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Summarize article: An elderly patient, over 80 years of age, with a history of autism-spectrum disorder and requiring assistance with all activities of daily living and all transfers, lives in a group care home with several other disabled individuals who also require maximum assistance. She has been prescribed a daily dose of polyethylene glycol 3350 to prevent constipation, but she often has leakage of incontinent feces through pull-up diapers. On weekends, patients in this group home are allowed to sleep up to two hours later than on weekdays, when they need to leave earlier for adult day care. There are only two certified nursing assistants (CNAs) staffing the facility on weekends (versus three on weekdays); the CNAs are responsible for giving medications, helping five residents to dress and shower, preparing meals, feeding residents, cleaning up, and doing laundry. One of these CNAs finds the patient soiled in bed from fecal leakage, transfers her to a wheelchair, and then to a shower chair. The CNA showers and fully dresses the patient, but in the process, the patient has another bowel accident contaminating the area. The CNA calls for help to their coworker, who is with four other residents in the kitchen. Need Assignment Help?