Nursing home hidden camera investigation: Understaffed and overworked
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- What's life really like for our loved ones living at long-term care homes? What happens when there are too few staff for the growing needs of the people living there? A CBC Marketplace producer wearing a hidden camera volunteers for weeks inside a Toronto nursing home. And we follow one daughter who installs a hidden camera in her mother's room and uncovers how she really died.
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i used to work in a nursing home and i wanted to do more for the residents but it's impossible. We were always short staff and abused by management. It's sad. Those elderly deserve better
You have such a kind heart, God bless you richly little one.
Agreed. I've wanted to quit so nany times before and try a different career, but that nagging "if I dont, who will?" would always stop me from giving up.
Most of my 28 years working in health care as a nurse has been in long term care nursing homes. The nursing staff is always at odds with the management because management is concerned about profit and hiring as few employees as possible. There should be laws regarding staff to resident ratio in the United States. The certified nurse's aides are generally some of the nicest people you will ever meet. It is sad to see the nursing staff at these facilities so overworked.
Same. Why i got out of the field. Tired of being overworked,under paid,abused by not only residents but management. Getting blamed for everything. Horrible.
The system is broken enough that even the wealthiest won't have caring nurses. Status quo for healthcare is breaking beyond recognition.
“Understaffed and overworked” THIS ISN’T NEWS. THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR TWENTY YEARS
Twenty plus this awful smdh
42 yrs. from my experience. Anyone outdo my time? Go for it.
Well over 20 years, I'd say.
Take care of your own parents! Don't throw them in one of these hellholes.
@@goodmorningsundaymorning4533 My mother didn't put my grandma in a nursing home (inspite of others in our family telling her that she should) and instead had her live in her (mother's) home. My grandma passed away last year.
This is the primary reason I didn’t want my Mom in a nursing home! Family members kept telling me to put her in one. I chose to quit my job and care for her myself, I had no help, it was so hard, but worth it to give her the best care, and spend her last years loving on her🙏🏼❤️🌷. I hope a better solution will come soon for these nursing homes🙏🏼❤️
My parents don't want to go into a home they are both in their 80's and I would never put them in one even if they become really ill or have dementia, like you Robin I will look after both my parents and if I need help would try and find a Thai or Filipino carer to help and have them live in. Sorry for your loss and you should be so proud of being their for her, you did an amazing job 💜
I’m a 22 year old, I was out in one of these because it’s mixed with physical rehab since someone tboned me and basically broke my legs so I can’t walk rn. I’m living in one of these right now and it’s SO bad. They are so understaffed it takes forever to get help. So many don’t get treated right and don’t get the car they need. Very very sad.
As a cna myself I would say this is the best choice you made because not just short staffed but cnas that stopped caring and don't fully provide the care and they're sitting in those rooms staring at the same 4 corners
every parent should be blessed with a daughter like you!!! No success in anything else can ever compensate for a failure to love.
Every children must do it you are ecample thanks😊
Start keeping your parents home, and pay health care to come in, after all they got to pay for the nursing home. People don’t want to work in nursing home, it’s too heavy
You are right , it’s what we did
Yup
If the home can’t hire enough people what makes You think you can hire people to come to your home. There are not enough people willing to do that kind of work. Pay them more. But we have a shortage of nurses too and they get paid much better but can’t be hired at any price. Adult children are often old themselves and sick with pain. They can’t lift another person or shower them.
Educate. Yourself before you criticize. Dementia will drive you crazy even when it’s your parent. Some parents haven’t been good parents and their children don’t give a damm about them. Parents are selfish. Cruel. Abusive. Why would their adult children want to care for them.
There are not enough workers to have private workers in every home especially during a pandemic. Just you try being at home 24/7 indefinitely. You will go crazy. You can not leave vulnerable people at home alone while you go shop or work. Even day care for elders is closed during the pandemic. If you leave your family member at home alone you could be charged for negligence.
As someone who is in healthcare and worked in longtime care homes, the biggest issue is they focus on efficiency not the quality of care provided. It is the most exhausting and back breaking labor job for low pay no benefits. And the hierarchical bs in the facility is the bigger problem. It is terrible...I quit after 6months
Judith Jackson -Was in this field for 20 years before I moved from NS to Ontario.I refuse to entertain the thought of doing this work for minimum wage that Ontario pays.
Until you work in LTC you can have no understanding how demoralizing it is .You are treated like absolute garbage by some of your direct supervisors who will quite blatantly tell you it’s not their job to toilet people or assist to feed and these people are heroes right out of the gate by virtue of the letters behind their name.The culture of horizontal bullying is the standard.
Care assistants are made out to be uneducated,lazy and abusive by the media -Why would anyone with the remote chance of finding other employment choose this line of work?
How can one care worker take care of 27 patients you kidding me.?
It happens every day
Same. Just after I quit, I went back to visit and found that the facility was now requiring each worker to put in an extra shift every week. If you didn't volunteer for it, they scheduled it in for you. Too few workers, all of them exhausted, and not enough time for the people who needed it. Very sad.
Judith Jackson PURE GREED..
That is why I left this work. Under pay and over worked.
Bless those elders, this is truly sad…but the pressure the staff have endure, they look so understaffed.
As someone who’s working in nursing homes and assisted living. I always advocate against putting your family members there. The lack of care from staff and management is astounding. Most people employed are only there for a check. A lot of these families have the means to provide in home care for their elderly family members, but instead would rather throw them in the hands of strangers who couldn’t care less about them. Please, if you have the resources to keep your elderly at home, keep them there
I also worked in a nursing home and also in home healthcare. I agree with you. Try your hardest never to put them in a nursing home.
I agree. I took care of my husband at home for six years after his stroke. He was a veteran who deserved dignity and respect. I was fortunate that the VA compensated me to be able to care for him in our home. My husband was grateful. He always put others before himself and now it was his turn to be tended too. RIP my darling.
My mother has been a CNA since the 90s and she loves the job hates the stress. She’s a small thing but can life twice her weight. There are a lot that don’t but are some that do care
Yes, keep your loved ones at home.
That’s not a fair statement, everyone doesn’t have the means to keep their loved ones home. The success of your parent in these facilities depends on family interaction, my mom is in a home and we are there all the time, we interact with all the aides , we show respect and encourage them always, we also help clean up our mom. It’s not all bad
I’m a nurse who works in a hospital, but when I was a new grad I took casual shifts at a local nursing home once in a while and it was absolutely tragic. Someone with a broken hip should be getting a trip to the emergency department ASAP, but some of the private care homes don’t like to do that because it makes them look bad and they get less funding from the government if their accident ratio is high. There’s a lot of fudging and “cleaning up” when the government inspectors come by. Also yes it is common for nurses to be assaulted in someway almost every day and we are basically low-key told to suck it up. The union tries to help and there have been some good videos in British Columbia put out by the union that really try to address this problem.
My mom's mom's limbs were amputated due to diabetic complications. My mom was sent to work in a nursing home from college so she could take care of her mom. She had to report bad staff. My brother had to brake my mom's bubble letting her know, her mom passed away. On another receiver, I heard my mom breaking down. I cry when I think about it. They were close.
