I spend my life investigating bruises. I have almost nothing to do with anything except making all of our care plans and investigations State-proof.
The CNAs who are good are great. The ones who don't care are infuriating. When I go to write someone up I'm told not to because we can't replace them. We also have nurses who are just warm bodies with RN licenses. LPNs need to be decent -- we can find them. RNs here, not so much.
The families are in-freaking-sane. Why isn't your dad walking? Seriously? What part of end-stage Alzheimer's do you not understand?
We are owned by a corporation and my DON is always terrified that she's going to lose her job and she reacts rather than acts. She is not supportive. She cares, but she's too fired and nervous to be any help.
Someone tell me there's a reason I do this. And "for the residents" doesn't really work. I don't do anything for the residents. I do freaking paperwork.
