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Probably a harness for patients who won't sit still for it!
Many clients, especially those with cerebral palsy or other motor impairments, enjoy the bathtub because the warm water helps loosen their overworked muscles and allows them some actual relaxation and a temporary release from the cruel hands of gravity. That's why hydrotherapy was used as much as possible with this particular group of folks. Not cold water, as someone suggested earlier, because that tends to make people less compliant and more irritable than soothing and relaxing warm water.
As an FYI, many places currently use a lot of upright portable privacy screens. I myself prefer curtains and always push for them, but there are ways of putting up privacy screens across the stalls as well. I know that at one point there were problems with clients locking themselves in the stalls if they had solid doors, and folks also sometimes had severe injuries if they lost their balance when getting up from the toilet and hit the door or if they had a seizure and hit the door. As well, if you have a client who engages in fecal smearing or ingestion you need to keep an eye on them - for obvious reasons. And that is just a part of your every day work - they don't pay you extra to clean people who are covered from head to toe with feces - and then brush their teeth as well.
Again, the initial reason for these practices wasn't to degrade and humiliate people, it was the result of minimal funding, overcrowding, and low staffing levels.
As a sidenote, ask your parents and grandparents if they always voted for social welfare spending or if they fought all tax increases. ;-)
i worked in a nursing home for about five years but have spent most of my time in hospital care. Ive never encountered straps for bathtubs though.
Anyway, hydrotherapy, like ECT, could be used therapeutically OR abusively, as it sometimes was.
http://wwww.shop.com/9403146.phtm
http://www.edmond-wheelchair.com/bath_tub_lifts.htm
Although it is entirely possible that what is pictured in this particular pic is duct tape, they actually use safety straps that look like strips of duct tape in some bathtubs that have lifts.
OOOOOOOO
Better?
A: keep opening the door to check on them every two minutes and disturb their bathing time, or
B: Stand fretting that they were drowning
Get a grip girl!
As for privacy, find a spot in any hospital that's truly private. Screens and such have uses and we do use them when possible. They can also be a hinderance in a setting that needs to be secure. If we miss a suicide. or an attempted suicide because of a privacy screen, there's a major problem there. Plus a wheeled privacy screen can be used as a weapon bits, and pieces of them can be swallowed.
Restraint is one of the tings we do when a situation or a person gets so far out of control they become a danger to themselves and others. These galleries depict technology from the past. The problem of seclusion and restraint is an ongoing problem in the 21st century. There is a nationwide initiative to reduce and eliminate retraints, and such where ever possible. Also to find ways to eliminate them where ever possible. It's a problem that's been there for a century or more.
At one place where I worked one of our fellows wandered off and fell asleep in an elevator and was missing for hours. Didn't know how to open the elevator door back up once he got inside and he was nonverbal, so he just took a nap. Luckily, no problems occurred, but it was a frantic 2 hour search and when we opened the elevator, we woke him from his nap and he glared at us for disturbing his peaceful slumber. :-)
When our folks get lost or hide, many of them are unwilling or unable to respond.
Another time, when I was a special ed teacher, a student in another class went on a short hiking trip with his class, wandered off, and was difficult to locate because he was echolalic (echolalia = repeating the words you hear others say, also called "parroting") so when they called his name he also called his name, and it just sounded like another searcher calling his name. The event ended without tragedy, but trying to locate an individual with a handicapping condition who has disappeared is a lot dicier than you might otherwise think (even if they WANT to be found).
We cannot assume that all human beings are inherently evil or harbor ill-intent by glancing at a photo. As for myself, I find it absurd that a window would be installed just for the sole purpose of voyeurism.
Lynne, I would consider it an honor to hear from you. (goldenj@bossiercity.org)
Echolalic? I've never heard of that before, how interesting. You should really write a book about your life, seriously! You care so much for these people and have had so many experiences. I think if you kind of "opened the door" and showed outsiders that most of these people are completely harmless many people would gain a better understanding. I've learned tons from reading your posts.
I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. :-)
Most likely though, it was used to analyze their behavior and actions, etc.