a daily calendar

Talking with the team lead nurse I expressed my concern that I believed Marie needed to be receiving rehab now. You could have knocked me over with a feather when she told me Marie was getting rehab. Speech, occupational, and physical. Sometimes the therapist would come to Marie's room and sometimes Marie would be taken out of her room.

Let me explain how I felt at that time. I was very glad Marie was getting some help. Bit it hit me that even though Marie was on neurological floor, the medical staff didn't seem to get that Marie's memory was so bad that she wasn't able to tell me that she was getting rehabilitation. Marie had been telling me that she had been getting surgery. Even though I question the nursing staff about the supposed surgeries none of them ever made the connection that Marie was really describing her rehab.

I pleaded with the team lead nurse, that the nursing staff needed to keep me informed about the things that Marie was going through when I was at work. We talked about a daily calendar that the medicals could fill in when that saw Marie so that I would know what was happening each day.