Cna Resident Abuse

Workplace Assaults on Nursing Assistants in US Nursing Homes: A Multilevel Analysis

The main subject on which the entire article focused on was the factor of injuries and assaults to nursing assistants from the nursing home residents. They took two national surveys from 2004 and studied the results very carefully. They eventually took their results from both of the surveys and combined them together to get a better idea of how many assaults and/or injuries were taken place in the facilities. Granted, some nursing assistants could not recall if they were every assaulted or injured because in the two national surveys, National Nursing Assistant Survey (NNAS) and National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS), it stated to name the incidents from the last twelve months. In that long period of time you really aren’t going to get the best results only because a lot of the time most of the nursing assistants don't remember if the incident happened in the last twelve months or if it was a longer period of time since it happened.
The main reason that the authors deiced to do this research was that there were not a lot of research done with this particular subject. So, instead of doing an article about something that a million other people have already done, they choose to pick something that was never fully researched. They intended that the nursing staff reading this would hopefully talk to their management team so they could properly train somebody on how to either handle aggressive residents or make sure that certain people don’t have the deal with the aggressive ones; whether or not the staff actually did this is unknown because the article never stated if they did or not.
One of the main points that the authors talked about was that in a matter of years there will be a huge increase in the amount of nursing homes throughout the United States. Why would such a thing happen, might you ask? The baby boomers of course. With the age group getting older and older, the demand for nursing assistants is going to increase severely. It's estimated that the amount of nursing homes will be doubled by the year 2060.
Another point that occurred a lot was that if the nursing staff would not have such an overflow of residents, there would be a lot less incidents. The nursing assistants feel rushed because they are so under staffed and have a lot of work that must be done in a certain amount of time. Hence, why they get hurt. Honesty, if you were a resident, and they were rushing you to change your clothes, or take a shower, wouldn't you get a little bit angry? What's a simple way to get around this? Maybe the facility should change a few rules, increase wages, or hire more people because the turnover of the employees is slightly ridiculous.
Nursing assistants who have gotten injured or assaulted most of the time worked with the dementia patients. When you really think about it, it actually makes sense. That resident most of time is unsure of where they are, and they don’t even know who you are or where they are. To that certain resident, it's a complete stranger helping with daily activities. Most of the incidents that happen seemed to be human bites. Evidence speaking, it makes sense as to how the nursing assistant would get bitten. They are usually changing that resident, or cleaning them. So technically they are in range of their teeth most of the time they are assisting that person. If that resident has no idea who they are, or are very scared and/or embarrassed you might expect them to do whatever it takes to protect themselves in their state mind.
After reading this entire article, I really didn't see any words that I did not know of. I kind of wish there was, just to give me a bigger excuse to use a big word right about now.
This article relates to what we have learned in class because we have talked about how some patients have dementia and can become violent if treated the wrong way, or has the wrong words said to them. It also gives you a heads up on the fact that being a nursing assistant takes a lot of knowledge along with stress.