The expectations they have for employees at those places are unrealistic
Fast forward one year. Check the date April 16, 2020. Nursing Homes, the poor souls, not just resident but also staff. The policy makers were well aware of the issues.
Pray for Front Line Workers and their families.
Very much so, but where does the funding come from... the government! This is pitiful .
What expectations are that? Doing the right thing?? Report, make a stink. Being on the front line means... you act greater because you see greater.
Maybe so, but thats not an excuse to take out your own frustration on a helpless patient.
How can they not afford to pay enough people when each person pays 12,000 a month?
I’m a “front-line” worker. It’s dangerous, emotionally draining, and backbreaking hard labor with very long hours. Administrative staff receive lofty salaries with benefits and bonuses, while some of these corporations (many who are for-profit businesses), don’t pay their staff enough to live on.
No mention about the pathetic and embarrassing wages these companies are allowed to pay their employees in this video. Most direct care employees don’t even come close to making $20 thousand dollars a year even after working overtime and double shifts all year long. And you wonder why nursing homes are always understaffed? This is a major part of the problem and unless laws are enacted to force them to change, nothing will change.
Corporates are the problems . If they paid their employees more for the hard work and diligence, they would be willing to work better and stay longer. But it’s a very demanding job with very low pay . That’s why these places have such high turnovers because no one wants to do a 20 men job for $11-$12 dollars/ hour . At the end after taxes that’s only $9-$10 dollars/hour .
Thats 100 percent right
I agree, I had a bad injury at work as a CNA for 25years b4 that I was a secretary & billingI, had surgery done & I retired early at 64, I’m in pain every day from my injuries but from one injury I did have surgery this job is mentally & physically bad, more help is needed it’s hard bc u want to completely care for your residents & with love. The high up people don’t care, I believe it will not get better. One thing for sure new CNA that start doing this, you can’t take 30 minutes for each resident care impossible, 15 minutes but most times about 10 when there’s only 3 Cna’s for 40-45 residents to care for
These residents are neglected not by us
My daughter & I took care of my mother we had pca come to help for 4hours 5 days
It definitely was not easy & it was heartbreaking but we didn’t want her in a nursing home.
@@nancyalvarado941 my current situation at my job , smh
That's horrible, I make more than that and I just work in a smoke shop.
I’ve actually worked in a nursing home and recently just quit and honestly. This video is super relatable, it’s hard for the aids to tend to 20-30 residents by themselves while also having to take out their trash, make sure they used the bathroom, briefs changed, clothes changed, using different types of lifts, etc. while having limited help. Sadly to say, a lot of nurses as well don’t support the aids as much and usually only do the minimum of their job. I really hope this can change because not having the time or strength is sad and the truth.
If you were to estimate the amount of aids to patient ratio, what would you say that would be?
@@JordanM8 it depends on how many aids are on the floor but typically it would be 3 aids splitting around 40 rooms or so. I would have at least 10-12 patients
@@JordanM8 Just work a bus driver , or forklift
well said, I am someone who went to school the whole year of 2021 to be a nursing aid and now deliver food. :(
I have worked as a CNA for over 20 years and if you can't work with elderly or disabled people with care and patience than stay out of the medical field. These people are in their golden years. Its our job as humans to make their every day life easier and show them the dignity and respect they deserve. One day if your lucky to live that long someone will take care of you and karma can come knocking. I have always enjoyed helping and taking care of my patients and hearing about their stories. If you take the time to get to know them you can take the hardest time of their live and make it acceptable for them. Its a life they didn't ask for.
That should exactly be what CNAs/PSWs should be able to do, be able to sit down and actually listen to their concerns and stories and learn about them as people, as opposed to treating them like patients and moving on to the next one
And that can’t be done without better staffing ratios. The few times I’ve tried doing that, I end up spending an hour in the room, with 4 of my call lights going off (they’re not very loud) and nurses screaming at me to ignore talking residents and just answer the call lights, I had 12 patients that day
Gosh, you must be my twin, same mental thoughts, well said ❤❤❤❤
Hell yeah we are understaffed and overworked. One nurse with 30 patients.. are you kidding me ???
30 resident per nurse with $18/hr
Alpha omega ?
That is nothing. I have seen 1 nurse to 52 patients at a time
Serena Livingston Im sure if you are a nurse yourself you would understand that we are simply overworked. This isn’t a competition to see who has more patients to play around with. Lots of graveyard nurses at my facility do 60. Regardless, depending on the acuity, anything more than 15 patients at a time is way more than one person can handle.
@@GodsDiamond7 I am a nurse. No competition, just saying I have seen worse.
I worked in a nursing home before i joined the military. Overnight we would be assigned 1 per hallway of 30+ residents and we had to have them up for breakfast before the 6am shift came on. So if we are at one end of the hall and someone else at the other end needed us, they are left waiting. Besides the fact that a lot of residents are considered a 2 person lift yet no ones available to help so we are left risking their safety and ours to get them up. Its so sad and very hard.
That's horrible and unacceptable.
It's true my mother did it for years the stories she told me are horrifying!
Same here....So true!
That's sad.
I noticed the ratio issue at a care place in Houston where my mom was.
I had to stay to do most of the things for my mom
Yes been there, done that. Left after a few months. My heart could not take the neglect and understaffed situation.
It is a BLESSING to have your parents at home. They are an important part of YOUR family that will enrich your life! Bring in outside help if you need a break or extra care. It's not only cheaper but you will learn from this experience about compassion, love, and your own kids will learn respect for the elderly! It's the circle of life!
For years workers in LTC have been saying they are under staffed. Start listening.
1 nurse for 143 patients? Why even bother.
for the money that is why she bothers! LOL....not for the caring of the patients!
The one nurse don t do personal care it s the aids job it s more aids than nurse
It’s complete Suicide
@@ronbonora7872 You can volunteer and hang out with the lonely elderly!
40+ hours a week would be great!
@@ronbonora7872 every1 needs money but she can't give proper care 2 ppl if she has so many residents.
When I was a CNA I started work 30 minutes before my shift so that I could help the CNA I would be relieving with toileting, getting report, vitals, and setting up my supplies for my shift. I worked on a lockdown dementia unit 1500-2330. We had the same staff every week so we worked like a well oiled machine. The CNAs loved the residents like our own grannies and paps. I was dedicated to my responsibilities and I was paid well with great benefits. I eventually became a nurse and I pride myself on helping the CNAs with vitals, toileting, trays and feeding. I know how terrible some places can be but I choose to be the light in the face of darkness.
Thank you!!! Forever..thank you!
carmelized11candi I am also a CNA its tough job but I love taking care of all these old wonderful souls. I just wish there would be more staff we are always understaffed
Not many nurses will help the cna's! They would rather sit behind the desk and listen to all the lights going off!!
carmelized11candi we need more nurses like you because some think they are too good to help
Well, it's great that you had enough staff and you get paid well.
