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response to the nursing issue. We started with 24hr nursing. The
midnight shift nurse, Dave would show up for his shift with his guitar,
radio, and reading book and would do absolutely NOTHING. After NUMEROUS
ID/ISSUE complaints, it took him ACTUALLY trying to bite the finger of a
member that he was having a dispute with to get him fired. His position
was never replaced. But we were STILL paying for a midnight shift
nurse. That left us with 2 nurses. The day shift nurse, after MANY
complaints, was transferred to another unit and replaced with an
OUTSTANDING Nurse. Unfortunately, she has been gone on medical leave and
we don't know when/if she will return. That left us with 1 permanent
nurse we all call IT'S NOT MY JOB KATHY. Good luck getting ANYTHING but
emergency help out of her. So, on Kathys days off: regular, and the many
extra days off she takes at the last minute, the nursing supervisor has
to run around just to get us SOME coverage during that day shift. And
again, we're paying for PROPER nursing coverage. I will say that the
nursing supervisor from what I've seen, does her best with what she's
got, but doesn't have a reliable staff. But STILL, we are getting
charged $2100.00 a month for sometimes non existent nursing care.
Basically, we can never count on having a nurse on duty at any
particular time. It's a crap shoot. We are not allowed to go to the
pharmacy anymore, and are supposed to get our meds at the Rankin 3
nurses station at 1700hrs to pick them up yet, on several occasions
we've gone to pick them up but the lights are off and no ones home,
there are on days when we were supposed to have a nurse on duty from
1000hrs-1830hrs. So we are paying part of that $2100.00 for non existant
nursing care when, if the state put that money towards helping us move
into cheaper housing, we would have all the proper nursing care we need
for less money, and saving the tax payers more money
If it is a breach of contract, no one knows, because the veterans are NOT given a copy of the contract they sign, when they apply for acceptance to the home.
BloggerzJune 3, 2013 at 4:37 AM