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I had a res. who removed her code
alert all the time. What we did was get a fine link chain, it was kind of
like what is on a screen door. We put it on her ankle with that, and to
just cover ourselves, and to preoccupied her we put a code alert on her
wrist. She was always busy with the one on her wrist that she finally
forgot about the one on her ankle that she could not get off, cut off, or
break. Also if this is a new behavior for her, I would check her for a
UTI.
Hope this helps.
Shellie
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 5:12
AM
Subject: RE: 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
Has she tried it again? If she
hasn't I would probably just observe & not try to put the wanderguard on
unless she does. Otherwise we had a couple residents we needed to put
the wanderguard on their ankle for the very same reason. Hope this
helps.
Pat Whitcomb,
RN
MDS
Coordinator
Madonna
Towers
507-288-3911,
Ext. 3050
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