A family friend who’s hospitalized and unable to move their legs due to a neurological disease told me that staff become irritated when they use the call light at night for help repositioning, even though this need is documented in their chart. My friend is polite and appreciative but doesn’t know how to improve the situation. How should I respond to my friend? It seems like this is a serious breach of respect for those in the care of nurses.

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