Who else is watching this now because of the recent reports ( ontario/ Quebec) of concern during this pandemic? Please if you can, try to keep your elderly family in their own home or yours..... heartbreaking....
These places are heartbreaking to work at. I would run between rooms trying to give care to 75 residents. I love working with them, but there is never enough time and definitely ot enough staff
It’s very sad after covid it’s still like that
We never have nursing homes when i was growing up we take care of our own.
Good!
We don't have this in Africa..can't imagine sending my parents to another person to care for....
Thank you so much
That's what we did with my grandad no way would we have put him in a home... No way he was my world even though my kids are still teens I've taught them that you look after your own....
THAT IS SO TRUE I TOOK CARE OF MY FATHER THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE
HIRE "MORE" HELP and PAY DESCENT WAGES This is not a rocket science issue.
It's very simple but is not happening. It clearly shows how evolved our society is. This money and ego driven world doesn't have interest to provide decent last years for elderly. They are not producing, contributing anymore, to this system they are burden. There are studies, procedures, talk about how to improve care blah blah blah.. the truth is this world doesn't care about elderly!
IT WILL ONLY HAPPEN WITH LEGISLATION!!! NURSING HOME OWNERS MAKE TONS OF MONEY! MONEY THAT COULD HIRE MORE EMPLOYEES, AND THEY WOULD STILL BE RICH!!!!!
Hire more help and pay higher decent wages. Can't understand this.
But again, who wants to do this kind of high stressful job for low pay?
And you wonder why there's such a high turnover rate in these facilities.
@@jszoradi8650 tax dollars are going to the likes of the queen, Meghan and Harry......get rid of the Sovereignty to free more tax dollars for the elderly.......I wish this gov would do just that..
Majority of people DON'T want to work at Nursing homes. They'd rather chase for their dream instead of living in old person smell for the entire day.
If you ask me, I don't mind working there. But not majority, even with decent wages.
This is exactly why I got out of the nursing side of working in long term care. I am now an activity director and would not ever allow someone to wait an hour for the restroom. Its refreshing to know I work in a great facility, yes we my have short nursing staff time to time but our residents would never be abused or neglected like this.
That’s the sad thing is I’m a good CNA but I’ve worked alone on a hall with 22 people. And the only thing I could do is check on them all every hour and change them every two hrs. Because of low staffing and it’s not fair to anyone. I’ve been so overwhelmed and the residents don’t get the care they need like showers or brushing teeth or getting people up and down for meals because we can’t use lifts with just one person.
This!
Yes u can use a lift with one or pull the nurse off the chart to stand in the room while u do it
I pull the nurse off the chart to help if I need help. And 22 is light work..just organize
If the caregivers got paid more than minimum wage perhaps they'd stay better staffed and have quality workers with better attitudes! Overworked and underpaid are not good grounds for staff to begin care on!!
No. Changing pay does not mean more staff. It boils down to how many nurses can work each shift based on census.
@@Fiyera I know and I didn't mean they'd have MORE staff... I meant maybe they'd have quality workers on staff. Facilities wouldn't be hiring new folks every week if they paid accordingly to the work that's required of this these people. Then perhaps the patients would get better care and formulate trusting bonds with familiar faces; not have to get used to a new face every other week. 💞
I did notice a shift in things where care work, instead of being something people did because they were passionate, or wanted to work upward from; just became just the alternative to Tesco (grocery store)
Taking care of our elderly and disabled is a very overwhelming,they're also lots of jobs and positions that are very overwhelming but taking care of a elderly and disabled is the most rewarding things so they need to be rewarded with the best careever and from the top if it means Congress who's ever over the health field need to make sure that they have all the funding that they need to take care of these precious peoplewill they live in these institutions and the people that are taking care of these people should be paid more money and they always need plenty of help so that one or two people will not be strained there's no reason in the world that one person one nurse should be taken care of 127 people there's so much money giving it to people and places that I do not deserve it definitely needs to be in these places let's take care of our loved ones if they are combative there are some natural remedies that can calm them down
Fiyera they base thing on census but not ACUITY which is what matters. These residents are extremely difficult to take care of some taking multiple staff members to care for, these workers are overworked and under paid. The need better pay, appreciation and help
I’ve worked in health care for 15 yrs. I left over a year ago & don’t know if I’ll ever go back. Health care aides are EXTREMELY overworked & underpaid for the job they do. NOTHING is going to change until they start employing more people & paying these workers more.
Patients are usually bathed once a week & are lucky if they get their teeth brushed before bed. Many lay in wet diapers all night until morning staff comes on. Meals are quickly piled into mouths. Some patients wait & wait & wait to use the bathroom.
Gossiping among staff. Management is usually a joke. They put on a good front but don’t really care when it’s back to normal everyday business.
These are people’s loved ones & they are treated like cattle.
There are many caring health aides out there but they are overworked , underpaid & burnt out.
I agree and the children of these elderly need to take responsibility for the care of their parents. If they are in the long term facilities spend time with them each day. Go without your luxuries down size your homes and care for your parents.
lissa barnes
Absolutely.
I’ve looked after a lot of patients over over the last 15 yrs. If I’m being generous I’d say maybe 25% of them had family that regularly visited, took an active role in their care, took them home on a regular basis for the day / weekend. The vast majority had no family or friends that came to visit or they came very rarely (Christmas, Birthday etc). There were a few that legitimately didn’t have any family left. But most of these people are basically dumped in these hospitals or care facilities and are left there to rot.
Staff are run ragged trying to keep up with all the patients & work load until they are so burnt out & run down that they just don’t care anymore which in turn significantly affects the patients . It’s a vicious cycle & the people with the power to change these things WILL NOT listen. This has been going on for a long time. It needs to stop. More staff need to be able to speak up without fear of repercussions. Complaints from staff , patients & family need to be taken seriously & they need to be dealt with appropriately. Instead it’s glossed over for the public view but behind closed doors it’s a different story. I finally left over a year ago. I could not deal with it anymore.
Very true.
Gracem2013 its same here in europe I’m a CNA and its heartbreaking
Yes indeed it's not just one nursing home all nursing homes are the same
I've worked LTC/SNF units for over a decade. I STILL feel panic attacks creeping in just thinking about going to work. I adore my patients and wish I could spend more time with them but it's not possible. Patient family members (for good reason) want better for their loved ones. And they deserve better! But we are being pulled in all directions from the moment we step onto the floor to the moment we leave. Most workers really love the residents. But there are just not enough people for the workload given. You go to work and try your hardest but you're still told you're going to get sued because you couldn't get to Mrs. X in time because you've been trying to help Mrs. X, Mr. Y and Mr. Z. It does feel like you're set up to fail
Imagine living your entire life taking care of yourself, working to make a living for yourself and your family only to be told as an elderly individual when you can use the freaking restroom. We have GOT to put a stop to our elders being abused.
