What are my rights..

[beausud]

ok here's the situation: pt is obese, BLE flaccid, pt says "PT got me up to the side of bed yesterday... why can't you (me)?" so the nice person i am i go and help the pt out w/ assistance from another staff member. i realise half way through that this pt is a max assist-this is when i found out that the pt has poor upper body strength as well. anyhow, we got the pt up to the side of bed safely without incident.. but my back is sore .

so if this pt requests this of me again tonight... can i refuse? what are my rights?; i am a traveler by the way... not staff, so i might not have the same support system for this type of situation. thx for your time.

[huggietoes]

Had this woman insisted vehomently that her husband with hx of CVA that lives in nursing home, walk to BR. Can not even sit up in bed without assist, she tells me that she will speak to my manager because I was denying her husband his rights. So I say O.K. get help and try to perform a miracle, the guy gets just to the edge of the bed and his legs buckle like jello, me and the PCA end up having to do a total lift to stop him from falling. Wife is p&*sed and fuming as I am picking my uterus up off the floor. I ask her how they walk him at the nursing home and she says "they don't, they claim they have to use the hoyer, but I know they are lying that is why I wanted you to walk him so I could prove them wrong but you people can't do anything right either" so I gently reinforced he will be transferred by lift to chair and to bed no more walkies. What the???????????