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Re: 'Care' Home
by sbrown
The thought of that poor women bleeding and nobody helping her is heart wrending. Makes you dispair about humanity. My mom used to work as a CNA (certified nursing assistant) at an convelescent hospital in the San Jose, California. There was way too little staff, too much to do, dangerous tasks for employees to perform (like being expected to lift, or dress, or help severly overweight people get out of bed, get dressed, or get showered--a 1:1 ratio that didn't work in most of the workers' favor). The pay work conditions were so horrible that the turn over was high and most of the employees were working 2+ jobs on the side to make their financial ends meet. My mother finally quit when she was severly injured by a male patient. A nurse, a real gem, was taunting one of the patients. She wouldn't stop and the patient became so enraged he charged after her, fists flying. Unfortunately one of his blows threw my poor mother into the wall, and she loss consciousness, slumping to the floor. Did she get any medical attention by the nursing staff? Oh no. They waited for her to come round and then let her drive home. We were furious. She was in no condition to be behind the wheel of a car--she could have harmed herself or some other poor soul if she had had another blackout. She should have been sent to the hospital for a medical exam.
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