Well Substitute #1 for the week is gone, and even Mom agrees, NOT one of the better workers.
To begin with, I really don’t think making personal calls at the end of your time, is appropriate, especially when you haven’t finished the assignment. I know that time is precious, but really, things need to be done right, not half assed.
Secondly, sorry but depends aren’t designed to be flying half mast. It leads to leakage, which leads to more laundry, but more importantly, leads to discomfort and skin irritations. It means, my dear Trudy, that right after Breakfast, I had to change Mom’s nightshirt, plus her depends.
IT also meant that I had to wash her, in her privates, which is why you were sent here in the first place. I then had to dry her, and once more apply the skin lotion, to avoid discomfort, and irritations. In other words, YOUR TIME HERE WAS BASICALLY A WASTED EXERCISE.
While I can understand not knowing the procedures, given its a first time, there are some things that really don’t require instructions, or maybe they do? Such as how to properly put depends on a person, such as not letting someone unsteady on their feet walk unattended to the dining room, while you make a phone call.
These SHOULD BE common sense, something that is obviously lacking with many women being sent into our homes. And you know what surprises me, is that these aren’t young women, but in their late forties, early fifties. THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
I suppose the real problem is, that I expect too much. Call it a sense of entitlement, or whatever, but really I was taught that no matter what, I should ALWAYS do my best in whatever task I am assigned. I was taught, that I may fail, but as long as I could honestly say I had tried my best, then I had succeeded.
Funny how today that isn’t the case. IF it truly is that these people are doing their best, then we really are in deep shit, because they simply aren’t up to snuff. IT does come down to training, but it also comes down to using common sense.
Makes me wonder, how the younger generation is going to be, in handling the aged, which means, how they gonna care for US.