By: Dottie Bement

Dottie Bement — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:29:12 +0000

I am ecstatic about the upcoming measures to post nursing home ratings. I believe that basing the ratings on the current state survey results is an excellent way to begin. As part of the Better Jobs/Better Care NC quality improvement movement; a Coaching Supervision Instructor, I hope that all state movements to better the care of our elderly will be considered in the ratings.
I am an educator of Nurse Aides in the community college system.Our training is very precise and quality ensured but based on an ideal care setting. The student to patient care ratio is drastically different than what their future jobs will demand. Our privately funded grants to examine the reason for the low retention of Nurse aides in NC revealed one reason being the mental stress the Nurse Aide incurs as she tries to give quality care to a greater number of patience than she can care for as she was trained. The greater stress revealed emenated from the core reason the nurse aide chose care giving – to care for others. In the Nursing Home environment this core reason is challenged daily.
I hope that the institution of staff ratios based on acuity levels is mandated and the “Magnet Status”Nursing Home evolves.
Thank you for this web page.
Dottie Bement

By: Patricia Downing

Patricia Downing — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:46:37 +0000

I think it is about time for someone to be concerned about staff ratios in nursing homes.To often these ratios are to high which compromises the quality of care that cna’s can give to each resident. Our elderly deserve to receive the best care possible and this cannot be accomplished when one cna has 8 to 10 people to care for.I firmly believe the ratio should be set at 5 residents to 1 cna.

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By: Dottie Bement

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