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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]wait. bed rails aren't allowed? we have those for my parents. why are they bad? should we get rid of them??[/quote]

They lead to choking and death if the parent rolls into them.  They have not been used in Florida facilities for many, many years.[/quote]

The US Drug and Food Enforcement Agency has an article about this issue:

Bed Rail Entrapment Statistics

Today there are about 2.5 million hospital and nursing home beds in use in the United States. Between 1985 and January 1, 2009, 803 incidents of patients* caught, trapped, entangled, or strangled in beds with rails were reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Of these reports, 480 people died, 138 had a nonfatal injury, and 185 were not injured because staff intervened. Most patients were frail, elderly or confused."

So because 480 mainly frail, elderly, and confused people died out of 2.5 MILLION hospital/nursing beds in the US over the span of FOURTEEN YEARS. That is 34 deaths a year on average.

So now instead of 34 elderly and confused people who didn't have long to live anyways dying, you have thousands and thousands of nursing home employees working on their knees as they do duties such as:
administering medications,
turning and lifting residents,
changing linens and clothing, and
transferring residents to chairs and other devices.

Or loved one are told  (like the RN who posted) "Hire a 1:1"

Then when people can't afford the thousands of dollars for a 1:1 the nursing home figures out the only way they can deal with the situation is to drug patients but of course the nurse says don't let the nursing home do that either.

The whole thing is so ridiculous. More people died each year from dog attacks than bedrails but we don't ban dogs. [/quote]

Exactly this!!!![/quote]

This is such a problem. Some advocacy groups thinks they are being helpful advocating for elderly rights, when in actually they just screwed hundreds of thousands of elderly people and their families who are far WORSE off. Additionally, they made the working conditions for tens of thousands of nursing and rehab workers brutal. Lowering beds because there can't be bed rails so that minimum wage workers who are administering medications, changing patients, moving patients are working on their knees and/or bent over is absolutely cruel.  [/quote]

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