There is actually a lot to be said for the fledgling concept of “ground floor care” in hospitals. But patients do not have to lie on the floor in hospital corridors for this, on the contrary.
Images of patients on the floors of hospital corridors in Vienna have set off a shock wave. That the city justifies the images with the concept of ‘care on the ground floor’ is half the truth at best. In fact, the idea of care on the ground floor in hospitals is gaining more and more supporters. For example, patients who could endanger themselves or injure themselves can be protected from being trapped in conventional hospital beds. However, where the idea of “care close to the ground” was developed, people search in vain for patients on the floor of hospital corridors.
“Close to the ground doesn’t mean aisle and noise”
Switzerland pioneered the development of the concept. In the network of Valens clinics, for example, people shake their heads even more at the photos from Vienna: “Close to the ground does not mean aisle and noise,” says spokeswoman Silvia Pederiva. The care on the ground floor takes place in the Swiss clinics “of course in patient rooms”. Also in the Vienna hospital of the Brothers of Mercy, positioning patients on corridor floors is ‘absolutely not’ seen as the standard when it comes to care on the ground floor.
Prototype in Austria received little response
In Austria, too, there were pioneers of the new nursing practice looking across the border to Switzerland: the Vorarlberg manufacturer Feuerstein und Klocker – specializing in the production of tailor-made aids for nursing – already developed a “nursing nest” in 2012, essentially a mattress with light foam – Obstacles all around. However, the prototype received little response. “Maybe I was too ahead of my time,” says company founder Anton Feuerstein to “Krone”.
Articles are safer than patients
Even the fire brigade offers no redress against the practice of putting patients on the floor in hospital corridors, which also blocks escape routes: The “temporary parking of beds” in corridors does not fall under the Fire Brigade Act, according to the fire brigade. “Cron”. Only “flammable substances” should not be stored there. Sounds dangerous for patients.
Source: Krone
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