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Gooombay t1_ixiklcc wrote

I love this idea. I work in long term care in the US at a veterans home. We don't offer cnas enough money for this difficult job (I am an RN). We currently can't admit more residents due to low staffing. I wish they would pay our caretakers more so that more people would join our team. Then we could consider something like this.

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Dapaaads t1_ixiv698 wrote

These companies rake in money at the top. I know Families that own several, they are all stupid rich

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Nerdinlaw t1_ixm56to wrote

I agree. I work MDS at a SNF/LTC. Our rehab floor has 30 patients staffed with 2 nurses and 3 aids on days and pms, 2 aids at night. A lot of these residents need help transferring to the toilet, they are in pain and it takes a long time for them to transfer.

I always assess every patient before I do my MDS, and every single one always says how short staffed we are. That they wait too long for their call light to be answered. I suggested to our administrator that we need to staff 1 more CNA, that the patients are even complaining. Some finance guy in corporate that’s never taken care of a patient ever, said no.

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