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Staffing levels are used to calculate the star rating of a nursing home. States have required staffing ratios, for both nurses and CNA. What I recommend is to
by lunchables 8y ago
Staffing levels are used to calculate the star rating of a nursing home. States have required staffing ratios, for both nurses and CNA.
What I recommend is to look up the facility star rating and the last couple yearly AHCA survey results for the nursing home. You can also check to see if they have had any complaint surveys recently and what the outcomes of those were.
>Nurses are overworked in these places, and the owners of nursing homes make money only by hiring not enough nurses.
As above, there are staffing level requirements.
>I know of a nurse, who used to not take readings, but filled them out based on yesterday readings. This, because she had so much work to do on her own.
She could lose her license for this, and blaming someone else won't save it. Nurses are in incredibly high demand and she should go work somewhere else. Let me know if she needs a job and what state she's located in (and what license? RN, LPN?). We hire hundreds of nurses per year.
- raincom 8y agoShe is a RN in California , she learned it from another RN who worked with her. This was from 4 years ago. Since she could not find a job at hospitals, she took this job. Nurses don't like working at nursing homes: pay sucks; work is hard. She told me to not tell anyone about this, as she will lose her license--names and exact locations withheld. Anyway, she found a better job at a prison, with better pay, benefits, etc.
- pc86 8y agoThe fact that another RN taught her how to commit a terrible crime against the people entrusted to her care doesn't change the fact that that's what it is. Hopefully she takes better care of the prisoners.