- Non Profit My Ass
- What Are Beacon Workers Trained For?
- Being A Professional – A Surprise
- It Is About Patient Comfort
- Keep Patients Guessing and Confused
- Sixteen Years of Experience but of what
- There Are Good People, Just Not Enough
- The Nightmares Do Not Go Away
- Shaking Worse with Substitutes
- Being Old Isn’t Cheap
- NDP Caregiver Plan more like Harper Tax Cuts
- Last Second Substitutes
Today’s substitute worker, raises the question, just what are the Beacon Home Support Workers trained to do? IT CERTAINLY ISN’T TO HELP A 93 YEAR OLD WITH A SPONGE BATH.
- Workers should at least have a basic knowledge of the ailments that Seniors face, such as Brittle Bones. Today’s worker hasn’t a clue, thinks it is scary. Course she didn’t know what the work ‘yank or pull’ meant either. NOW THAT IS SCARY TO ME.
After wasting several minutes attempting to LOGIN to the Beacon Phone In System, it was time for our Substitute to read the care plan. A LESSON IN FRUSTRATION as she already had trouble trying to remember our phone number, in order to log in. THAT plus trying to figure out what my name is.
- Workers should at least have a good understanding of ENGLISH, if they are going to work here. Not a basic understanding, but know what words like YANK mean. Know what is ‘body soap’ versus ‘body lotion’.
- IF you can’t speak ENGLISH, how are you expecting to communicate with the Patient? Or even be able to understand their instructions?
Do people really toss dirty nappies (diapers) (depends) into the everyday garbage pail in a bedroom? SERIOUSLY, DO THEY?
- Workers should be aware of basic sanitary rituals, like putting soiled clothing in a laundry hamper or basket, in disposing of soiled depends into a closed container, if one is provided. IF NOT, then asking where, would make sense.
Makes you wonder, if they are unaware of how to properly dispose of soiled depends, just how much care do they place in keeping their own hands clean? The risk of spreading infection is a serious one, when dealing with the Elderly.
- Workers should be trained in following proper safety practises, when dealing with Elderly patients.
Like following behind a patient, who you have been told is shaky, has balance issues, or NOT reaching over them to grab your purse, while they are walking. Course, moving the purse up and around their head, as they walk, isn’t a good idea either. IT IS COMMON SENSE, ISN’T IT?
- Substitute Workers should READ the Care Plan PRIOR to commencing their duties, NOT AFTERWARDS. BE NICE IF THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT THEY READ TOO!
Even if you are given the Care Plan to read, act like you are reading it, but are unable to understand the instructions, how can you be expected to properly perform your assigned duties? YET BEACON COMMUNITY SERVICES SEEMS TO THINK YOU CAN.
BEACON COMMUNITY SERVICES & VIHA NEED TO BE BROUGHT UP ON CRIMINAL CHARGES, FOR ELDER ABUSE.