this is why mom won't see a nursing home

[loumeinhart 0]

*new post* couldn't find previous posts on nursing home abuse.

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/5029631/detail.html

[BillyVance 35]

That really sucks. I hate nursing homes. It's so hard to find a good one. The one my grandmother was in was especially depressing. Although her husband died more than 20 years prior, she kept her wedding ring on. My dad tried to get her to take it off so he could keep it in a safe place but she refused. Well one day it turned up missing. Sure as hell one of the staffers slipped it off when she was sleeping or something.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[loumeinhart 0]

I played piano in nursing homes when I was a kid (summer $$ ) and it was SO depressing - I guess it's reality though. When I start to fail you can take me out to the woods

[skymedic 0]

In my experience even the good nursing homes are crap...BUT...there are huge problems the staff face there. they get paid like crap, get spit on and treated like crap by a ton of people from patients on up to administration. one nurse will typicaly have between 15 to 20 patients with a few CNA's beneath them...but the CNA's could care less about anything as they are only getting paid 10 bucks an hour if that.

when you pay low it tends to attract the bottom of the barrel that couldn't get hired at a higher paying hospital job...and then it is a slow slide as quality of care is impacted. it's sad...just sad.

Marc
otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman....

[Amanda965 0]

I am the administrator of a nursing home and it really makes me sad to see stories like that. I know that they are out there, but that is why I work to educate consumers on the information and data that is out there to assist in finding a good home.

www.medicare.gov has a "Nursing Home Compare" section where you can go on and look at the annual survey results (an inspection done by the state and federal health department annually at each facility) and data regarding the care at the facility.

There ARE bad places out there, but they are not all that way. Look up Friendship Village of Columbus in Columbus, Ohio and you will see that I run my facility completely differently.

Look at this link: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/sex/61260 Do you think this helps the NH rep? No, but that is what I have to fend against... AWFUL *** This is a fake story, please realize that!***

Blue skies and SAFE landings!
~Amanda~

[kc10boom 0]

Those 2 chicks should recieve massive amounts of enema punishment... Just an idea...Boom...Out

NKAWTG...N

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Look at this link: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/sex/61260 Do you think this helps the NH rep? No, but that is what I have to fend against... AWFUL *** This is a fake story, please realize that!***

The fake story:

18 NURSES PREGNANT AFTER REST HOME VIAGRA PARTY


By NED NEWMAN

A rest home has been forced to close and the owners are expecting to get their brains sued out after 18 nurses, aides, assistants and orderlies got pregnant following a "Viagra party" for the facility's elderly patients!

"It was supposed to be a morale booster -- and now we're out of business," says Mary Stinson, a receptionist who lost her job when the owners of Merry Rest Retirement Home, in Los Angeles, announced they were shutting down under pressure from the State of California.

"I told them they were crazy to give those old goats all those pills, but did they listen to me? No!"

The party that was held in mid-August lasted as long as the erection drug held out, which, according to sources, was about four hours.

Although there were plenty of elderly women the old guys could have lured into the sack, they went instead for curvy young nurses and aides, many of whom, it is reported, were drunk.

A spokesman for Merry Rest confirmed in a prepared statement that 18 employees are now pregnant and that DNA testing to match them with the fathers is now under way.

LMAO ... too bad that's fake ... well for the gents [not] involved anyway .. they would have went from this to this

You can have it good, fast, or cheap: pick two.

[skybrat68 0]

I truely hate to see reports like that. I'm a new nursing student in Central Florida and my first 3 clinical days are at a nursing home. I've had both good and bad experiences at a nursing home.

The first time I tried nursing school, the nursing home rotation was miserable for me. I just did my first clinical rotation last Tuesday in a nursing home that is nicer than my own home. Matter of fact, I refer to it as a "resort". It doesn't smell, they don't use restraints and their patients are treated with dignity and respect.

I wonder if the reason nursing homes exhibit such a slack in what may be considered respectibility or an acceptible standard of living is that there is no requirement that a nursing home be certified by the same accredidation associations as the hospitals have to be to continue to recieve medicare and so forth? The nursing home I'm lucky enough to get to visit for three weeks is accredidated and after seeing the living conditions with my own eyes, I would recommend checking for such credentials before making any decisions. The vast majority are a depressing, smelly, pit stop between here and there.