Nursing Home Heroes - a tribute to elder care staff

[BlindLed]

I Love your team view, and apparent  focus on knowing your duties, and caring for the individual. Thank you for sharing!

[TWENEER5]

Actually in my opinion Any country shouldn't be using nursing homes because for me it is a sign of disrespect and ungratefulness,They gave us everything we needed and not to mention everything we wanted. cant you guys let them stay in your home? I understand they would leave you in a house but hell they hire caretakers or babysitters to take care of you in their own home.they work their ass of to feed you, and what do families of the elderly in nursing homes do? escape responsibility and leave,

[dbrooks12009]

Wow

[dbrooks12009]

We are under a healthcare system that has set the stage for abuse & neglect. Medicare & Medicaid cuts, along with the greed of administration do deliberateley short staff nursing homes in order to pocket more profits. This leaves the staff with a patient load that is humanly impossible to provide excellent care for. Then frustration leads to abuse in some cases. But overall, dehydration, malnutrition, bed sores, missed assessments & med errors increase. The fall guy is the nurse.

[klownfreak87]

Awesome to all who work in a nursing home. It's a very rewarding job. I love my N. Home.

[ochomagic]

I am a nursing home adminstrator and it is not about the bottom line. It is about finding the balance where you can take what Medicare is willing to give to cover the costs and making sure that you have enough caring staff on the floor to ensure that all the residents feel loved and cared for. Hospitals will always have more staff. They receive thousands of dollars a day to give care. Nursing homes might receive 150 to 400 a day. The real problem is the re-embursement not the adminstrator

[gilnod]

@ochomagic Will having more money make you more compassionate?

Will having more money give you more empithy?

Will having more money allow you to treat people with more respect?

Will having more money make you treat people with more dignity?

Will having more money make you more caring?

If you need re-embursement to supply these "Costs", YOU are the real problem my friend.

[Akitahanyou]

Agreed, we are understaffed. Makes you comfortable about finding a more comfortable job. >.<

[GeminideLeon30]

I've had my RN clinical competency at a rest home in NZ...the HCA's and caregivers were true heroes...12-16 hours of continuous care. Someday after investing more experience from specialized areas in the hospital, I will work in rest homes and bring the best among the residents. Truly, the nature of work in rest homes is a vocation. Salute to all the rest home workers!

[tightbrook]

GOD BLESS CNA'S

[makiatia]

@tightbrook Thank you. You too.

[360deeman]

My mother has worked as a CNA for. 15 years at a very famous nursing home

[FelinityMithra]

I always feel that machines and robots should do more work and that the nurses should do more compassion. Some of these old folks have been horrible people before they got to the nursing homes and treat the nurses terribly like they did with others. Like my grandmother. I was not close to her at all because my parents knew she was abusive and a nut. Now that she is in a nursing home, she has caused misery to the staff.

[heven211]

AMEN! I worked as a CNA for 6 yrs. and you do the job because you care about the people. It's good to hear positive comments, because I think the CNAs are not appreciated. Reading the comments, I do think CNAs are underpaid..we're always told 'You are the backbone of the facility'. Well then treat us so!

[ParanormalMandy]

CNA is the most challenging work I have ever faced in my 19 years. I love my job, but there are times when you do get a little bit overwhelmed, but at the end of the day its worth every smile you make =)

[davewoodring]

It is very rough job.

[seniorlist]

Yes and even more important as boomers age...

[proddie101]

We are understaffed, underpaid and not looked after by our management, but we do this job for our residents, to hear a family member commend me on the dedication and professionalism i bring to work every night, it brings joy to my heart and a revitalisation of my spirit and soul. we do it for them, not us, i always remember that.

Male 23 yo Nursing Assistant, Australia.

[wrnelso1980]

@proddie101

I agree with you 100%. I am a CNA going back to school to be an LPN. I do my job because I love working with people. It makes my heart smile when people say thank you for doing something nice for them. I do my job because people need help. I have been doing this for 14 yrs and I won't stop just because some people say we don't make enough.

[makiatia]

@proddie101 I agree. I am a CNA too. God bless.

[KittenSoft41019]

Thank you so much for posting this. I'm a Registered Nurse in a nursing home for people with severe dementia. I know how hard it can be, especially when we only hear about the negative experiences poeple have had in homes. It makes such a lovely change to know that we're appreciated by the majority and that the majority of us give above and beyond the call of duty every day. I wouldn't swap my career for the world, but it is time to pay us fairly. (I live in England)

[futuristfood]

I HAVE WORKED in a HOME for Alzheimers... ... you must be an ANGEL!!! otherwise it wont work..

These people are angels.. what would we do without people willing to sacrifice thier time and lives for others?

[acqueous]

Nursing homes are a business. They brain wash the nurse to have compassionate care. While keeping all of the profits. The Administrator always puts the most minimal staff to run the home. We should not call them nursing homes but we should call them administrator homes. Right now the majority of nursing homes in america are working short staff underpaid in all the departments. They are managed very different than hospitals.

[wrnelso1980]

@acqueous

Many nursing homes are understaff. I do my job like I always have for 14 yrs, because I want too. To me its not all about the money, but its because the people who are in the homes worked long and hard to take care of people and its our job to take care of them. They paved the way for us to be who we are today.

[kathryn8169]

@acqueous its the same in the UK

[jellybean2423]

Hey i volunteer in a nursing home, and the way some people talk to you is completely astounding, where i am at sometiems they talk to you really awful the client and staff members, but i know not all are like that, i like a place to work where its fresh new and they are polite and treat you right and fair.

[55ella2007k]

@acqueous I completely agree - except, you have to consider, that some of the staff, on all, actually cares about these elderly people. They have very little to work with, and some of them truly try their best under these circumstances. It is very hard work, not only physically but psychologically as well. And rest assured, no caring person who works in a nursing home, would ever want to end up in one. This is NOT dying with dignity, it's quite the opposite. At least in the US.

[emmafowler76]

i was so pleased to watch this, i work in a high care nursing home in australia. i see how hard the nursing staff work, to take care of the residents. when i walk into work, i think "now what if that was my mum sitting there"... it helps me to be more sympathetic, understanding and caring.after all, we are all some of them have...

[jpeg1965]

Excellent...it is no doubt that C.N.A.'s are the hardest working and most important people in the building. I really believe that you all deserve ten times the money you make. Not everyone can do what you do, hold your heads high.

[yankeegurl62]

Thank you for this wonderful video. You have no idea how nice it is to hear something positive about cna and nursing home. It has to be a calling, I love my job.

[CharElio]

Great to see this positive image of LTC nursing staff. Few profesionals and consumers understand and appreciate that this is a complex specialty that requires expert care from the heart and head.

[aaltcn]

It's great to see this positive portrayal of LTC nursing. These unsung heroes do important work that requires complex clinical expertise and a caring heart. It's about time the word gets out!