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Friday, October 29, 2010

How can something so perfect...

As I meet with Directors of Nursing, Wellness coordinators and lift specialists, it is easily apparent the SDS Transfer Vest is the best solution to the many problems of moving residents and patients. Then i run up against reluctance to change lifting protocol or to spend the necessary monies to attack a problem at the point of care. Turf wars break out over who is calling the shots in a facility. I find it unfathomable that a decision to do the good and right thing is so hard to come by in those places. Makes you wonder what else goes a missing!
TVR

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Can you afford to not have what you may need?

Because caregiving is not a guessing game, can you afford to not have all the tools you may need at the point of care? We are trying to change a culture of using the "tried and true" methods and tools. When there is a better way, use it! I had a director tell me that in trialing the vest, he could see it was easily the best thing he had seen, but...his group grabbed the gait belt because that is what they had always done. We are changing lifting protocol one care provider at a time....