I too worked as a CNA and when hired as a floater in nursing homes I can tell you the care is BEYOND NEGLIGENCE AND CRIMINAL. THIS VIDEO DOESNT EVEN TOUCH THE SURFACE IF WHAT IVE SEEN DONE TO THESE POOR HELPLESS PEOPLE. IVE SEEN THINGS THAT WILL STAY WITH ME FOREVER. IF I WERE TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING IT WOULD TAKE UP PAGE AFTER PAGE AFTER PAGE AND IT STAYS WITH ME WVERY DAY. I HAD TO CALL AUTHORITIES MORE THAN ONCE WHEN I SAW ACTUAL PHYSICAL ABUSE.
PRAY FOR THESE POOR ELDERLY HELPLESS PEOPLE
N Brown pray for the cnas taking care of these people after they’ve been dumped like a stray dog
@@susanfrye1440 no joke, they aren’t paid enough to justify their work.
That’s a big issue. CNA salaries here are about the bare minimum if not lower for a job that entails way too many responsibilities.
At one place I worked, CNAs got paid the same a a factory worker - $9 an hour. Yet, they had to lift people twice their weight on a frequent basis. Some factories won't hire women usually because there's a 40 lb lifting requirement. yet, CNAs are mostly women and lift far more than that - and often have severe back pain from it.
I wouldn’t put my dog in this place 🤦🏽♀️
Dogs are loyal and kind
It’s very hard but I understand both perspectives from the client’s to the workers . I worked in a few nursing/assisted living homes while pursuing my PHD and I can say that it is a very demanding , and sometimes emotionally exhausting job, especially consistently being short staffed , most employees never even made it two weeks before quitting.I stayed as long as I did for my clients because I genuinely enjoyed making their day. The relationships i made with some of my clients and knowing I was helping them was what kept me going .
Thank god for hidden cameras that can also record audio. I, like others, believe there should be cameras (hidden or otherwise) in every room, and in common areas. It should be a requirement in all nursing homes, keeping all individuals accountable for their actions.
The problem is, though, that it would come down on the staff and the staff is set up to fail by the management.
I fully support this. It would be good overall in being able to review the needs of the system that is in place for that particular home/hospital and how they can make adjustments with what they do have to work with. It would also be a wonderful tool for accountability in staffing, and also to detect any deteriorations of the patient's health needs that would require extra support. It just makes sense to me.
More family's need to take care of their family
If the family member will let you
Theres a point where you can't Physical and mental do it. There needs to be better rules in place.
People try to take care of their elderly. But at some point it's too much. That's why care facilities need more staff to help care for the elderly.
Yes
I myself am disabled. I physically would never be able to care for mom. She is 78 years right now. I don't even want to think what is coming for us.
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I'd rather be dead than stuck helpless in nursing home hell.
Me too!
Me too!
Ditto.
I totally agree I am going to dignitas in Switzerland
I'd rather go to a prison where the care is better.....
GO VISIT YOUR LOVED ONES MORE!!!!
These places need our help & support!!
this make me want to go and work at a home. i love going up there and seeing, talking to them. they always have interesting stories and they’re so sweet. these people are why we’re even here and the fact that they’re treated so horrible make my heart hurt so much.
I've called the state myself on the facilities I worked at ..they rushed us thru care telling us we don't have time to do this or that and that other residents were waiting, I use to punch out at night and sit in the hall ( on my own time ) to hold hands with the residents that I " didn't have time" to console or chat with during my shift, I cried when I'd get home saying "I can't do this "..emotionally it took a toll on me to not be able to give them the time that they deserved ..
Need time management skills. I spend 5 to 20 mintiues just talking to them and still get done on time
The company I work for sell it the new people took over don't care as much
Everybody gets “2” free 15 minute breaks and “1” 30 minute lunch break for which you have to clock out for. Stop trying to make yourself out to be something that you are not. If you was clocking out, you was clocking out on your 30 minute lunch breaks that is required to clock out for or the facility would’ve definitely be inquiring why you were clocking on their time!
@@robincooper1182 learn to read. Try sounding out the words REAL SLOW.
@@jennifermoriarty2188 I'm so happy for you. Not sure where you worked or how many residents you were responsible for but you assume that it's the same amount for all it sounds like. Either way I'm so impressed by your "time management skill" lol. 👍
Take your loved ones home with you, and hire in home care giver.
Snowfirel they would rather dump them in a place like that so they don’t have to brother with them 🤬😡
I'll agree with what you said Snowfire| cause instead putting thems in a nursing home they can stay in there on home in staff can come into there home in take care of them HOW I KNOWS CAUSE I'M a Certified nursing Asst myself in have worked in many Nursing Facility in Many Resident homes so yes they can stay home just as well in a Nursing Facility or Asst Living Homes
ABSOLUTELY YES! The woman Sharon in this video, she said that she found scratches on her mother's face and lots of bruising on her body and even said that it looked like she had been punched in the face! How would she not move her dear Mother after seeing that!!!??? Oh my goodness take her home with you and get her out of there woman!!! No, she created a group on Facebook and named it after her Mother... Wow! Wow! Wow!
@@Flowerhead247
How crazy, eh, she should've had her mother out of there immediately.
Surely it cant cost that much more to hire help, to come into their own family homes .. than the price of putting an elderly parent, in an understaffed facility, where they are neglected.
What a tragic, undignified way to spend your last, what should be golden years, stuck in a place where no one has time to even help you go to the bathroom 😔
Only in a perfect world
I worked in long term care for twenty years. I burnt out, I couldn't take it anymore. Hardest, most difficult and heartbreaking work I have ever done. There are never enough staff. Realistically, for people to get the care they really need and deserve they need one on one caregivers. That will never happen. Too expensive. Suffering is cheap.
When I was a care aide I used to do nights. I was the only nursing aide with 34 residents. I left the job after 7 months. Thank God I don't do that anymore.
I'm currently a male psw at a nursing home, and I agree with this video. The morning shift there are 4 psw's and 1 nurse per unit. Evenings, 3 psw's, 1 nurse per unit. Nights, 1 psw(unit) + 1 float + 1 nurse(for 2 units). The morning shift is definitely like a conveyor belt - rush the residents out of bed (no upcare, just a brief change), and off to breakfast. After that, residents either go back to their rooms, sit next to the nurse station, or alone in the lounge area. Evening shift - residents do get more attention from recreational activities, and more care is provided, but psw's can't spend 1 on 1 care, as we're down to 3 for 32 residents. The night shift is ridiculous. I have personally denied working the night shift, as you're in charge of 33 residents by yourself, and can easily injure yourself from running around rampant, trying to answer call bells, chart, do 2 hour changes, while also supervising fall expected residents at the nursing station. I've seen times where people have called in sick, and there is no psw's on the night shift, just one nurse to cover 2 floors.
The entire problem is the staff shortage and funding.
Families need to understand that we can't focus all our time on their loved ones, as we can't physically do it. We can only do the bare minimum, and then move onto the next resident. If we had more than twice the workers per shift, we could do so much more.
At this current time, (if you can afford it) keep your loved ones at home and hire community/private psw's to take care of them.
