Ok I'm curious. After reading many threads on here and talking to aides and nurses who have been doing this for many many years I'm wondering something.
As far as patients and their family members go, have they really changed over the years? I don't mean diagnosis wise, I mean their mannerisms. Are they really that much ruder, that much more demanding then they were in the past? It seems lately that on my unit, we have patients who are perfectly capable of doing things themselves and yet they expect you to pick something up if they drop it or expect you to make 10 trips to the kitchen for this, that and the other.
So I ask all you that have been doing this for a while....have people really changed?