In a message dated 4/27/2004 11:22:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A solution that we came up with was to remove the "body" of the device from the bracelet and lace it through the very bottom lace of their shoes. Found that it will also go through the velcro strap shoes with a little muscle. Most don't seem to notice it there. Hope this might help..
Carrie
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Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:12 PM
Subject: wanderguards
I need some advice. We have a resident that has never been an elopement risk until last Friday....and our social worker told her that she should get some fresh air so what does she do.....yep you guessed it....walked out the front door and got about 20 feet into the parking lot before a staff member could catch up with her. She tried to go out the front door one more time that afternoon but was redirected. we placed a wanderguard on here and she removed it....was able actually break the plastic strap that holds the wanderguard on.. This was found when we were doing our q shift wanderguard placement checks...so replaced that....she removed it again. This has gone on now for 3 days where we replace the bracelet and she is able to get it off no matter where we put it. We are at our wits end ...Have thought of trying to use dental floss as that is not able to be stretched or broken...have thought about safety pinning it to here but she would be able to remove that as she is independ. with adls. She has short term memory loss, expressive aphasia, UAL independently without assistive devices. Any suggestions would be appreciate and thanks in advance
This doesn't help probably but is she incompetent to make decisions? If not, and she is attempting to leave but is aphasic maybe there could be a problem with holding her there. Just a thought.
J. Martin, RN
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