cindytexan 1 Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 We are carring a heavy load of medi-care Residents. Our therapy dept. are walking all over Resident Rights. They take them out of Activities that they are enjoying to take them to therapy, and do not care if they say they want to stay. I have a short time resident that was told that if they had to look for her she would not have therapy. She started refusing to leave her room so she would not miss therapy. I have always been told that therapist are supposed to work around the residents schedule. I have been to my administrator, and he has spoken to the head of therapy several times. It hasn't helped. I've been here for 8 years and haven't had this problem. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRBeRec 0 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 We are carring a heavy load of medi-care Residents. Our therapy dept. are walking all over Resident Rights. They take them out of Activities that they are enjoying to take them to therapy, and do not care if they say they want to stay. I have a short time resident that was told that if they had to look for her she would not have therapy. She started refusing to leave her room so she would not miss therapy. I have always been told that therapist are supposed to work around the residents schedule. I have been to my administrator, and he has spoken to the head of therapy several times. It hasn't helped. I've been here for 8 years and haven't had this problem. Any suggestions? Well when I worked in a 100% sub-acute facility, we designed our calendar to be open ended and held organized groups at 3pm & after dinner when most therapies where over. Since our patients were short term & focused on returning home, missing therapy for an activity was not an option. We basically had open hours where we would be available to place games, have coffee, discussions, trivia as residents became available. Hope that helps. Yes we are supposed to work around the residents schedule, but since the reason they are there is to receive PT/OT/ST we should work with them and not conflict with those prime therapy times. Not sure how your staffing is not but is it possible to have staff come in later? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cindytexan 1 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 I disagree only because there is 1 of me and maybe 10 therapist in the building. When a resident is released they are sent a scorecard to fill out, asking about the stay in the facility. One of the questions is how enjoyable was the leisure time while they were here. If they are not included in parties, bingo,entertainment etc., and they would like to attend my scores go down. Just because they are here for a short term stay doesn't mean they don't have rights. . we are you are right, I agree with you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRBeRec 0 Report Share Posted July 1, 2011 I disagree only because there is 1 of me and maybe 10 therapist in the building. When a resident is released they are sent a scorecard to fill out, asking about the stay in the facility. One of the questions is how enjoyable was the leisure time while they were here. If they are not included in parties, bingo,entertainment etc., and they would like to attend my scores go down. Just because they are here for a short term stay doesn't mean they don't have rights. . we are I think you're misunderstanding, yes the residents do have rights and that is why we need to work around the residents schedule, regardless of staff members involved. What are times that most residents are available for activities? That's when you need to schedule your group programs, unfortunately that may mean adjusting your hours. If you wont change your activity schedule you can try to give notice to the therapists of who will be in what activity when but in my experience, a lot of sub-acute patients need to be seen by multiple therapies and most of the time they cannot co-treat. So if a patient only gets two hour a day then you can ask for them to be seen in the morning or in the afternoon so they can attend your activities, but in most cases where residents are working hard to return home, therapy is both morning and afternoon sessions. have you discussed this with the therapy director or admin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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