At my cardio placement at the moment, I have been required to take one of my patients down 6 stories to the physio department to partake in exercises because he is awaiting news on whether he is going to have a double lung transplant. This requires me to take him down in a wheelchair with his O2 as he will get too SOB and desaturate if he walks that far. For the last 2 weeks I have used the wheelchairs on the ward because they have a slot to place mobile O2 and they were the only wheelchairs i was aware of on the ward. This week a lady who had the key to unlock the wheelchairs (who i believe was either a orderly of a cleaner) joked at first that they should "charge us rent" for us to use the wheelchairs as we had our own and these wheelchairs were for them. She showed me this "physio" wheelchair, but i noticed that it did not have a place to put O2 and therefore was not suitable. I mentioned this to her, but she still pressed the fact that the other wheelchairs were for her use.
This made me a little annoyed, as I was using the wheelchair for a patient, to recieve treatment and she was making this more difficult.
I am not sure how I could have made this a better situation, as previous orderlies holding the key have not had an issue with us using these wheelchairs. Perhaps, by explaining that I will return the wheelchair within an hour and the need for this particulat type of wheel chair will help.
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