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Press Release – Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a retirement village in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of a man with a broken leg. The man was …
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a retirement village in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of a man with a broken leg.
The man was agitated and complained of pain in his upper thigh while at the Rowena Jackson Retirement Village. While a caregiver reported the man’s pain to the registered nurse, the nurse failed to commence a pain assessment tool or pain observation chart.
Rowena Jackson Retirement Village in Invercargill failed patient with broken leg
12 Apr, 2021 07:10 PM
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An Invercargill man spent some of his final days in significant pain with an undiagnosed broken leg because of the failings of his rest-home. Photo / 123RF
An Invercargill man spent some of his final days in significant pain with an undiagnosed broken leg because of the failings of his rest-home. Photo / 123RF
Otago Daily Times
An Invercargill man spent some of his final days in significant pain with an undiagnosed broken leg because of the failings of his rest-home.
The man (Mr A), aged in his 70s, who was in the dementia ward at the Rowena Jackson Retirement Village, complained of a painful upper thigh. While the caregiver did report this to a nurse, the nurse did not use a pain assessment tool or pain observation chart.