Thanks for your answers so far, I should have said that I am a care assistant, I have worked for 8 hours solid, if I had stopped for a break at all, people would have still been left in their beds not washed, fed or medications given.
Yet, I get lunch money deducted whether I manage to take a break or not. I love caring, I am not in it for money, I am only paid £6.21 pence per hour. In fact I am not interested in money at all, I work for enough money to pay bills and feed my children. I do a lot of voluntary work in the community, as I care. I never take money from anyone for helping them. But some employers just do not care.
2007-03-01 05:10:03 · 6 answers · asked by Micky 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Unfortunately, what you experience is very common in the health care field. There are plenty of people who work 12 hour shifts, and the same thing happens to them. It happens to any who is caring for others. You can't very well go on break and leave patients in need of care.
Unless we become very proficient at managing our time, and sometimes even when we do, there isn't enough time. Probably the best method of find time for breaks would be teaming up with the other care assistants. Each of you should plan to go through your rounds when your shift first starts. Visit every patient and get each of them set up. When you're done, go to your workmates and decide who's going to take break first. While one person is at break, the others should care for that person patients, and their own, and likewise until everyone is done with their break. That way everyone has the same responsibility, and workload while the other is gone. If you get a good group going on your shift, that relies on teamwork, it'll make life at work much easier on all of you.
2007-03-01 05:35:17 · answer #1 · answered by IAINTELLEN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your employer needs reporting-he shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. People pay about 500-600 pounds a week to stay in a care home. The elderly deserve the best care we can give them. I was a care assistant for almost 10 years too. You sound like a good person. Have you asked your employer why he isn't providing other carers-I know it will be hard to face him down?
2007-03-01 13:18:03 · answer #2 · answered by Birdman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have enough money to take care of yourself and your children, and you enjoy what you're doing, then you are blessed and the people that you care for are blessed to have a truly caring person in their lives. You might be the only person to show loving kindness to the people you're caring for, and you're making a huge difference in the world. Employers don't care about that - they care about the economics of the business. It's people like you who make the world a better place.
That being said, you could care just as much and make just as big a difference as an RN, if you need the extra $.
2007-03-01 13:17:03 · answer #3 · answered by farmgirl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am also a care worker, work in a hospital in the us and thing are the same here, when imployers were asked why they did this they said because of our laws they have to take it out, it was our resposibility to make sure that we got our breaks, if we didn't get them it was our fault due to poor time managemant
2007-03-03 08:10:19 · answer #4 · answered by leschal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well now you have
and goof for you ,for being so good to people, you will be rewareded
2007-03-01 13:17:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its people like you that restore my faith in mankind.
well done
Keep up the good work!!!!
2007-03-01 13:15:36 · answer #6 · answered by looby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