The day’s second patient, who was almost 90 and lived at a nursing home in Kidlington, had fallen that morning and cut his eyebrow very badly.<\/p>\n
An ambulance crew had attended earlier and concluded the situation was not life-threatening and a specialist paramedic could deal with the injury.<\/p>\n
But Chrissy was faced with an additional challenge – the man had severe dementia, was quickly confused, and could not tolerate someone touching him for more than a few seconds. <\/p>\n
He was never violent, but would verbally make his displeasure known and try to push her away.<\/p>\n
The patient ideally needed stitches, but Chrissy concluded that wielding a needle near his eye was a bad idea for both of them. <\/p>\n
But she was able to patiently clean the wound and pin the skin back into place using stickers and glue.<\/p>\n
“It’s really disorientating for dementia patients to take them out of their home environment,” Chrissy said.<\/p>\n
“So if we can help them in their own home, they’ve got a better chance of healing and not having any additional issues.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The day’s second patient, who was almost 90 and lived at a nursing home in Kidlington, had fallen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-383942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}