Caring for plus size patients requires more staff and puts them at risk of injury. These challenges can be overcome by providing caregivers with the correct bariatric equipment. INTERVIEW WITH TRACEY: Tips for nurses caring for plus size patients
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Sufficient space and adequate weight capacity is always in the mind of a larger patient, which can lead to unnecessary stress and anxiety in any situation1. INTERVIEW WITH TRACEY: Finding flexible options in the healthcare facility for plus size patients
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Plus size patients prefer healthcare workers to address, rather than ignore, their weight. INTERVIEW WITH TRACEY: One patient's interactions at the hospital
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Plus size patients can delay seeking healthcare due to embarrassment and uncertainty over whether the equipment will be available to handle their weight1. INTERVIEW WITH TRACEY: Using the words bariatric, obese and plus size
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A well planned patient toilet room/area with the correct equipment can lead to dignity and independence for patients, and save time for caregivers.
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Standing aids can be used to transfer patients throughout a wide range of healthcare environments. This helps to minimize manual handling by caregivers. Residents/patients in care environments gain important physical and psychological benefits when their mobility is maintained.
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Each patient is different, and their care environment and treatment must reflect their needs and level of mobility. Although the ’typical’ patient does not exist, in order to provide optimised care there needs to be some level of standardisation and classification.
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Increasing mobility in patients has significant long and short term benefits including greater well-being for patients and staff as well as reduced cost of treatment.
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Thousands of nurses would be deported from the UK under new migrant salary rules, which the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warns would add to the shortage of nurses and cost the NHS millions on recruitment.
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