Aged care patient died while ‘jammed in a drawer’: coroner

An RN might have handled the situation better, inquest finds
Elderly

The death of a 63-year-old aged care patient whose head became stuck in a drawer has thrown the spotlight back on the reliance on enrolled nurses in understaffed aged care facilities.

John Reimers fell forward off his wheelchair at 5am while trying to pull something from his bedside drawer.