A Conversation with Nursing Home Residents About Staffing
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- On February 28, 2022, the Biden Administration announced it would be implementing new nursing home reforms including the creation of a minimum staffing standard in nursing homes, accountability for poor performing nursing homes, increased transparency around ownership and finances, and support for direct care staff. These reforms are critical and desperately needed to address the inadequate conditions that many residents face in their day-to-day lives.
In this episode, we speak directly with two long-term care residents, in Texas and Ohio, about the importance of these reforms, the problems they face in their day to day lives from inadequate and untrained staff, and what other improvements they would like to see that would help improve their lives in long-term care.
When will these reforms actually be implemented in the nursing homes? A friend just went into a ninety bed nursing home in Hawaii. He is suffering weight loss, diaper rash, tooth decay, bruises, and lack of medical oversight there. He is misdiagnosed by the therapists to justify leaving him in bed and in a wheelchair that restrains his ability to move. His personal clothes are misplaced or are in the laundry for two weeks to a month and he is put in clothing from a community pool. It is impossible to talk to the one doctor of the nursing home who owns another business on the side. There is no medical transparency or staffing transparency. The nursing home insists they are not understaffed. My friend spends most of his time in bed alone in a dimly lit room with four residents. He told me the other day that some of the staff should not be taking care of people.
MY brother kept asking for a shower and finally got one at 3 weeks. the worker will yell out ...we only have one aide today. or he puts himself on the shower list and they never come get him. they run out of important medical supplies for him for his trach. they refuse to change the dressing for his trach one saying day shift is supposed to do and day shift saying night shift can do it. theres much more i could tell.
Admins in these for profit nursing centers look at their residents like piece work in a factory ..I work in one and we are always short staffed. Our Governor in RI put a moratorium on our safe staffing ratio act due to the pandemic. BS . The staffing crisis is partly caused by crappy pay, long hours, double the work load without compensation and being mandated to work another shift if they have no staff. No regard for the workers lives. I feel so bad for these residents and everything they stated in this video is true. I get texts begging for help daily. This weekend was particularly short, yet admins and unit managers enjoy the wkend off. There is no shared sacrifice like they tell us. Big changes are needed.
Yeah true. Nurses don’t communicate with CNAs. We don’t get report. We don’t make change of shift rounds. We show up and wing it. I go into a room with a resident with MRSA but no one tells me until after I come out the room.
I work in Florida. Our Governor just signed a bill decreasing CNA daily direct care hours from 2.5/d to 2.0/d. Nurses had a max patient load of 30 but now its 40! The 3.6 hours/d for services stands but now includes services that were being given and not counted. Physical and Occupational Therapy, Social Services, Psyche. How can they keep staff that is overburdened?