mayagoose

As I sit here at this moment, the death and dying issue now applies to a Director of Nursing who greatly influenced my life. She had a double mastectomy followed by chemo. She was told she was cleared of cancer. Recently, she was told that it had metastasized to her lungs and liver. She never smoked cigarettes. While I know that has nothing to do with metastasis I am so deeply saddened at this moment that I do not know what to do with myself. She started out with this certain facility way back when and took it from a dungeon to what I believe is the finest of nursing homes in the state. She is the backbone - the heartbeat if you will of it all. Sometimes one does not know if they are saying the right thing or doing the right thing. All I know is her time on Earth appears to be limited from the way she spoke to me today and my sadness overcomes me.

my superpower would be to levitate people. this would alleviate the falls that occur because there are rules that we can not protect them from this because it is their right to fall . perhaps, there are no apparent injuries, perhaps they split their heads open or maybe break a bone or two. "Didn't you hear the personal alarm sound?" by the time that goes off, unless your close enough, chances are good they're on the floor. and so it is wrong to put a table over someone unless they are eating/drinking. Just an example. Gone are the days we could protect people. I need to know who makes these rules up.

I am curious to know if the powers that be that make the laws/policies that have taken time from caring for the patient and think it should be more spent on paperwork ie..lengthy incident reports, have ever actually performed the job or if they merely set the rules. Also, in my 20 years of working in various settings, I have seen the staffing to care for those who need us, pretty much cut in half. This can be very frustrating to have people need you and literally we can not be everywhere at once. I realize it has alot to do with money, but this bothers me.