{"id":749,"date":"2015-09-14T23:59:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T23:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/?p=749"},"modified":"2015-09-14T23:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T23:59:39","slug":"the-shocking-sound-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/749\/the-shocking-sound-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The shocking sound of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;your patient crashing to the ground in the shower cubicle&#8230;and the bloodcurdling screams!<\/p>\n<p>You took your patient to the shower, made sure she had everything, shampoo, soap, towels&#8230; &#8216;Just wait for me &#8211; I&#8217;ll come and take you back to your bed,&#8217; you call as you hurry off to answer the buzzer of another patient. What just happened? She said she felt dizzy and slipped on the wet shower floor.<\/p>\n<p>It could be the dementia, the diabetic peripheral neuropathy (numb feet) or the pain-killing medication she had this morning, or a combination of everything.<\/p>\n<p>Can Slips, Trips and Falls be avoided?<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link to &#8216;Slips, Trips and Falls: The &#8216;Nurse you&#8217;re killing me&#8217; series&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Slips-Trips-Falls-Nurse-killing-ebook\/dp\/B00HJAAHLQ\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Slips-Trips-Falls-Nurse-killing-ebook\/dp\/B00HJAAHLQ<\/a> 2013 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (# 1 best seller in personal injury law) and<\/p>\n<p>Sharp Clinical Solutions for the Prevention of Falls 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00P8F83HO\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00P8F83HO<\/a> or copy and paste in your browser. Could this have been avoided? In all probability it could have been&#8230; We just have to get rid of silly nursing rituals that put patients at risk of falling&#8230; Read about the alternatives in my books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;your patient crashing to the ground in the shower cubicle&#8230;and the bloodcurdling screams! You took your patient to the shower, made sure she had everything, shampoo, soap, towels&#8230; &#8216;Just wait for me &#8211; I&#8217;ll come and take you back to your bed,&#8217; you call as you hurry off to answer the buzzer of another patient. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wound-management-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}