Nursing Home and Elder Abuse: Re: The Nightmare of Corporate "Care" in the Nursing Home "Indus

» proactive - Re: The Nightmare of Corporate "Care" in the Nursing Home "Indus

In response to message posted by CnaWatch:

I am a resident in a skilled nursing facility and I must say we have some fine nurses. However, we have a couple of overbearing, abusive, bullies who repeatedly verbally abuse residents and have all kinds of methods to irritate and aggravage them, such as making patients who complain wait until last for their medication, making loud verbal insults in the hearing of residents they don't like, etc. Residents have made complaint after complaint after complaint about these nurses but nothing ever is accomplished, in one case I heard one of these nurses abusing the Director of Nurses, telling her "you can't fire me, the administrator won't let you". We also have a fairly high incidence of theft, although through much complaining and threats of publicity this has been reduced. It is my beleif that there is a very high incidence of drug abuse among some employees, to the point that I suspect some residents are not getting their full dosage of controlled substances, and I am told this is very common in nursing homes everywhere. Making a complaint to Human Resources in this state is a joke, they just ask the administration if the charges are true and of course they deny them and that is the end of the matter. I do not beleive the public really wants to know the true state of affairs in nursing homes; they just dump unwanted relatives and prefer not to be bothered. The effort to clean up the nursing home mess would be almost unimiginable.

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