The Sin Bin • Re: coronavirus and sport ?
Sal Paradise wrote:
How do they converse with the patients if they are in full gear - surely it must be near impossible to bath someone in full gear?
Would we not better moving these vulnerable people into a controlled environment where they can looked after more efficiently and the PPE can be used more efficiently i.e. one set last 12 hours not 12 minutes?
Under normal circumstances, full PPE would not be needed for most home care visits; just gloves and maybe an apron. Masks and other precautions are being used now, so that visiting carers don't pass on the virus to extremely vulnerable people. It is by the way, perfectly easy to converse with someone whilst wearing a mask - it's not a diving helmet - just a fabric mask with a non-permeable insert.
There is no 'controlled environment' in which to place people - and even if there were, you would be hard pressed from a legal perspective to force someone who had full capacity to move from their home into a more risky group setting. And even if you did force them, at great expense btw, it doesn't solve the PPE issue - contrary to the latest Govt advice, PPE should be changed after every interaction, so unless you had one carer supporting one person for the whole shift - which doesn't happen - they'd have to change their PPE as the worked between clients. And even then - in the 1 carer to 1 client situ - they would still need new PPE when they transitioned from say personal care, to preparing food.
I can see where you're coming from with this, but I can assure you that as private providers, we have a baked in motivation to ensure our staff don't over-use PPE; you will understand why. I can assure you that they don't - and they aren't now.
Statistics: Posted by bren2k — Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:10 pm