Sasha
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Actually... Nursing home nurses are one of the higher paid nurses because no one wants to do that job.
Being run by crooks doesn't excuse poor care and bad attitudes. My company is cheap and sometimes dishonest but i would never scream at or degrade my patients like I've witnessed nursing home nurses do. I would also never leave a patient sitting in filth like I've witnessed a nursing home nurse do. Patients are dirty? Because they can't clean themselves and the staff isn't helping them!!!
I don't buy the "they have too many patients so they don't know their patient" BS. I have had CNAs who are more knowledgeable than the LPNs and they've got tons of patients too. I also don't buy the "i just got on" "I'm never on this hall."
Story for you. We arrived to take a patient to radiation. Went to get report from nurse. She told me this is the first time she had the patient and she didn't know anything about her. Nada. Every question I asked "i don't know"
Patient asks if we want her to walk out to the stretcher, we tell her we would bring it in closer. She stands, her legs go out. We guide her down to the floor and I send my partner to get staff.
Nurse comes in shrieking that you should never trust the patient you should ask us before you try to walk them we would have told you she couldn't!
I asked her: you couldn't tell me a single thing about her, would you have even known if she could? She looked sheepish and told me that she knew she couldn't walk and that she says she can.
Next week I get the patient again. Same nurse. She tells me its her first time on this hall and she doesn't know anything about the patient. I told her wow! Your twin had her last week when she ended up on the floor, then, can you ask her to fill out my pcs?
I have taken patients to nursing homes who cry the entire way because they receive such horrid care.
Granted there are great nursing homes and great nursing home staff but they're the exception and not the rule and I am delighted when I meet them.
Being run by crooks doesn't excuse poor care and bad attitudes. My company is cheap and sometimes dishonest but i would never scream at or degrade my patients like I've witnessed nursing home nurses do. I would also never leave a patient sitting in filth like I've witnessed a nursing home nurse do. Patients are dirty? Because they can't clean themselves and the staff isn't helping them!!!
I don't buy the "they have too many patients so they don't know their patient" BS. I have had CNAs who are more knowledgeable than the LPNs and they've got tons of patients too. I also don't buy the "i just got on" "I'm never on this hall."
Story for you. We arrived to take a patient to radiation. Went to get report from nurse. She told me this is the first time she had the patient and she didn't know anything about her. Nada. Every question I asked "i don't know"
Patient asks if we want her to walk out to the stretcher, we tell her we would bring it in closer. She stands, her legs go out. We guide her down to the floor and I send my partner to get staff.
Nurse comes in shrieking that you should never trust the patient you should ask us before you try to walk them we would have told you she couldn't!
I asked her: you couldn't tell me a single thing about her, would you have even known if she could? She looked sheepish and told me that she knew she couldn't walk and that she says she can.
Next week I get the patient again. Same nurse. She tells me its her first time on this hall and she doesn't know anything about the patient. I told her wow! Your twin had her last week when she ended up on the floor, then, can you ask her to fill out my pcs?
I have taken patients to nursing homes who cry the entire way because they receive such horrid care.
Granted there are great nursing homes and great nursing home staff but they're the exception and not the rule and I am delighted when I meet them.