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From: Susie.Lee@f222.n271.z1.fidonet.org (Susie Lee)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: patient care during your strike
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Date: 19 Jun 91 01:56:19 GMT
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FW> As far as the resident getting a small scrape during a
FW> transfer, I can
FW> see why you would get upset.  Whenever I have to go into
FW> the hospital
FW> I'm always terrified that poor care is going to cause some
FW> sort of
FW> problem.  I agree with you that the important thing is to
FW> get the
FW> proper care.  I would rather have baby me and give me the
FW> proper care
FW> then to just ignore me and my needs.

And so you understand perfectly just what I'd been trying to get at
! Yes, absolutely, the important thing from the resident (or
sometimes victim's) point of view is the quality of care they're
under and that comes in DIRECT line from the *degree* of careing by
those doing the performing! (or supposed to be doing so) And one of
the biggest and most insidious points of neglect that shows are
what's known as bedsores or pressure ulcers. These happen when
someone cannot move about and requires someone else to reposition
them regularly when either in bed or in their chairs and have
painful pressure ulcers develope at areas where the bone presses
against skin. A true carer will see to it that these never get
started beyond the red-skin stage at most. Someone who doesn't care
as much will be content to leave their charges untended, say for
instance on night shift from maybe 12 am until anhour before
leaveing at 6am, by which time a pressure sore is well on it's way
and Then requires many *more intensive* shift work-hours to attempt
to get these healed. In this way a single lazy person being present
just once a week can Make more work for all the others who may be
on in the interim and care more truly. It's better and actually
easier to prevent such things than to try to help get them healed
once begun into tissue breakdown.Just another point of deep anger
that we who Do care hold against those who show they don't by their
inaction. And don't worry, those of us that do vent PLENTY of steam
at those who don't, especially when we catch 'em at it!

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