Did TTSH stint on staff deployment?

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Originally Posted by nobodywantstolisten (10Feb2012) Topic: TTSH: Patient fell off the bed for his own good. Morals of the reply: 1. In any hospital here, complaints are always refuted. They are always right. You have signed the indemnity form before admission. You life in our hands. Patients not like customers. You pay and we lord over you.  Take it or ship out! 2. Call bells - why don't we get some unbiased, freelance "mystery hospital visitors" to survey the frequency of call bells used, attended with what time frame, against the nursing manpower, over varied wards, at different times? My question is why did the patient try to get up on his own? His illness affected him? He didnt want to be embarassed or be a burden to the nurse to bed wet. Etc. It sounds rather silly that a well-represented management staff of this hospital simply generalised that the patient had all along been utilising the call bell without any problem. Thus it is his fault for not call-belling! May I know when were you at the ward to witness him call-belling? From your nursing station? Or your medical ingenuity? [emphasis added]

"My question is why did the patient try to get up on his own?":
according to the TTSH Professor himself: "Her father has a history of multiple strokes. He was admitted to a ward with a designated 'high fall-risk' cubicle following an acute stroke." and due to his frail and confused nature: "raising only three of the four cot sides of the bed as this has been shown to help them feel less anxious or 'trapped'"

Obviously the patient isn't one of a sound mind for the fact that he had just suffered a stroke on top of "a history of multiple strokes" to the extent that he might feel "anxious or 'trapped'".

These statements suggest that there are just inadequate staff on TTSH night duty resulting in the fall occurring.

One does not need to be at the "nursing station".. "Or .. medical ingenuity" to piece 2 and 2 together to conclude that TTSH was indeed insufficiently staffed resulting in a lapse in the quality of medical care provided to the patient, his inadvertent fall despite being in a in a high fall risk cubicle notwithstanding.

"Medical care" means taking care of the patient's well being, and ignoring family members pleas and neglecting the welfare of at risk patients is a lapse in medical care provision period.

Otherwise, what is the point of putting patients in a "'high fall-risk' cubicle" if U stint on funding for nurses because all the nurses have to do then is to wait for 'high fall-risk' patients to call the call bell at night whilst keeping their eyes half shut most of the time?

Whatever the class of the patient, TTSH stinted on staff deployment, and for this, TTSH must pay.

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10Feb2012: TTSH: Patient fell off the bed for his own good.