Supernatural Explorer I think it is how extreme capitalism has became
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@@any123-og ..and YOU have done WHAT to make a difference? I'll wait....
i agree. families couldnt care for 1 disabled elderly person at home yet they expect 1 person to care for 30.. its not possible.. its keeping them alive, some not even
This isn't just the case in Canada, it's this way in America too.
If u HAVE to have family in LTC, there's a few things that can improve your loved one's chances at good care.
Hidden "Nanny" cam in room.
Visit OFTEN and unannounced.
Investigate the facility before placement...NOT just what staff says either. Check out complaints to the state and what was done to correct that.
Don't be afraid to ask questions and question answers that don't sound right.
I started out working as a CNA and you always knew when "The State" came in for their Inspections. Administrative staff would be helping push people to the dining room, pouring coffee for their breakfast, ect., ect.
I was so unhappy about the state of the facility I worked at I thought if I furthered my education and got a higher degree. I mistakenly thought I could make changes and be heard. No such luck.
The only facility I worked at that really seemed to care wasn't part of a corporate facility.
LTC facilities need to STOP being just a place to wait to die. Families need to START taking an active role in the life of their loved one's and visiting once a year doesn't count.
Oh yeah the trusted front management staff that acts like they know stuff in front of the families. But what you don't see is those same people coming to the care staff first and asking questions about a certain resident cause they don't know them at all.
I quit practicing as an RN for the same reasons. It's a no win situation. You made gr8 points in your post. I think all people should learn A&P in schools. It would allow consumers to be more active & knowledgeable in their care, much like a mechanic gets better car care. Peace sister!
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You left one thing out. Take on your share of the care. Just like the parents did for you.
@@shecat1964 true!
So happy my Sisters and I take care of our 89yr old Mom, who has dementia.
As a CNA for 27yrs. I will never do it again. I no longer want to physically, Mentally or verbally abused. By staff,residents,or family members.
Here's the answer: take care of your own. Or volunteer. If you've got time to get your nails done, you've got time to help with your Mama. Sorry
Beth Gresham I totally agree 👍🏽
Amen to that !!!!!
I've been watching/caring for my 89 year old mother for several years. It can be very stressful at times but I could never leave her alone in a care home because of the understaffing and lack of funds. I just couldn't. I'd be afraid for her.
@@ghostkeeper6218 Thank u for doing that. I'm sure your mom appreciates it. I wish all kids would take the time and make the effort to care for their parents
I just came by this video.
What you say is not going to work.
I live in the Netherlands. When my mom was in a nursing home everyone got an catheter simple because the staff had no time to get to the bathroom room with patients. It was smelling like pie in there. One day I broad my mom back from the hairdresser when nurses had their break. There was only one nurse and she said when she is on her own she is not allowed to put people to bed. I’m handicapped but I managed to get my mother in her bed because she was to tired to sit and wait for another our. After that I talked to the nurse and she told me that where they used to be with 7 on one ward they are now with 2.
My mom was an volunteer in that home for years and they were really upset they could not do more.
We were there everyday but there is a lot you are not allowed to do because off insurance issues. You can keep your parent company and help them with eating and drinking and walk with them. That is it. Only the last week when my mom was dying we were allowed to stay at night. It is not so simplistic as you think.
There are also a lot off patients who don’t get visit at all. Not everyone has time to sit there all day.
I have only one child. They can’t expect that she is sitting with me 7 days a week.
Again it is simplistic to think family members can take over the care.
Wow I couldn’t even think of putting my parents in a care home when they are elderly. They took care of me my whole life so when they get older it’s my job and honor to care for them.
Of course. I'm sure as the one lady loss her Son and his loss led to her residing there.
Of course but it's not that simple. If you have to work full time and your loved one needs 24-hour care you may have no choice. I take care of my elderly mother. I have no immediate family, none. I was my mother's only child. My father died years ago. I have no spouse and no children. I am not working, I need to have a surgery right now. As my condition or worsens I need to find someone to take care of my mother so I can have surgery. There is a three-month recovery needed for my surgery. Who will take care of her? Can't work until I have the surgery. Living off savings which will not last forever. Can't work until I get the surgery. Can't get the surgery until I figure out something about her care. And it goes around and around!!
Absolutely, I agree, but sometimes it’s not that simple for everyone.
yea , not that simple girl.
Very true
I clean residents' rooms in nursing homes, occasionally, as part of my job.
Going into those places really breaks me, deep down, seeing some of the residents in there. I find myself silently wondering what their lives were like before they entered the nursing home.
I feel especially sad when I see the frightened, vulnerable ones who don't know where they are, and loudly cry out for their families.
My widowed grandmother was placed in a NH a few years before she died, and it always broke my heart each time I saw her in there, no matter how upbeat she seemed.
It was painful to think about how she'd had to give up the life she was accustomed to, leave her house of 60+ yrs, and live the rest of her days without my grandfather.
I felt the exact same way when my great grandmother went into the same NH, years before.
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Yes I'm keep my mom with me alway also my wife she love my mom so much and my daughter too we happy i don't give up to make my mom go anywhere for best my mom is my life who did everything for me when i was small
I work in long term care. This has to change!! We are doing our best with so little help.
So do I and most of the reason why people quit is because of money and staffing
Same!!!!
Me too, smh
What happens when you cut pay and increase expectations? Fewer people are willing to take the job. This is the consequence of entitled idiots assuming you don't have to pay full price for social programs
I’m with you guys! I’m a nurse, volunteer to an assisted facility , and I seen it all. Nursing is a vocation not a career! It’s a calling!
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Labeling it a "calling" just leaves you open to be exploited and expected to take whatever you're dealt and is not productive. Notice how we were called "heroes" the last 2 years? Sorry, I'm a nurse, and while I feel it's a calling for me personally, it's still a job that should have the same basic protections and respect as any other job. We're already gaslit into accepting unacceptable assignments due to guilt.
Thanks to the brave reporter who did that ambush interview.
Oh my heart. That 80+ yo woman calling for her mama :(
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If you see your family member in these conditions you have the option of taking them out . No one is forcing you too leave them there with poor treatment .
most of the nursing homes are in this state. Its not as simple as taking them out.
@@rangerswing Yes it is
It’s not.
A lot of people are unwilling to make sacrifices for their families I've noticed. Their money and current quality of life is more important to them than making sure the person who birthed and raised them is surrounded with love at the end of their life. Any change whatsoever is unacceptable.
Had time to put a undercover camera in her mom's room but not visit more ?? Daughter is as much to blame as staff for her mom's passing!! I can't stand people who place their loved ones in these homes!!! It's sad
I'm literally crying for these families and people!!
The elderly should be at home being taken care of by their own families!!!
Some have no family. Never had children.. Family members are dead or states away.. It's sad.
Really? I'm disabled and probably will end up in one of these. I too have no kids my brother has no kids. My family is all dead. My daddy fell and broke his hip had surgery and ended in a rehab place to help him get on his feet. It was a nursing home and my poor pops passed in there. It breaks my heart but I couldn't take care of him. My brother wouldn't help he worked and he was too tired. I had no choice.
