[HospiceNurse]

Precautionary measures are considered abuse by whom?

Government

A nursing home resident with alzheimers regularly gets out of bed at night to go to the bathroom, but gets out of the wrong side of the bed, gets confused and falls. The nurse aide that spends 40 hours a week or more with this resident realizes that if she puts up the bottom bed rail on the wrong side of the bed and turns on the bathroom light the resident gets out of the right side of the bed and goes to the bathroom unharmed. The state comes in and finds out that there is no physician's order for the bed rail being up. They do not care why it is up. The aide is cited for abuse (illegal restraint) loses her registration and ability to make a living, the rail is lowered, the resident falls and breaks her hip, gets pneumonia and dies. Gubmint is happy.

[Freedom2specul8]

How often does the state visit, because in ALL the cases or facilities I’ve seen, I would have believed the state NEVER visited.

[trisham]

Thanks for the inside information regarding nursing homes. I've read some truly dreadful things about them, but I never had the sense of how bad it really is.

I appreciate knowing your first-hand experience.