ltaluv
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I was just in the hospital overnight with a bout of pancreatitis. When I was admitted, I told them that I self cath but that I still normally use diapers, expecting that I'd end up either with a Foley or a diaper. They told me that the medical floor I was on was "diaper free," and that if I can self cath I didn't need a Foley. They brought me an underpad and told me that if I had an accident they'd come change the sheets. And when I had an accident, that's what they did.
I get that diapers can be overused in hospitals so that nursing assistants don't have to help patients to the bathroom, but refusing to even let me wear the diapers I'd brought with me seemed a little too much. I don't have any sort of rash or skin breakdown, so I didn't understand the rationale.
I dislike that sort of one-size-fits-all policy. A policy requiring every patient to wear diapers, whether incontinent or not, would be absurd. How is this policy any less absurd?
I get that diapers can be overused in hospitals so that nursing assistants don't have to help patients to the bathroom, but refusing to even let me wear the diapers I'd brought with me seemed a little too much. I don't have any sort of rash or skin breakdown, so I didn't understand the rationale.
I dislike that sort of one-size-fits-all policy. A policy requiring every patient to wear diapers, whether incontinent or not, would be absurd. How is this policy any less absurd?