In this scenario, I'll be continuing my care of the patient.
I will be helping her from the bed into a commode chair, and assisting
her to have a shower.
Hello, Sue.
Hello.
How are you?
I'm good thank you.
How are you going?
Not too bad.
Gretel, isn't it?
Yes, that's right.
Yes, yes.
Now, I was just wondering --
do you feel up to having a shower?
Oh, that would be good, yes.
Oh fantastic!
Fine, no worries --
well, firstly, did you bring anything that you
want to change into, or any toiletries?
I've got pyjamas in the cupboard there, and there's a bag of toiletries too.
Fantastic.
I'll just get that ready there...
Now, Sue, I understand you've had some surgery on
your spine, so I can imagine you'd be quite anxious that you
don't experience any discomfort or do anything to
It's pretty painful --
it's quite hard to move.
Not a problem --
so what I'll --
I'll just explain to you what we'll be doing.
So I'll sit you up into the bed, and then I'll
lower the bed down so that you can get comfortably out of it, and if at any time
you experience any discomfort or pain, just stop and you can take a break,
or we can just take it from there.
Alright?
OK, yep.
Just winding you up a little bit...
there we go... now I'll just lower the bed down for you.
How are you going there?
Alright, it's OK.
Good, I'll just bring you down now.
Uh huh.
OK --
I'm just going to pull back the bed covers.
There we go...
OK I'm here for you if you need a bit of a hand.
That's good, that's good.
Alright...
OK OK, fantastic.
Pat: Right...
I'm just going to help you pop on some shoes, so that you don't accidentally
slip --
there we go...
These look really elegant, don't they!
Oh they're not too bad --
just wriggle your foot in there.
I should have brought some slippers.
I'll just do your laces up so you don't trip.
There we go...
Thank you.
You're so used to being able to reach down and do it, you know.
Thank you.
Alright, so what I'm going to do --
I'll just bring the commode chair over here and pop the brakes on
-- is that close enough for you to reach there?
Yes, that's good, yes.
Let me just put the brakes on.
There we go --
and if you just then want to slowly get up, and then you can just swivel around.
There you go, good.
Oh... and just reach behind you there
Yep.
Good on you.
OK.
You alright?
Yes, yes.
I'll just put the footrest down --
there you go.
Are you comfortable there, Sue?
It's OK.
Lovely, that's just your towels.
Alright, now I'll just take you with me to go
and have a shower.