You are correct about the "sane patients" in the local hospital. The increasingly difficult position CNAs are put in will make it that much more difficult to provide proper and heartfelt care to clients. Nurses should know and acknowledge the effects...
Extreme overgeneralization...that's like saying if you can't handle pre-schoolers, you can't teach high-school. Or, like saying if you can't spell "you", then u can't be respected as a professional.
nursel56 - there is a difference between Nursing and Medical. The bulk of the comment is nursing. Everything stated in the comment can be seconded by a cursory search of reputable sources.
LTC in the United States will come crashing down in the near future. It is a Tower of Babylon that can not endure. We will see how many RNs who "just love" LTC will find that they are "not cut out for it" 24 hour care for the oncoming onslaught of im...