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i am eighteen years old and i am going to college for my RN degree,i know that it is stressful for nurses to do there job but its our job to care for the ones that cant take care of them self. patients are there because they need our help. so help them. have a heart, what if you were one of your patients and you were being treated like that. sitting in your own pee or staying hungry. i am going to say thank you for that women how bought this out. my mom always told me "two wrongs never make a right" so if you see some one treating there patients like that say something or go to someone that can do something. and if they wont do anything go higher up. a women told me that you have the concern for the one you are caring for and if you don't your in the wrong field and i strongly believe in that. nurses are here to help and to keep the patient feeling comfortable and relaxed to there family can see and spend time with them its not our job to speed up the proses of death god will take them when its time.

THAT PLACE IS NOT THE ONLY PLACE, UNFORTUNATLY IT HAPPENS EVERYWHERE, ALOT OF PLACES I HAVE WORKED,THAT WHY HOSPICES IS SOOOOOO NEEDED.

Being a past Director of nursing in two long term care facilties, I am just appalled at the condition these people were in. Yes a degree of neglect happens in every faciltiy....that is why I got out of long term care. I could not stand to see residents not being cared for the way they should be. It was an upper management problem....MONEY!!!!! Its all about greed...but yet as the article stated"They knew about the problem and apologized""" What in the sam hell good does that do
The PAIN and SUFFERING of these elderly people who deserve so much more...for you greedy dollars...and the boards that investigate are just as guilty. I have turned things in knowing of the abuse and neglect and I get responds as NO FINDINGS. Someone needs to take control of these nursing homes.. I know the goverment is behind in payments and they put part of the blame on this...but the goverment should withhold every dime if you are giving substandard care.
More law suits need to be filed by these family members before things will change. The residents that were living this way should sue the pants off this faciltiy and start living in a upper class residential home with every thing paid in full ...Things won't change until a large group demands it...so people write your senators, legislatures,,,,etc....it may take a little of you time but time is nothing compared to what these people go through. It is happening in your own backyard all you have to do is go look at the neighborhood nursing facility...tell me if I'm wrong...

I would just like to say that I commend this nurse for her courage to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. As a nursing student, we have been taught and are continuously reminded that nurses are the patients advocate, it is our duty to speak for them, as well as to provide comprehensive / compassionate care. The Bible is very clear that we reap what we sow and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. My personal take on this is that I care for my patients the way I would want my parents or other family members or even myself to be care for. It breaks my heart and makes me angry at the same time that human beings can treat one another this way and act as though it's no big deal. I certainly do not want to stand before an Almighty God and be judged for such actions. Remeber, it may not be payday today for our deeds but it will be payday someday!

Why is it that a head nurse can only take the time to give the resident supplements when she notices a meal not being touched? Is it beneath them to have human compassion and join-in, pick up a spoon and give them food? Wake up you pompus ass.

I have seen a lot of the horrors of nursing home abuse. When i tell my supervisor about what i have witnessed, she says thank you i appreciate that you care, but little is ever done. Sometimes i wonder if why they call it health care, when patients are being treated like prisoners with no rights. Often times i am angered that there is so much talk about the good that nurses bring to the world, but at the very same time there is even more that is absolutely horrible and its all done behind closed doors. I have had to leave facility's not because i didn't like my job, but because it made me sick that the patients i take care of are getting horrible treatment and nothing is being done.

No institution is exempt from some of these situations. May be not so drastically but feeding and changing is typically a problem. Sometimes the Aids do not have the patience to feed the clients. As a Nurse I tried to take some time to notice patients' trays and the percentage charted by certain Aids at my facility and offered my patients supplements when the trays seem hardly touched.