In the 8 months that I worked in one care home, I seen many sights that made me wonder why I did it. A quadriplegic who fell out of bed, they couldn't explain that. A resident who managed to near suffocate themselves on the bedside bumpers as the door was shut as they were being to noisy. An unexplained fracture to the arm, even though the resident did not walk anywhere or move due to the nature of their dementia A qualified nurse who did not know how to take a pulse, BP or notice the signs of a fractured femur. I could go on and on, but hasten to add, they were reported, police investigated and a few members of staff were dismissed. I felt I had to leave as it was common knowledge I was the grass and could not work in such conditions where frail elderly were treated like that, I felt I wasn't doing my job properly. It put me off doing that job for a while, even going to nursing college, glad to say now that I am doing nursing now and dreading my placement at a nursing home.