Pop Quiz
You’re running a care center. The bed alarm for one of your residents is too sensitive and goes off when she rolls over in bed at night. This has caused the resident across the hallway to complain. What do you do?
A) Tell the complaining resident to suck it up and deal.
B) Look for other alarm options that will not go off unnecessarily while not compromising patient safety.
C) Remove the alarm altogether as a stop-gap measure while waiting on permission to move said resident to another hall, under the guise of “she might like it better there.”
If you answered C, come forward so I can punch you.
If you answered B, nicely done. Feel free to slap anyone you know that would answer C.
If you answered A - well, it’s understandable, but doesn’t really address the underlying problem.
Yes, that’s why the care center wanted to move my grandmother. The bed alarm has now been replaced with a clip-on alarm so she can move about in bed and not set it off. This had to be suggested by someone WHO DOESN’T EVEN WORK THERE. No, I have no idea where their problem solving skills are. (I will be combing through her charts to see if I can find out whose brilliant idea it was to remove the alarm altogether.)
These folks really don’t seem to understand that I AM checking up on them, and I am not going to be pushed around just to make their life easier. I’ve not had the easy end of the grandma stick for 38 years, they can certainly learn how to deal with it for a little while.
Originally posted at CafeChatNoir.net.
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