ATOM not all families can take care of their elderly. It’s not as easy as said and done! I’m disabled, in a wheelchair and my mom declined and I tried to keep her at home but I couldn’t do it, not even with the help from the visiting nurses. It was just too hard. She needed a lot of help to walk, get up from a chair, bed... no it just isn’t always possible so please don’t be so judgmental about those who cannot keep their loved ones at home.
Probably you don't know about western culture.Europeans,North Americans(except Mexico) don't care about their parents when they get old
@@samdelon That's what's bad, the western world looks the other way at the elderly, disabled and young children. We want to throw them into facilities and hope someone else can do what we are too busy, too lazy, too unwilling to do. Then when something goes wrong we want to point fingers. You are right, Mexicans, American Indians I know take care of their own, no matter what!!!
I worked in a nursing home as a nursing assistant.
I had 20 patients per shift. It was so difficult but I ensured all my patients were cared for. No way I let ANYONE SUFFER! It is sad... so sad... how some patients suffer like this.
I quit my job because they do not allow me to help them they want me to follow the rules, i end up doing other cna job i was begging for help begging the administration to watch what was going on at night shift. I decided to quit i was afraid to smack one of the cna they spend time in their phones, sleeping, smoking outside.
You are lucky. Nurses on dayshift often have more than 30 patients, And at night sometimes twice that or more. That’s assuming everyone showed up for their shift and you’re not short
You only had 20 patients? That's literally nothing; try 60 patients by yourself.
@@Scar-jg4bn 60 PATIENTS?! That’s wild.
@@caterinasimms6443 what was going on at night shift
I'm also a support worker in another European country. The discrimination against staff of color is too much especially in care homes.
As a professional caregiver and been a caregiver for 6 years now, more immediate family members need to start helping their loved ones. We’re exhausted and we get it but like damn, this isn’t exaggerated One bit.
I took the PSW program at Algonquin College and when I graduated, got a job right away. The one thing that got me to stop this type of work is the bitches that are in charge of the PSW's at most nursing homes. You get to know and love the old people but the work environment is usually so poisonous with the gossiping ect that it just made it intolerable to work there.
That's what's happening at the place I work in. We have one person in charge of us who just wants positions of power to boss us around. But the place I work in only has less than 40 residents so we have time with them to give the best care.
Sounds like some pretty, school aged kids. It's a shame because they're usually not the cheap option.
Bingo
It's best to get together and help each other take care of our elders.
What is so devastating about this is that the families, patients, CNAs, and nurses are all on the same side. As a healthcare worker - we hate that we can’t be everywhere. We hate that we can’t give every patient the time, care, and attention they need and DESERVE. We have been begging for more staffing into the void that is administration.
My dad was in for a month for rehabilitation after a hospital stay. Because of covid, no one was allowed in to visit. Luckily he said they all treated him ok except one person was rude. After watching these videos I asked him how they treated him. His complaints were no one would come forever when he called for help, and he was in his room the whole time by himself, oh and the food sucked. I've been at home with him for 2 weeks now and he's really appreciating hot home cooked meals.
After watching these videos there is no way I'm going to let him go in a home long term. He's still capable at home, but is pretty much at the point he should not be home alone now.
I volunteered for a nursing home back when I lived in Toronto and it was heartbreaking. The staff was overwhelmed, the food was mediocre, and not enough people came to visit their loved ones even on weekends. There wasn't enough funding and it was obvious in every aspect of theit life there. ☹
There is one of the biggest problems. And a real thorn in my side. The responsibility also lays with the families. Why are these families dumping their parents in places they know are under staffed. It should be a requirement the families contribute to care. Just like how you cant leave your kids at a day care 24/7. Some of these families should be ashamed. You were not too much work for them, they tossed you away like garbage.
Yea the families just put them in there and don't bother to come visit, so they are culpable too
@@shecat1964 i 1000% AGREE!!!! the families are absolutely categorically DISGUSTING DISGUSTING DISGUTING AND TOTALLY SELF-CENTERED & SELF-ABSORBED!!!! IT'S ALLLLLLLLLL ABT "THEIR" PRECIOUS TIME & CAREER CAREER CAREER!!!! WHERE ARE THE GARNDCHILDREN TO HELP??? I KNOW FIRST HAND!!! I NEVER LEFT MY MOTHER IN A NURSING HOME. AS HER CHILD I WAS THERE 24/7 & WHN I GOT EXHAUSTED I CALLED OUT THE BLOODY TROOPS!!! YES!!!! THE BLOODY GRANDCHILDREN!!!! AND OTHER SYBLINGS!!!!
They just drop their parents, who raised them, off like it is someone else's problem. Too much of an inconvenience to help take care of the person who raised you? Jesus Christ, toxic whiteness.
@@shecat1964 Your 100% right in my opinion. You call them your loved ones and never go see if they need anything or help them? Could you imagine laying in bed or staring out a window day after day after day. I use to go long time ago and visit the elder but its been a while. I guess maybe I should start going again.
The money they get. Ha. Management receives a bonus if they don’t “overspend” on sanitary products 🤦🏻♀️ change is needed so so so so badly
Yes exactly true and still to this day it's like that till this day I work in a facility its awful and management does not care
That's always the case. The greed of the nursing home owners priority is MAKE MONEY!
You are so right.I think it's time they need to be accountable.
How do you overspend on sanitary products? Furthermore, why would Sanitary products be an item of incentive in overspend to receive a bonus? Now I understand why they're sitting in those freaking diapers or depends until they're full, not because they can't get to them. This is so disgustingly disgraceful. How would it be looked upon if human beings treated babies like this? Leave them in the same diaper all day long, put a call button in their crib if they need you. How about for every parent that saves at least a hundred bucks a month on vegetables, shoes clothes, forget the insurance, take that money and go to the bar and party!! No sitter, ah leave the dog with em. Now that sounds absurd, people have been charged criminally for such acts. However, the elderly are truly the discriminated, discarded and abused. But how many people think so arbitrarily about them. It is shame full.
@Rita Bohannon As long as humans keep getting older and health problems surge their banking. They would bank without cutting cost... nasty dirty greed.
First time in the medical field as a CNA in a Nursing home and I stand with you!! I've been working 16 hrs with not even a water break!!! I contracted MRSA and also have a partial rotator cuff tear
There's not enough staff to keep them safe where I work, but I treat all my residents like they're my grandparents 👍
@07:51 I totally disagree! It is not about the staff's training, for sure they know what they are doing. They are helpless too as much as they wanted to help each and every resident in the facility. They are overworked and probably underpaid too. I bet, the amount of physical and emotional exhaustion the staff carry each and every shift is massive.
Kigil TV THANK YOU. If others worked lower end jobs in healthcare they’d understand its overworking and understaffing
and its about the staff
Then dont work there. If take the job then you after to do your job... You are still getting paid...
Kigil TV Then after a terrible shift, someone calls in sick and the boss mandates the PSW work over time, another shift , making that. 16 hour shift and as well expected to be there for work the next scheduled shift. I observed this too many times.
