...that's not legal at all lol.
And you have the right to hold a tech from break to legally avoid being by yourself if a code happens. Too dangerous!