You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
Giving elderly hospital patients a tambourine as part of their health care plan.
Who sponsors this health care? The Osmonds?
Tamboourines?
What ever happened to the electronic call buttons they have on each hospital bed? Does that electric pulse really rack up so many health care dollars?
And Tambourines? What is this the Dave Clark 5?
What health care facility gives old people tambourines?
Why not give the old people shot guns so they can shoot the ceiling. That would get my attention.
How bout golf clubs they can bang on their metal beds.
Since we’re losing all dignity and sense of right and wrong, why not just hand Grandma a flame thrower and let her torch the curtains.
Nothing says I need to go pee pee like a fully involved fire.
DATELINE: Wales
According to published reports, a tambourine was the only emergency call system available to patients using a day room at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary’s West Wing.
The son of a 90-year-old patient photographed the tambourine and claimed that there was also a pair of maracas in the day room for the patients to use to call for help.
Hey kids let’s start a flamenco dancing band. We’ll call ourselves the sick and the elderly.
Maracas? We all know that nothing grabs attention like the tiny rattle of a maraca.
Maracas are often refered to as the tiny rattle snake of health care.
“My mother and other patients won’t go to the day room because of their fear of being left in a distressing situation, particularly toileting,” the relative said. “I gave the tambourine a good hard shaking — after 16 minutes I gave up as no one responded.”
Talk about your senior circuit cardio?
16 minutes of shaking and banging bed pans with a full, 90-year-old bladder is a work out that no senior should be forced to endure.
Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Community Health Council chief officer Steve Allen said, “This is totally inappropriate — patients shouldn’t have to resort to shaking a tambourine to get a nurse’s assistance.”
Nice public response Steve. If you had the stones, you should go in there and fire anyone who has ever handed a senior citizen so much as an egg beater.
Tambourines to get a nurse’s attention? How about electric guitars or rocks or two way radios.
And that is crazy™