Are you managing to get out and about with your job or are there areas of the island that are just completely unreachable?
I'm actually off this week - it was a planned week off. But otherwise it would have been impossible to visit anyone over that side - and I have no idea how the district nurses who cover the west are managing at all.
Usually everyone will ring around, and take over the patients they can most easily reach from home - so any patients up the east coast will be fine, and those in the far northern villages, as the nurses living in the Douglas/Onchan area, and those in Ramsey, can reach them.
I think one of the nurses does live in Peel and so could visit within walking distance inside the town, but I really don't think anyone would get to the people in Kirk Michael, Cronk-y-Voddy etc. The Home care teams will have the same problem.
Where the patients can't be reached, the nurses will ring them up, give them advice and see if they can cope without a visit, even if it is by staying in bed, as long as there is someone else in the house; but if there is a real need - for example an insulin dependant diabetic, living alone, who cannot give their own insulin, the emergency services will call in the helicopter crews.
My guess is that the elderly lady rescued by Prince William from her cottage at Cronk y Voddy was someone like that. The very disabled lady on my caseload who lives over there has a husband who would make sure the fire was lit and she got hot drinks, even if he had to boil water on the fire, between looking after any stock in the farm buildings, because he really is too old to go out to search for his own sheep.
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I'm actually off this week - it was a planned week off. But otherwise it would have been impossible to visit anyone over that side - and I have no idea how the district nurses who cover the west are managing at all.
Usually everyone will ring around, and take over the patients they can most easily reach from home - so any patients up the east coast will be fine, and those in the far northern villages, as the nurses living in the Douglas/Onchan area, and those in Ramsey, can reach them.
I think one of the nurses does live in Peel and so could visit within walking distance inside the town, but I really don't think anyone would get to the people in Kirk Michael, Cronk-y-Voddy etc. The Home care teams will have the same problem.
Where the patients can't be reached, the nurses will ring them up, give them advice and see if they can cope without a visit, even if it is by staying in bed, as long as there is someone else in the house; but if there is a real need - for example an insulin dependant diabetic, living alone, who cannot give their own insulin, the emergency services will call in the helicopter crews.
My guess is that the elderly lady rescued by Prince William from her cottage at Cronk y Voddy was someone like that. The very disabled lady on my caseload who lives over there has a husband who would make sure the fire was lit and she got hot drinks, even if he had to boil water on the fire, between looking after any stock in the farm buildings, because he really is too old to go out to search for his own sheep.