06/12/2024
Are you aware of how Petal Back Clothing protects your staff as well as your residents?
It is largely confirmed that adaptive clothing gives dignity and greatly reduces any possible pain in the dressing process, but little is said about how it can positively affect your staff as well.
Having adaptive clothing available to the wearer, the dressing process is quicker and easier thus saving nursing time and reducing distress to the wearer and the carer. As there is No need to lift or to roll the wearer, the carer will be protected from injury too. With our unique design, Petal Back clothing slides gently up the arms and then slips easily over the head of the wearer, it complies perfectly with the easy management of continence aids. No Velcro and No Studs that may scratch or damage delicate skin
The carer does not have to use any physical force in the dressing process. This greatly reduces the risk of any unintended injury to shoulders, knees, hips or the neck of your staff.
No rolling or lifting is required and allows just one carer to manage the task of dressing/un******ng.
In addition, the carer is standing in front of the person being dressed which lessens any anxiety which often happens when the wearer cannot see what is happening and this then makes him/her unsettled.
A specialist nurse once said to me: “All the very best equipment will not make a true difference unless the appropriate (adaptive) clothing is used in conjunction.” Many nurses around Australia have since confirmed to me that this is particularly true in High Care, Palliative Care and Rehab Care.
Linda – Petal Back Clothing
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