MOM RAZ...Wow! As a
nurse 45 years ago We worked for $ 7 an hour. After 4 years of school and once licensed, the pay was @ $9 per hr.and the work load was the same. Only I poured meds AND worked the floor. Worked from the biggest hospitals like Kaiser in Calif. Attending Dr.'s wives ( legal dope addicts) to nursing homes. Nothing changes, it's ALL ABOUT those places making money.
I did work as a nurse for 20 years and because of health issues I had to quit.
Taking care of people who are in need of health care is not a business, but it is dealt with like it is a business. Stop treating it as a profitable investment. You need passion for this kind of work, but passion don't pay the bills. And if you have a Burn-Out after years in the job, who takes care of you? The right pay, with good working hours could get young people back to nursing school.
Same problem here in Germany also.
Thank you so much CBC. Doing this amusing job. My mom with dementia but we are taking care, our home. Look really sad watching videos. senior need to take care . My mom really amusing & so sweet person.
It is absolutely true the sheer amount of work that is expected in a short time. I cannot work in nursing any longer I feel part and party to the neglect and situations I was powerless to change. Breaks my heart seniors are treated this way
It brings some comfort to know my grandmother never had to experience this. She refused to go to a care home, no matter how much her kids wanted her to. Makes me proud she stood her ground.
So where did she go
@@mikayacox3035to heaven
Not in a million years I will put my parents in nursing home,,,
I will look after them love them to see around,,
They will thank you
Its so sad..this was a year ago. I presently work in a ltc home now in ON no changes have been made. Im so very sorry for your loss. Its so infuriating that this has happened. I work with a 31 residents to 1 ratio at night. 1 rn 1-2 more psws. For over 60 residents. Time for change people.. These are our most vulnerable. Profit shouldn't be an option. Its B.S.. WE NEED CHANGES..WE NEED HELP..Thankyou for trying to make change..keep up the great work.
It's all about money, low pay and greedy bosses...I worked in one for 6 years and visited lots of homes as a district nurse.... if I witnessed anything inproper or patients not treated with respect/dignity I would step in straight away, write a report, inform care home managers of my findings and follow up with further visits, that's how it should be done.....
I am a carer and have been working in a nursing home for 3 years and can say this is absolutely correct. We are severely understaffed on a regular basis, and due to that we don’t have the time to have meaningful moments with residents or even give them a proper wash. No matter how many times we speak up and say this is an issue... nothing changes as management only cares about the documentation and not about the quality time or quality care that’s given
“No one was there to help her”.... because they were somewhere else helping someone else. Families and patients should stop faulting the staff and instead complain to the department of public health, the nursing home administrator, their government representatives asking to make the nursing homes liable if they don’t want to hire more staff... it is inhumane for these patients and for the staff.
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Exactly. They have no clue what the staff go through. especially with dementia residents. Blame the higher ups who want to like their pockets
Ditto with the call bell...when you have dozens residents to care for it's easy to miss small things like that.
Sad. Blessings to the family!🙏❤️💐
When my father died 10 years ago I moved back to my hometown and childhood home to live with my mother, who is now 95. My father was able to live in his own home 'til he died and it will be the same for my mom 'til she dies. I could never put my parents in a nursing home and this is why.
People here placing blame, on the family or the PSW's, shame on you! Why don't you go volunteer there, and then you'll find out they are so understaffed it is unconscionable,. Furthermore, most families have to work, and can't be home 24/7 to take care of their loved ones, sadly. Unless you have the financial means to hire a personal PSW for your loved one, this will continue. Things need to change, or this will continue to happen
The staffs that run these nursing homes are all gready pigs they dont care about the residents and they sure as hell dont care about the cna or the nurses all we are to them are awork horses and the patients are there there to fatten there bank accounts
@@sharonsmith7236 Some are non-profit.
@@sharonsmith7236 A lot of those people don't make enough money.
Is this what the seniors did as parents when they held down jobs, and had kids to raise? I have a job i have no time to help look after my kids? i have a job i have no time to help look after the person who raised me and took care of me. and did not farm me out to be neglected.
@@shecat1964 A child is always progressing mentally and physically. An elderly person is constantly regressing so it's not the same. For sample, my two brothers and I stopped having babysitters when my older brother was 9. Granted, we lived in Alaska where things were safer overall and used a buddy system to ensure we didn't open doors for strangers and assisted one another with cooking and cleaning. We only needed round the clock looking-after for 9 years.
But a person regressing means someone needs to be there all the time and this can be as much as ten or twenty years.Two parents make things easier because one can work while the other watches the children but what if you're a single parent? You get a babysitter. Same thing here. A person who was an only child or isn't married doesn't have a second person available to have their senior mother or father living with them for constant attention. You're also going to need help with turning the dead-weight of their body over (very labor-intensive; the idea that old people are skin and bones and therefore light couldn't be further from the truth). Not only that but depending on when your parents had you, you might not be far off from needing medical assistance too. My siblings and I are all less than 20 years younger than my mom because she had all of us in her teens. You might also need help with medical issues if you don't understand fully how to administer complicated medical assistance. Plus, live-in nurses are VERY expensive, as in, you better have a very, very good job to afford one.
So, what can you do when you have someone that needs such intensive care? A nursing home can be a start but frequent visits are better (maybe not best, but better). A nursing home can at least pick up some of the slack whereas if you're working single-handedly to take care of bills, you have almost no time to care for an aging parent, not because you don't want to, but because you don't make enough to stay home as much as would be needed to look after them. No one wants to "farm" their loved one off or put them in a nursing home if they don't have to but the golden idea of having your parent live at home just isn't realistic for many. Please don't think less of people that can't meet the financial demands such a thing would require, much less the physical and mental.
I am so glad CBC was able to do a show like this, my mother was in a long term care home for 5 yrs and I saw first hand how hard the staff had to work. My mom had so many unexplained injuries and they always say she had a fall, she is no longer with us but I wish what I knew now, I would off dig deeper for exactly what happened. Thanks CBC
Did you go there daily, weekly to help with her care? to make sure she was getting the care she needed, if you knew the staff was over worked?
@@shecat1964 I went weekly, sometimes during week. I was working full time job so I was not able to go everyday.
Why didn't you let her live with you at home?
@@queensophia1064 How is she going to live at her home if she has a full time job? Many elderly people have to be monitored 24/7. They can be violent, wanderers, bed ridin, unable to get up without a lift. There are countless reasons why you.. yes YOU would not be able to care for your loved one.
You don't care about your mom. Why would u leave here in there knowing that what u saw. I had my mom at home until she got sick and she died in the hospital. My dad is in my home now he can't walk
Me and my husband take care of him.
I only have 6 rooms and 12 patients between that. I walk between 7 and 8 miles between these rooms over an 8 hour period of my shift. I ask scheduling and HR to hire people all the time.
The responsibility put on aides are great in number, time consuming, and exhausting, nurses would be fired and nursing homes would be sued without us, and yet in pennsylvania they pay $13.
