| Re: update on my nana
How right you are .. yes, Nursing homes have their good and bad points.
*Most* of the time, they successfully keep your loved one safe, relatively dry and fed well.
*Other times* the entire project goes pear-shaped and residents miss out on some care.
*Other times* inadequately trained staff don't know the *simple* things such as wiping from front to back not the other way around, or don't know about fungal infections and the smell and look.
*Other times* adequately trained staff care so much they spend too much time with residents and over-react to each and every little sniff and cough that happens and whips them off to hospital (a trauma in itself)
When you get 30+ people needing the care needed in a 24 hour period, SOMEBODY is going to miss out, because the demands put upon the carers is just too much ..... whilst your attending to Resident No. 1, Resident No. 30 has just been incontinent. On an average of 7 minutes per person in a 2 hour window (120 minutes) , Resident 30 is going to wait for 210 minutes before care can be given unless they can ring a bell and get care sooner. (Can you see the discrepancy already?? you've got 120 minutes to do 210 minutes work)
Then whilst attending to resident 30, resident 5, 10 and 15 all ring at the same time ....... and of course, then there are the daily activities .. could you please take residents 12, 17, 23 and 26 to the hairdresser/bingo/craft NOW please.
Nobody is *at fault* except the hierarchy who put unbelievable expectations on carers.
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