I nominate the “Inter-Disciplinary Teams” where I work as Trashy Moms/Parents. Let me ’splain.
I work at a residential/teaching facility for adults with MR/DD (mental retardation and developmental disabilities). Three of the seven ladies I help care for have g-tubes, where they get fed by a tube that leads to their stomachs. They get nothing (but the occasional breath strip) by mouth. Two of the ladies can walk by themselves and have relatively good function of their limbs and good small-motor skills, which sometimes extend to taking the lid off their tubes or occasionally pulling them out (which necessitates a trip to the hospital).
One of these two ladies will open/pull out her tube simply for the attention it gets her. To lessen the probability of either of these two events occurring, she had been outfitten with a “belly band” and a body suit, to make accessing the tube more difficult.
Well, the professionals on the IDT have decided (as they do not want to hear from the people who work most closely with the residents) that the body suits and bands are an unfair restriction of the ladies’ rights. They have said that they are no longer to wear body suits during the day (when they do wear the belly bands) and secondly, they are not to wear the belly bands at night (but then they wear the suits)! These are not the staffers, of course, who have to get the residents up at night, give them 2nd and 3rd showers of the day and change their beds multiple times when most 9-to-5′ers are asleep.
To me, this the same type of sh*t ‘logic’ that says, “We never use outlet covers in plugs around toddlers,” “We leave caustic cleaners out, because our kids will not try and get into them if we’ve told them ‘NO’”, and ‘Screw looking both ways when you cross the street’”!
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