Peri care vent

[JDZ344]

OMG I am so sick of going into work and finding out that all my incontient patients smell of urine or poop because people don't wash them when they change the briefs/sheets. Does it really take so long to grab the wipes and clean the urine off the skin?

[Upgrading_Status, BSN, MSN, RN, NP]

I've noticed the aides at my job are as someone above stated "slick" as hell. If I wasn't in the room at the time I wouldn't have believed it. An aide came in and asked if the patient in the "A" bed was cleaned. I said I'm not sure as the patient isn't mine. For the aide to go over and check, the aide said well the patient has to be clean since the bed linen is nicely done. The aide was about to walk out when I told them to check the patient. SERIOUSLY? You needed someone to tell you to properly check your patient. The very same aides are the ones who complain that nurses don't do anything but sit at the nurses station and take long breaks. I've seen aides come in at midnight and demand a break by one. SERIOUSLY!

[interceptinglight, CNA]

Someone tell me how in the h*ll these facilities continue to operate when they don't peri-care people? How do they survive State inspections? In Idaho, investigators follow the aides and nurses around with clipboards and watch every move. They ask random questions of the aides to see if they are following procedure. They look at thermostats to see if the temperature in every room is right. They look at the statistics about the incidence of falls and bed sores. Everything they observe is reported and becomes public knowledge. They always hold it over our heads how they could shut us down in a heartbeat if any one of us flubs up. Some of the horrific conditions I hear about on this forum -- I don't understand how they can even exist !!?

[*4!#6]

Pericare? What's that? Including myself probably only 3/10 CNA's on my unit seem to understand what pericare is

[yousoldtheworld]

Someone tell me how in the h*ll these facilities continue to operate when they don't peri-care people? How do they survive State inspections? In Idaho, investigators follow the aides and nurses around with clipboards and watch every move. They ask random questions of the aides to see if they are following procedure. They look at thermostats to see if the temperature in every room is right. They look at the statistics about the incidence of falls and bed sores. Everything they observe is reported and becomes public knowledge. They always hold it over our heads how they could shut us down in a heartbeat if any one of us flubs up. Some of the horrific conditions I hear about on this forum -- I don't understand how they can even exist !!?

They do that everywhere. These aides know HOW to do these things, and they do when someone is watching. But on a normal day, there's no state inspector hovering over their shoulders. Ugh. People are so freakin' lazy.

[PhoenixTech, LPN]

At my facility, they only go to certain floors. I don't know how that works but if the state were to come in and visit each floor at the same time....... The times that I've been there during a visit, I'd come out of a pt's room and the nurse will be standing there telling me to straighten up because the state is 'here'. Each and everytime I just glance at the extra activity going on and continue on with my pt's. There's no way to 'clean up' and clean pts as well.