I worked in care for a decade. And working in a nursing care home was horrible. There wad two care staff to 30 residents, all with nursing needs. We had ten minutes to get each resident washed, dressed and ready for breakfast. On top of that you had to answer any call bells that were going off, make sure each resident was hydrated regularly. It was too much. I hated working there as we felt like we were failing our residents, all while management didn't care about our concerns. I wrote a 7 page email to the regional anger with my concerns abiut understaffing and how the home was run. I complained about new staff not being trained enough. I was told if I didn't like it, to find a new job. And I did. These poor people don't deserve to be treated the way they are.
I am a certified Psw and had to leave the field after one year. I won't be a part of abuse and neglect. Also, most psw's recieve minimum wage.
Speak for yourself. Some CNAs take pride in their job and don’t stand for neglect.
@@brandib2821 There is more than 1 form of neglect. Where I am working now there's an outbreak of scabies spreading from patients to CNA's and NOTHING is being done for the CNA'S who caught it. Administration has not given the remedy to the CNA'S, THEY OBVIOUSLY DON'T CARE!
The patients WERE TREATED.
ONE OF MY CO-WORKERS SAYS IT'S BEEN A WEEK!
Brandi Dawn What are some?! Not as much as the ones who abuse and go against policy guidelines. The bad outweigh the good in LTC.
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I worked one place two hours and walked out. I was not going to be a part of what I saw go on in that short period of time.
I’ll take care of my parents myself, they’ll never go into a home. I wish everyone would do the same, your parents don’t deserve to be mistreated.
@T C yes you are right. many individuals are just dreamers! What if the elderly person is sick and not mobile? you have to have the facilities at home to accommodate all situations!
@T C hire help. Live within your means. That's what they did for you when you were helpless babies
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That is different. Parents can get all sort of help for childcare, from paternity leave to benefits.
Hiring an in house carer is expensive, who can afford that?
better learn the skills before u provide
not all families are able to do this.
I work at a nursing home and we do our best to take care of our residents
This is also true at my town’s hospital, I’m a food service staff there and there’s literally so many instances where we would have to page a nurse to take care of a patient, and they would be sitting there for about 30 minutes before some of them even got an answer. Thankfully we’ve installed a system for patients that need to stay in bed where if they move, a camera live streamed to our office will sound a loud alarm and nurses will NEED to come help them. But the fact that that’s what it takes to get them to move. And most of the time the nurses are just sitting at the main desk talking. My hospital has a 2.9 on yelp with all the same reviews.
I work dietary and patient dining at a hospital and it's much the same at my hospital. The main difference is it's NOT because they are sitting down. They are genuinely trying to get to patients but they struggle with the patient to nurse ratio and only one or two pca's per 30+ patient's most of which need round the clock care and have high needs.
I live in the US with parents in the medical field. My father works in Home Health and often with elderly patients, you would not believe how many times he's been given reports from the nurses who've been to these homes saying things about understaffing, lack of care, overworking and so much more. It's a tragedy honestly and sadly it's not likely to change any time soon.
We are overworked ,understaffed ,and underpayed....Were not allowed to change briefs unless they are 75% soiled....Wy should PSW'S have to deliver laundry to the rooms,collect and deliver soiled laundry,serve meals and clear dishes from tables.Housekeeping should be making the beds as well....We have to everything and the poor residents suffer...Its not right.... I'm a PSW 31 years and nothing has changed.Its getting worse..
Sophia Packman at my job we also had to set the tables ,prepare extra meal items,feed and then clear the table and load the dishwasher and wash the dishes before the dishwasher because it wasn't working well take residents to recreation and Physio and pick them up. Laundry and cleaning out even linen so we were told to use toilet paper
Oh my gosh, I'm a CNA & we had to go to laundry, see if they washed Tablecloths! Go set tables in 3 dining rms. Silverware MAYBE would be left there frm kitchen - on 11-7 shift. We had to do it, or morning shift would complain. On 3-11pm Shift, there was Smoke Break.A CNA had to be outside to do "Smoke Break" for the Pts who smoked! A half hour out of our time, my patients would be on the call light, other staff would ignore them. Rule was they had to respond if the Charge Nurse stuck me on smoke break assignment.
That was the 8 pm smoke break, when I'm supposed to be toileting & putting MY PTS TO BED! EVEN Showering, 4 the Pts who put off the shower till after dinner! I'm burnt out now. SAD! I USED TO CARE!
That's no excuse for you to treat people like that! Shame on you! ..
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Understaffed underpaid overworked is an understatement. I worked in nursing facilities for 20 years the only time we were literally overstaffed during every shift was when the state surveyors walked through the door the day the surveyors walked out the door we went right back to being understaffed and overworked. For 20 years in 4 different facilities, it was all the same story. I loved working with the elderly I loved talking to them listening to their life stories all they lived through I love the black and white photos the elderly were my passion but I was burnt out I fell out of love with my job I started not wanting to go to work I knew it was time to quite.
I am so happy to belong to a Latin American culture... We take care of our elders
I believe you.
Not true I seen it in Latin people too! I would know.... just saying.
Everything about this video breaks my heart... I used to work as a PSW for 1.5 years and this is too true. I quit because it became too demanding and many injuries. It didn't help when you need the day off but too many people have quit that no one could switch shifts
Try do this job before you judge!!!!Dear relatives...elders may be in your care AT FIRST PLACE!
Derp They have to work too. 🙄
Some of these nurses are no different from the hospitals. Don’t piss them off or they will intentionally not help you. I had no choice to be pushy to a nurse one day because they weren’t attending to my uncles needs and they intentionally did things slower.
I work in a hospital and we are understaffed too. If we have five call lights going off at the same time it's impossible to attend to everyone immediately. Family members don't seem to understand how things work in a hospital and can be very rude
One person cannot answer 7 call lights at once...not true they won’t intentionally help untrue we are genuinely busy...you have no idea unless you’re in our shoes🤦🏽♀️😢
Their favorite saying, " We don't get angry, we get even"
Welcome to socialized healthcare. It’s not like that in NC. Staffing ratios are in place. Even when met it is difficult for staff to be there as often as they would like.
I started in a nursing home. It broke my heart to see the patients like this and not having any way to help all of them. I now do home health in order to keep these people at home with their dignity. The healthcare market can do better but won't cuz of greed. More nurses are needed at these facilities and in the home health field.
Don’t you realize that we all become old and in the same situation ? Something needs to change ! Soon.
You don't have to be old 2 be in nursing home
God bless y’all! We need this in America
My grandma was in a home but me, my brother, and the rest.of my family.came whenever we could and I was always nice to her roommate and my mom gave candy to a resident. Luckily we were notified that she died at the age around late 80 years old. People deserve to be treated right! Even the Elderly!! The Elderly may be someone's mom or dad or wife!! They are not just people that can be thrown around! The Elderly can be even someones grandma or grandpa! This makes me cry and sick also mad to the people that do not see this or just don't care!!!! Treat everyone and love everyone until they are gone!!!