Wednesday, October 22, 2008

wk 2 post 1

Today we had a new #NOF pt transferred from RPH. We went to see her to do initial subjective and mobility assessment. The pt 'Jan' was very agitated and verbally agressive and I suspect confused. She was very non-compliant refusing anything we asked her to do. She stated she had previously had bad experiences with the nurses etc as they put her in pain and rushed her. We then proceeded to get her out of bed the whole while she was throwing abuse from all directions and had a very negative attitude, we remained calmed and did everything slowly and carefully. I think it was partly because it was the end of the day but I was about to blow my top at her and mouth back at her but I managed to swallow it which I thought I did well. In the end I noticed that Jan began struggling to find things to pin us with because we carried it out smoothly and didn't cause her any further pain. We managed to get her SOEOB and then standing up with PF.

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