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BluenotesBb t1_je24ohm wrote

Gabby, thank you for putting this out there , elder care was a mess 20 yrs ago when I was a recreational therapist for a LTC facility, and I'm facing placing my dad in short term rehab this week, and it scares me. I am going back and forth from Yale New Haven and let me tell you, the care THERE is bordering horrendous.

The hospital is filthy, the 3 ppl in his room are not getting the care they deserve, in fact, it's bordering neglect and that's at Yale. No washing up, barely any pain control, they will not help him eat despite the broken arm, call bells are placed where he can't reach it, urine placed next to his food, same dirty foot print on the floor for 3 days ....I really could go on.

I expect less from the rehab and that's terrifying.

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buried_lede t1_je3tkju wrote

Yale’s patient relations Dept has gone way down hill too. It’s nothing more than bare risk management at this point.

Also, some of the floors seem to be big on cycling through new, recently graduated nurses with few more mid career or senior nurses floating around and that just doesn’t work, they aren’t up for it when they are that thin on mentors present for at least most of the time. Other depts though this is not the case. I don’t know how they prioritize it

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murphymc t1_je4im8h wrote

There's a certain amount of "blood from a stone" going on with nurses that people don't seem to realize.

There weren't enough of us in 2019, and a huge chunk of us either left the profession or fucking died in the past 3 years and combined with the normal attrition rate now there's nowhere near enough of us, and you can't just train up a new nurse in a couple months, and a competent one takes years.

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

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