Nursing Aide sexually abuses and preys on stroke victims at nursing home

Update:
http://www2.tricities.com/tri/news/l...forward/31472/


Regarding the matter as to why the charge nurse or nurses and other nursing supervisors and even DON did not take action, have only one thing to say.

Not wishing to cause offence and will begin by saying there are many, many, many dedicated and great nurses, NAs and other nursing staff working in nursing homes, LTR and other such facilities, however it is often the case such places attract nurses and nursing support staff that either cannot find work elsewhere in the profession, and or want the sort of "9-5" nursing position where they can clock out on time. Filing reports involves time and will involve one in hours of paperwork, meetings and perhaps even put one's own license at risk (failing to properly supervise/monitor support staff for instance), so it is easier for such persons to avoid "trying to hear" about matters they do not wish to know about.


For some a nursing home as been a repository for nurses who simply cannot cope with the fast paced setting of hospital nursing. Maybe they made too many medical errors (hopefully mostly of omission), or critical thinking skills are lacking or need development.

As for physical, mental and sexual abuse of nursing home/LTR patients, it sadly goes on more than one thinks, and the few media reports are also sadly the tip of an iceberg. Not known to be a great paying position for even the best hospitals, nursing homes often find themselves chronically sort of nursing support staff. This can lead to taking any "warm body" long as they meet standards on paper. Indeed know of several nursing homes/rehabilitation centres locally that one would NEVER send any members of one's family to because of information obtained via the "nursing underground network". Female patients in a coma have been not only criminally violated in the most personal way, but in one or two cases (that I know of), became pregnant.

The other poster's message about visiting family members in droves and at different times is right on the money. We do the same in our family and as a person with some nursing background am always looking around with a keen eye when I go to visit.

It is just like one's own children. You "know" a family member and can tell when something isn't "right". If they suddenly start behaving oddly around certain persons, and or not only seem relived upon family arriving for a visit, but seem apprehensive as they begin to leave, something is wrong and needs to be investigated.

The nurse managers who refused to do anything when the abuse was reported should lose their licenses permanently and face criminal charges. Their actions are heinous and they have lost the privilege to call themselves nurses.

Okay....

You walk into a room, and find an aide masturbating while fondling a patient.....

Next thing you would have heard is "Um, Nerd, why are you beating him over the head with the IV pole...?"

I imagine there's a lot of shock in a situation like that, as well as fear. You're going to have a NORMAL second of "crap, if he's doing that, what wouldn't he do?" But at that point, if I had seen the actual abuse, I would have been on the phone to my director saying, "okay, this is what I saw, are you going to call the cops or am I, because one of us will be doing so" -- and I'd also know that I'd end up losing my job, because no good deed goes unpunished, unfortunately. I saw too much of that in the corporate world....you do the right thing, it causes "trouble" and the trouble is associated with the reporter, not the person doing the bad stuff.

disgusting and horrid

Disgusting

What I can't understand is CNAs are a dime a dozen... they are easy and cheap to replace. So why did the company go to such lengths to protect him? Not that his job title should give him license to rape and molest patients... but honestly I can see most companies covering up that behavior from a higher level employee, not an aide.

This is so awful! I can't even think of a punishment bad enough to make him pay for what he has done. It makes me want to cry that someone is that sick and twisted.

OMG!...i'm speehless. my heart goes out to the helpless victims. this is insane but common in some LTCF. where i live there was a nurse who had sex with female residents and the staff new about it and done NOTHING. the guy was a night nurse and would go into their room and rape them. this place is appauling a total hell hole and allowed to stay open. there was little news coverage about it but not as much as it should've been. i think the owners settled with the families w/o going to court.

Like I said, media reports of sexual and or physical abuse occuring in nursing homes and LTCF tell only a fraction of occurances, and a small percentage at that. What is not reported or seen cannot be counted.

It isn't just nursing assistants and or other employees abusing patients either; there is a growing problem of male patients unable to keep their hands and or tackle to themselves.

With more and more elderly persons choosing home care, nursing homes have looked to other sources for revenue/to fill beds and one nice steady source has been the housing of psyc patients. Medicare has loose restrictions on the matter and it pretty much comes down to rules stating that no more than one-third of the total patient census can be made up of psyc patients.

Elderly and or disabled persons in nursing homes have been physically and sexually abused by psyc patients, up to and including some that have been beaten nearly to a pulp. Many homes claim they separate psyc patients from the others, but not all and not always and aside from locked wards it can be rarely foolproof.

Many elderly residents of nursing homes with psyc patients tell of being totally in fear.

The most saddest thing to my mind is an elderly or frail person stuck alone with little or no caring family paying frequent and routine visits in a nursing home. And I am here to tell you if one has to scrub toilets in public restrooms or whore myself on the street, NO member of my family is ever going into a "home" if I can help it.

This was truly disgusting.....but you have to ask yourselves-"Is he the only one", I think not. There are millions of patients and workers who are SUPPOSED to take care of them, how many more are out there...hmmmmm.