Supporting People with Severe ME in a Healthcare Setting in the Safest Way

    

  

We recently came across a 2004 piece by Greg Crowhurst which was published in the Nursing Standard (UK) in February 2005 (pgs 19, 21, 34-38). The information emphasises that there is a lack of medical education and awareness about severe ME and that it is misunderstood despite its seriousness.

The information is aimed at nursing and other healthcare staff; it could also be used in any health/social care setting as well as in a home/nursing home setting to educate carers and staff who meet a severe ME patient, to support the patient in the safest way possible.

We have pulled out relevant extracts which may be useful for someone with severe ME, please see those in images and via our link below. Key features and symptoms are presented along with possible service responses and treatment options.

The items could be printed out and added to your medical file/presented to healthcare providers and others.

Please see all printable information via the link here

Many thanks to Greg Crowhurst

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