Nurse stuffs tape roll in dementia patient's mouth

there will be a great THELOCAL readers who will now start writing about the Nurse identity and will start mentioning that the nurse would be an immigrant.so carry on great leaders without evidence and without knowledge.

"An assistant nurse has been reported after forcing a roll of tape into the mouth of a patient with dementia"

If true, I consider that to be punitive and unresponsive to the needs of the patient.

No excuses regarding the accusations stipulated.

Those of us who have experience in the care of stroke, dementia or mentally unstable individuals know full well that it is very easy to be brought to tears in frustration. Employees with no family attachment to the inflicted patient have my sympathy as long as they perform their duties in a fiduciary manner. How do you provide resources and training? I do not know. -Paul

#2 if you can't do the job properly then get another job. The fact that dementia patients may be difficult to deal with does not mean one can abuse them. An assistant nurse who forces a roll of tape into a patient's mouth should be subject to punitive measures. It is responsive to the needs of the patient in that perhaps it will prevent another such incident. Carema fails again. One needs more than simply a low bid for services. Until there are specific requirements for staffing and training such things will continue to happen.

Privatized health care requires legal consequences whcih will will make a difference to the bottom line in order to be truly accountable.

A cheap..."unfortunately" will never encourage a for-profit enterprise to implement practices to protect their weak, vulnerable (and in the case of most older swedes) naive patients. To a for-profit enterprise patients are profit not people.

It is the job of the government, who privatized this health care service, to enact enforceable rules to protect paitents, and when that fails, the consequence should hurt the profit of the business.

Welcome to private health care.

@qamar

Ethnicity of assitant and the old person is not yet known. But it is probable statistically since most assistants in geriatrics are colonists and most old people are swedes.

It is also probable from a human perspective since us humans have a tendency to dehumanize people of a different ethnic group than our own. And working as an assistant in geriatrics is no picknic.

Then again, that some msm outlets brought this up and new media did not is an indication that no colonist was involved.

Kommune´s like Carema as they are the cheapest and what could be more important ? There are 92 old age pensioners residing at the Tallbohov nursing home, run by care company Carema, in the Stockholm suburb of Järfälla.

Staff and ex-employees have told DN that there often wasn't enough toilet paper, paper towlesl, alco gel, or soap to keep the place or the patients clean.

Sometimes, staff told the paper, the toilets would be so filthy that staff wouldn't sit down on them.

According to the staff, the management want them to do all cleaning, as well as repairing medical equipment, by themselves.

"But we haven't the time nor the expertise to do that," an ex-employee said to the paper.

The day before health inspectors were due this year, an army of cleaners arrived at the home. All areas were thoroughly vacuumed and scoured, and all dispensers of soap, alco gel, toilet paper and rubber gloves in the pensioners' rooms were filled up.

"Carema ought to be ashamed of themselves. They should keep the place clean both for the elderly and for the staff. Not to scam the inspectors," said one of the nurses to DN.

The cleaning used to be done by two cleaners but in a bid to save money, the company chose to add it to the staff responsibilities.

The need to make economies have also had another, more dire, consequence according to the staff who claim that the management question every prescription that would cost them money.

Another area where savings have been made are the residents' beds.

Earlier this spring one resident's bed broke, which was solved by requisitioning that of another patient, making him sleep on the floor for several months.

A third patient was too tall for his bed, but it took six months before he was given a new one, despite pleas from staff who were forced to tie his bed together, according tot he DN report.

"And when something ran out, it was out. Whether it was a question of diapers, food or toilet paper."

According to the employees, management solved staff shortages by making personnel from other departments fill in 20 minutes here and there over the course of the day.

When staff tried to complain they were met with understanding. Eventually they went straight to the municipality's medical officer.

This was not appreciated by Carema's management, which told them that anything that happened at the home should stay within the walls of the facility.