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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 253058" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>ok I worked in NHs 1991 to approx 2003. I worked in a private one & the county run one. neither supplied phones in rooms. neither had cells but cells were rare then. when I inquired I was given many excuses why no phones. one 'reason' was safety. an unsteady pt might stumble trying to answer. another was that it might become problematic to have someone confused or hard of hearing & could be a problem for a roomate? sadly yes tvs also were not supplied in pt rooms but I usually worked alzheimers dementia & hospice & my pts usually didn't care about a tv. in 2005 my mom spent a lil time in one & she did have a phone in her room but her confused roomate & roomates visitors very often answered it before my mom could & hung up on my moms calls & the staff often set my moms phone in places she couldn't reach. when my aunt was in NH in 2004 the facility did have cell phones that staff kept for pts to use.....but I remember my aunt had no clue how to use it & I would call long distance to listen to my aunt cuss & struggle unsucessfully with that phone. just before I 'retired' pts began to get family supplied cellls & plugging it in to charge overnite became another of our duties similar to eyeglass or denture care. fwiw easy child didn't have a phone in hospital stay recently when she had baby either. & last hotel stay the room had no phone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 253058, member: 1697"] ok I worked in NHs 1991 to approx 2003. I worked in a private one & the county run one. neither supplied phones in rooms. neither had cells but cells were rare then. when I inquired I was given many excuses why no phones. one 'reason' was safety. an unsteady pt might stumble trying to answer. another was that it might become problematic to have someone confused or hard of hearing & could be a problem for a roomate? sadly yes tvs also were not supplied in pt rooms but I usually worked alzheimers dementia & hospice & my pts usually didn't care about a tv. in 2005 my mom spent a lil time in one & she did have a phone in her room but her confused roomate & roomates visitors very often answered it before my mom could & hung up on my moms calls & the staff often set my moms phone in places she couldn't reach. when my aunt was in NH in 2004 the facility did have cell phones that staff kept for pts to use.....but I remember my aunt had no clue how to use it & I would call long distance to listen to my aunt cuss & struggle unsucessfully with that phone. just before I 'retired' pts began to get family supplied cellls & plugging it in to charge overnite became another of our duties similar to eyeglass or denture care. fwiw easy child didn't have a phone in hospital stay recently when she had baby either. & last hotel stay the room had no phone. [/QUOTE]
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