Insight Nursing Home

Nakita Lee Insight At The Nursing Home

As being an employee at a Nursing home facility I see hear and feel so much. The Nursing home is used for Rehab, Long Term Care and a Memory Care Unit which in some cases is called the lock down unit. There are definitely not enough nursing assistant/ nurse ratio to a resident, which means
On the first shift you are bathing and dressing all of your residents and feeding them two meals with snacks in between. Restorative care is a form of therapy. The therapy department is where most of the financial stability for the home comes from. So even if the floor is short the restorative assistant will not be pulled because it a “Money Thing”. Second shift three to eleven requires five assistants. On the second shift you have one meal partial bathe and prepare for bed time. Third shift eleven to seven requires three aides. On the third shift you check the residents periodically for safety and round checks. A lot of times these shifts have a shortage daily per shift. The assistants have no less than ten residents. If there are shortage of staff on the third shift then there could be thirty residents to one aide. The recommendation is one nursing assistant to three residents during a meal and one to six during non-meal times. Ninety percent of US nursing homes have staff levels too low for adequate care. Statistics on abuse and neglect are not so shocking when you realize that ninety percent of nursing homes do not have the staff levels available to care for their patients
Plenty of nursing home patients receive good care and live happy, healthy lives in the care of facilities, but others are subjected to abuse and neglect. More than thirty percent of all nursing homes experience some form of resident abuse. Nearly one third of all nursing homes have residents that are subject to some form of abuse, whether it’s by staff or other residents. These include malnutrition, physical abuse, psychological distress, exploitation, neglect, and sexual abuse. Statistics show ninety two percent of America’s nursing homes were cited by health inspectors for at least one deficiency. Ninety percent of abusers are known. Nearly all of the time, those who abuse nursing home residents are not strangers. That means staff members, residents, or familiar visitors are almost always to blame for nursing home abuse. Five thousand deaths may be due to negligence. Red flags for nursing home negligence were listed on five thousand death certificates of nursing home patients in nineteen ninety nine. These include starvation, dehydration, or bedsores as the cause of death. Thirty incidents of aggression can happen in one eight hour