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Sensate60 t1_j6nw0gw wrote

Sounds like some health care people working in these places do this on purpose to the elderly who they don't like? This can't be an accident if it happens this many times.

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ostensiblyzero t1_j6oikns wrote

Nah she was cleaning something and left the room to go handle a disruption in the dining room. The older guy then went over and drank it. I work at a skilled nursing facility and I bet you that they are regularly short staffed, including housekeeping (which is why she was having to clean up something herself in the first place). CNAs and LVNs are incredibly overworked and on a tight-rope between the company's metrics and their nursing licenses. It is easy to blame an individual nurse or nurse assistant rather than say hey, maybe we should hire more people so we aren't constantly taking care of twice the amount of poeple that is legally safe. Regularly, the state will come in and inspect the facility... but somehow our administration always knows about it in advance, and rushes to put out the ppe we've been asking for for the last 6 months, hires nurses off registry so we aren't short staffed, and the second the inspectors are gone it's back to normal.

Point is, it doesn't seem like this was intentional at all, but rather an overworked nurse who is about to get reamed by the state because her company treats her like garbage.

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Relevant_Quantity_49 t1_j6oxnrh wrote

>...somehow our administration always knows about it in advance...

Regulators need to stop announcing their visits. I used to work for a facility (non-healthcare) that always knew when the Fire Marshal or Health Inspector was coming. Managers would have us rushing around to correct the deficits, like flammables in the electrical room or rat feces in the consumables, that were considered totally fine the other 364 days per year.

If you want to know what places are really like, show up unannounced and get a tour from either the lowest ranking employee or the one that appears the most pissed off.

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mokutou t1_j6olg8k wrote

This is all truth.

Source: Was CNA in a SNF.

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