tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30710387.post3744944639694385034..comments2024-03-17T19:10:13.841-07:00Comments on A Closer Look: Jody Paterson: New hospital policy not much of a fixJody Patersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18038299584414910712noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30710387.post-31751171853979045232012-01-06T21:13:12.715-08:002012-01-06T21:13:12.715-08:00April 2010:
I was put in with 5 other patients at ...April 2010:<br />I was put in with 5 other patients at Jubilee last year, 2 were men, of which one definitely had dementia & so did two of the women.<br />I stopped one woman from accidently eating before her surgery, orderlies had screwed up on her nothing by mouth order. She had been telling me her medical details & hey, I was a captive audience. <br />Took the senile woman to the bathroom & back-she had tried to get out of bed by herself-she commented on my unique nurse's uniform-I was wearing a silk Kimono!!<br />Helped the senile man back into bed when I found him wandering around the room at 2:30 am- I didn't know until the morning shift started that he had wet himself (he was probably looking for the bathroom.) <br />The diabetic man next to me acted very strange & cursed in an ongoing stream to no one in particular (in my case I found it oddly familiar having listened to construction workers at my Dad's company all my life.lol)<br />Good thing I had spent previous 19 hours re-cooperating in the emergency hallway, waiting on a bed (Wait- did I just say that??) & was mostly all better (for the moment, but I did have a partial bowel obstruction) & was waiting for 2 consults. I didn't know that the hallway, which had a semi-public bathroom, would afford me more privacy & rest than the hospital room!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30710387.post-50631386042074885432012-01-04T05:35:30.150-08:002012-01-04T05:35:30.150-08:00Good catch Jody.
Also, exactly how would a "...Good catch Jody. <br /><br />Also, exactly how would a "pain monitor" alert staff to a sexual assault? <br /><br />It's unlikely this woman would have had a pain monitor. It's usually only terminally ill people in excruciating pain during their final days who are given pain monitors (if, by that term, the reporter means self-administered pain pump). <br /><br />If the reporter meant "call bell" why didn't she say so? And, would a patient with dementia know to ring a call bell especially during an assault by a 45 year old man? Something smells a tad fishy here.<br /><br />Much more is being hidden than revealed by the Times-Colonist story, and by VIHA.<br /><br />There are other such serious crimes against patients, especially in nursing homes, that are never reported, and are "investigated" only by the facility themselves, even when their own staff are identified as the ones who committed the act. I am personally aware of several, not just in VIHA but in other regions. Such is the power of health care facilities and staff these days in BC.<br /><br />Who is to know, after hours when no one other than staff is present to witness what goes on?<br /><br />Of course VIHA expects the public to believe all will now be well because they have a "policy". <br /><br />Just like the Ombudsperson Kim Carter expects that no elderly person in BC's residential care system will be disrespected or harmed in any way just because she mandated that a toothless "Residents Bill of Rights" poster be pasted in the hallways of nursing homes. <br /><br />What a joke. That Residents Bill of Rights is worse than useless. It misleads the public into believing protections are in place, but really "solutions" like this poster (and the declaration that policies are/are being put in place) are in fact smokescreens used to help hide a multitude of crimes against elderly residents.<br /><br />But the public buys this nonsense, as does most of the media.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com