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Originally Posted by jaysay
The thing that annoyed me more than anything Margaret, was the fact that the Ward Sister had to send her valuable time asking me questions such as "are you able to make yourself a cup of tea when your at home" what the hell as that got to do with hospital treatment, surely those are the things that should be down to Social Workers not Ward Sisters  |
These questions that the Sister asked you were important, in that they allow for discharge planning. The staff need to identify possible social/problems in the home early, in order to alert social/homecare services, so that your dischrage home is not delayed by the late identification of situations that would make it unsafe to send you home.
This is done on admission because patients are having much shorter stays in hospital.