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Whumper pulls out a sharpie. Quietly, methodically, he marks out the parts on Whumpee's body that need to be operated on. That flab on their stomach, elasticity in their neck, plumpness in their cheeks. Whumpee whimpers through their gag, trying to pull away. One of Whumper's lines gets smeared.

"Now, now, you don't want me to make the wrong incision, do you?" Whumper's tongue clicks as he swabs away the line with an alcoholic concoction.

Shaking their head, Whumpee tries to say something but the gag stops them.

"What?" Whumper asks, "You want to know what I'm changing?"

Whumpee nods, huffs smothered but fervent.

Dubai has become a leading international healthcare destination, bringing together medical professionals from many countries. Among them, Turkish doctors are increasingly preferred for their strong medical education, structured clinical approach, and adherence to European medical standards.

Turkish physicians are trained with a strong focus on diagnosis, patient safety, and personalized treatment planning. This background allows them to work effectively in multidisciplinary and hospital-grade environments.

In Dubai, healthcare centers such as DRFK Turkish International Day Surgery Center reflect this approach by combining Turkish medical expertise with international clinical standards and modern medical infrastructure.

This picture is an example of a “WOW” also known as a workstation on wheels. These computers are new to my department and came with our electronic health record system change that we experienced almost two years ago. Prior to this change we did not have medication or patient scanning in our department. We simply printed out our medication order, went to the pyxis, obtained medications and used our paper order as our way of verifying the patient and medication safely. Changing over to the new electronic health record system EPIC was a big change for our department and staff members and these Wow’s didn’t help due to one main reason, the scanner was attached to the computer.  

I would have to go back to the identification stage of the design process as I was able to identify the problem within my first couple of hours of my shift when we were using this new system of scanning the patient and medication. The scanner is attached to the computer with a short straight cord. You must be close to the patient to be able to scan them and then the medication. The problem is that emergency department rooms are small, and patients are usually bed bound and may not be able to move their extremities to assist you in scanning their bracelet. There were and still are many times that my computer either comes rolling into my patients’ feet at the end of the stretcher, or into a visitor by accident due to me pulling the scanner closer to the patient. When we identified this problem to our management team, we asked why we didn’t have wireless scanners like the rest of the WOW’s in other units do. We were then given longer, spiraled cords due to the amount of cost it would be to change out all the scanners in our department. If our nurses were involved in the identification stage of the design process this could have been something that was foreseen, and we could have acted on this design prior to it being instituted into our department, saving the hospital time, and money. 

With the SCAMPERING method in mind I would use SUBSTITUTE toward a solution to this problem. I would substitute the scanners in our department to wireless scanners. We have an overabundance of computers and we can take the eight computers that are used by nurses daily for scanning and slowly start to change them over to wireless scanning. This would improve our employee satisfaction and may also improve our scanning percentage that at times suffers due to the amount of limited space and fast paced environment we work in. Some nurses chose to “click off” the medication versus scanning, or even scan the patient’s bedside labels due to the straight and spiral cords that do not allow the nurse to reach the patient. This poses a threat to our patient’s and patient safety that could be corrected by simply changing over to eight wireless scanners. The cost of the wireless scanners should never outweigh the cost of patient safety.

As therapists, part of our role is to make safety recommendations based on our patients’ physical and cognitive abilities. Much of our documentation explains how much help a person needs to do various activities.

Thus when I make a recommendation like “patient requires one on one supervision at all times”, I expect that to be taken seriously. And when the rehab supervisor and the entire nursing staff also recommend this I simply expect it to be done. However I was severely disappointed.

I previously introduced Nancy to you, the patient I worked with who was in a catatonic excited state. This recommendation was made for her as she was a danger to herself and others around her.

And yet I would find her wandering aimlessly down the hall alone, or screaming in another patient’s room. Frustrated, I would return her to her room where a staff member was supposed to be watching over her and several other “one on one” patients. The staff member was often unaware that she had been missing as he thought she was with one or another therapy discipline and in his defense, he was extremely preoccupied supervising at least 3 other patients who needed just as mention attention as Nancy.

We managed as best as we could until one day I again found Nancy ambling down the hall. I was assisting another patient to walk back to her room when I saw with horror that Nancy was about to walk straight into another patient who sat helplessly in his wheelchair. Nancy, completely unaware of her surroundings, continued to plow forward even though her leg was caught about the wheel. She keeled forward.

Forced to abandon my other patient, I reached out for Nancy and caught hold of her before she fell and before she could latch her hands onto the patient in his chair.

Furious that no one was with her again, I instructed one of the nurses to assist my other patient back to her room while I returned Nancy to safety.

Scratching and pulling at me the entire way, I slowly led Nancy back to her room.

“Why was no one watching her?!” I cried to the nurse at the station.

The nurse was clearly just as fed up as me. “We were told that we couldn’t spare any staff to watch her! No one is going to be sitting with her anymore!”

“Are you serious? This is not ok! She’s not safe by herself!”

“I know that’s exactly what I said too but apparently that doesn’t matter!” the nurse lamented.

“Who decided this?” I fumed.

“The director of nursing.”

“Come on Nancy,” I said, “we’re going to go talk to her.”

I took Nancy all the way to the office with me, afraid to leave her alone again. With every step I took I grew more and more enraged.

By the time I reached the DON’s office, I had morphed into the hulk. Without a warning I barged straight in and began to shout questions at the DON. After the surprise passed, I could see on her face she knew I was right but was going to give me her rehearsed answer anyway.

“We cannot afford to have staff here only to be supervising patients.”

“But she is not safe without it!”

“We are not legally required to provide patients with one on one supervision at this facility.”

“Then she should never have been accepted here if we can’t provide the care she needs!”

Another visiting manager frowned at me. “Who the hell is this?”

The DON continued however. “Well we had open beds that need to be filled and she is here now so we can’t change that.”

At this point I was so far gone that tears had accompanied my rage and my hands shook. “Right! She is here! So while she is here she has to be safe!”

The other manager jumped in. “She has no record of any falls.”

“That’s because we keep preventing them! I just stopped her from falling in the hall!”

“We have no evidence to show us she isn’t safe,” the ignoramus persisted.

I could see I was getting no where. “Well come on Nancy! I guess I’ll leave you to start that fall record!”

The next day, someone was watching Nancy again.