Anyone here on yahoo work in a nursing home? What are your major complaints?

Question

Some of mine:
1. Low pay rates.
2. Lack of decent help.
3. Lack of involvement of state agencies with staff, and with nursing boards lack of involvement with staff.
4. Low benefits.

Depression never happened with me working there, you have to think how you are such a POSITIVE influence on these lovely old people, and for MANY -WE are ALL they have-do not be depressed-they DO love to LAUGH....

REPLY TO TS-
CALL YOUR LOCAL OMBUDSMAN IMMEDIATELY IF YOU FEEL YOUR RESIDENTS ARE BEING NEGLECTED!

reply TO BEV-
Wow, hun, you need to get a grip. Dementia residents are some of the easiest to work with. They live in their own little world, and if disrupted by changing their ROUTINES, they will strike out or get agitated easily. You sound as if you need to go to your administrator/director of nurses and get some time OFF !

REPLY TO ROBERT W.-
DO you have any openings in YOUR nursing facility? Sounds like a dream or the COMPANY that OWNS your facility is larger than the own that currently owns our facility.
Where I work, it has approx. 128 beds.
So it is a large facility, and the only one in a 20 mile radius.
younger folks-18-20 years old, I am sure I do not have to tell you the lack of responsibility that they possess, and if they have an attitude, it makes our work harder. As a LPN, I end up doing my work and theirs half the time. I reprimand, write up, and turn them in to the don. They do not want to ruffle the cna's feathers, because it would mean that they would possibly quit, and we would be shorter than we already are. The census you speak of which has to legally be posted with the nursing hrs. is posted with the PLANNED SCHEDULED emp. if call ins happen, they DO NOT adjust the sheets posted. I had 3 pts. c/o being verbally abused, reported it and the gal still works there, THAT'S bad.

Answer 1

Lack of respect from family members and adminisitration we do the majority of the work for the love of the resident, which wages and respect do not compensate for.

Answer 2

Do you or have you worked in a nursing home?

Ive been the Director of Social Services for over 10 years. I can agree that for the amount of work you do the pay is low. However, many of the people that work in a nursing home already know this and they keep their jobs for many years. It's a profession of love, not of financial success.

I disagree that there is a lack of decent help in nursing homes. There are always some bad apples in the bunch, but in general they get weeded out in a relatively short amount of time.

State agencies do get involved with a nursing home as often as they can. They get more involved when the staff at the nursing home follow the appropriate channels and contact them for help in areas the agency provides.

It has been my experience that the benefits offered at a nursing home are not bad at all. In all the homes I have worked in they offered medical, dental, visual and presciption plans at a relatively low price. The vacation and sick time is generally flexible with most homes willing to work with employees that do not abuse things like their sick time and how often they call off for a shift. Holiday bonuses, regular raises, etc... are some of the other benefits with the companies I have worked for.

The staffing ratio could always be better, but this is not the problem of the home itself. The state and federal government set a minimum # of contact hours for each resident and the homes have to provide ALL services with the monies they get for each resident. Some residents can be billed higher than others depending on their acuity. You have to remember that the home has to pay for all staff, services, building and maintenance, etc... with the monies they receive and sometimes this money takes a while to come to them.

My major complaint was always with the families. If they would become more involved in the care it would make it much easier for the staff to provide their care. If the families would stop and pay attention to what was going on with the resident, it would cut down on the frustration from the staff over family complaints.

Answer 3

Very stunning! lol No, i'm not frightened approximately it. If I stay long adequate i will in all probability be in one, i don't prefer to be a burden to my toddler. i began out traveling a nursing dwelling house 5-6 yrs in the past and that i've got informed my daughter to make particular i'm getting chocolate milk for lunch prevalent and buttermilk a pair situations each week. i be attentive to a great number of the ends and outs of the thank you to take income of my time there and that i already love Bingo. lol i'm hoping my better half and youngsters will come and bypass to and positioned across me treats. Then i'm going to be only superb there.

Answer 4

I have worked with the elderly in assisted living settings, I attribute this to be like a nursing home. The #1 complaint was that no one payed attention to what the elderly had to say in matters of propper care and nutrition.

Answer 5

can you keep a secret, once you know this you can't unknown this,Murphy's law,the dementia end of life is very powerful some of them have to become controllers, regulators, and most of all they drain you energy and strength to survive out of the staff that serves them til they die, i did three years of one on one 24 7 and the deal was eye had to very black looking rings around where my eyes used to be headaches forever and never got my energy back, the dementia people got a new toy when they get old and they love it, your serving them and pampering them can work until it's nasty and accusations in defensive sociopath mind boggling situations that once in your head it takes on life rather that just an image flash that you forget or loose quickly in your mind the dementia people have this ability to overrideyourfocus and wire you by stressing you over and over again in way you didn't see coming, the drain people are what is invisible but your boss is hoping you don't have a bad ration to contact with it's accumulative presents each day.

Answer 6

DEPRESSION HUNNY! Its so sad to see what this world is commin to and how many people really get sick. (Maybe those Jehovahs Wittnesses are right afterall)!