TALES FROM THE NURSING HOME

Tonight will be another night that I don't get a bath because they are short staffed. Even though most residents are asleep at this hour, the CNA's don't take the time to give those who are awake a bed bath like they are supposed to. Then the day shift comes in and has to do more work because they have to get residents up and taken to the dinning room and give baths to those that didn't get one, bring back those in the dinning room, make beds, and straighten rooms. All because night shift doesn't want to do their job. Here, the night shift sits in the dayroom watching tv and gossiping. We've got three good CNA's, two at night and one during the day. The others make you wonder how they became Certified in the first place. They don't know how to make a bed with someone in it, how to take a blood pressure, how to open a bedside drain bag to empty it. I'm glad I'm one of the few that know whats going on and can speak up for myself.

We even have one nurse that is going blind and they put her on wound care. She came to change the dressing on my wounds and had to ask me, when she was finished, if there were any dressings left on the table. The table is brown and the dressings are white. It should have been obvious that there were none left on the table. But that's the was it goes around here.

ILLEGAL ALIENS

There is a story in the New York Times about how Dallas, TX has become the first city to create an ordinance that will force landlords to rent only to "Legals," and to verify that they are legal before they rent to anyone. Maybe if more cities do such things it will finally force Congress and the Federal gov't to do something about the immigration problem

MISSING OIL

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/world/middleeast/12oil.html

After all the work and soldiers that are over in Iraq, someone has smuggled billions of dollars of oil out of the country. Oil that Iraq was going to use to pay back the US for freeing them from Saddam's regime. But it wouldn 't be the first country to stiff the US. France has yet to fully pay back the US for helping them get their independance or for saving them in WW I or WW II. Japan hasn't fully paid us for the first Gulf War, because they are so dependent on the oil from the middle east. Just another country owning us money,

NURSING HOMES

Well, I don't know if anyone got to read what I posted yesterday, but one of the things about this nursing home that doesn't make much since is that they would rather pay for clothes that are lost in laundry than to do something to NOT lose them in the first place. This place spends alot of money each month just to replace lost clothing.