Blankets can bring warmth and comfort to immobile patients
Janet Cross from Bath sent us this idea.Patients Sitting Out Often Get Cold Legs.
When I was Sister on a geriatric ward I insisted a blanket was draped on the seat of the chair and then wrapped round their legs. If necessary an incontinence sheet could be placed on the blanketed seat before the patient was seated.
- A room with a view - Surroundings
- Are you sitting comfortably - Physical comfort
- Cleanliness is next to godliness - hygeine
- Food glorious food - Appetising food
- Getting to know you - Communication
- It's childsplay - All about children
- Let me entertain you - Coping with boredom
- Pleased to meet you - The welcome
- Relatively speaking - Relatives and carers
- The waiting game - Waiting rooms
- There's no place like home - Going home
- Trumpet voluntary - All about volunteers
- A death in the family - Empathy and compassion
- Long Term Care - The long and winding road
- Mobility - Getting there
