Re: sitting question to group thank you

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In a message dated 3/2/04 1:16:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A friend who is a Risk manager at a large nursing home recently attended a seminar in which the State regulatory agency made a presentation.  In the presentation, the surveyor said that it was a "standard of care....to change the position of a sitting patient/resident every 30 minutes".  You read it right.  Sounds like a wonderful idea but I have got to say, it is a new one to me.  I have heard this same statement.  When I heard it, it was made at a seminar for Legal Nurse Consultants and involved a case where the resident had a stage 4 decube on the sacrum and wanted to be up in a chair all the time.  I don't recall the state, but it was out west somewhere.  And q30 min was the SOC noted for that facility/state (not sure).  The facility lost the case, btw.  Whether this is actually a SOC or not, I don't know.  It may be a policy of a facility.  SOC's are usually written by Associations and ANA, ect., if used nationally.  Would be interesting to know if it was just specific to a certain facility rule or actual SOC.  Sorry I'm not more help.   Sherri