(December 1, 2016 at 3:10 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(December 1, 2016 at 1:42 pm)abaris Wrote: Just wait till you or one of your relatives end up on the receiving end. It's not that common that I agree with Brian, but I have worked the emergency services for 5 years. A job that took us to nursing homes quite often. It's but one of the reasons why I didn't want my mom to end up there. Her last days at the hospital weren't much better either. She got an MRSA, which ultimately cost her life.
Truth is, and I have to say this, you're talking out of your ass right now. Staff in any of these facilities is overworked and underpaid. It's on the ass end of desirable jobs. People tend to look away when any of this is mentioned. It doesn't concern them, long as they're healthy. And if they no longer are, they've got no lobby.
I've been on the receiving end. Both parents, terminal cancer, first in home care, then NH, then NH hospice. I also was a nursing home consultant for up to 12 homes/yr in the 1980's for 5 years, in the homes every week day and often on weekends and holidays. I've been a part of state audits, patients care review, incident review, geriatric medical rounds, P&T committees, the strangest may have been the impaction team .... I think that my ass knows more than your ass.
You see all types that work in the homes, caring and not, earning their pay and not, overworked and minimal working. And your right, they are not the most desirable jobs. But there are undesirable jobs across all of working world. Just because they are not desirable and low wage does that mean they don't need to earn their pay?
Then you are blind and delusional
