My grandmother has a nurse that stops by to help bathe her. Today that nurse heard of her constipation, and then proceeded to spoon it out of her. Actually use a spoon and do this task. I feel like this is wrong, should I contact the company that outsources these nurses and report this??
As I say this I think it's important as well to say if you aren't grandmothers primary caregiver/medical contact that's the person who should be the one to contact the company and address this. You may very well be the person who coordinates grandma's care and or her primary caregiver, you obviously care about her very much and are involved, I just mention the point person being the one to deal with it because it will keep the line of communication cleaner as well as not put stress on your relationship with the family or whoever is.
If this is an agency aide or Medicaid I would speak to her boss.
My SIL is a gastroenterologist and he would lose his mind if he heard this. MANY elderly die from perforated intestinal walls--
there is a 'spoon like' instrument that TRAINED nurses and drs use, but not as a first line of defense.
And complain to the nurses' company. This is NOT OK treatment.