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When you do home health you can not always ignore a patient's request for personal hygiene. Assisting a quad with a BM or coaching a BM protocol is not something more Paramedics have ever done or want to do. Checking scrotums for breakdown on corticosteroid dependent or diabetic patients is not something most would want to do. Skin integrity assessments is even in a CNA's skill set even if it is the licensed who must document and initiate treatment. But, prevention is everyone's responsibility. You can not always just focus on one or two specific areas.
This is actually a really good point.
I can't help but wonder if many of the paramedics pushing for this even know what they are asking for.