Posts Tagged ‘substitute workers’
Health Care is really a minefield. Step the wrong way, and it can blow up in your face. Thing is, when you want to clear a path through a minefield, you have a couple of choices. One choice is simply send the people through, and when they get blown up, you just send more people …
Read MoreWhy is it, that when a substitute worker comes here, after a long absence, they maintain they know the routine?
Think about it:
They must have one hell of a memory to know how to do things for Mom, after only doing it once or twice in the last six month.
They are physic, after all how else …
Todays worker, a substitute (Augustina), has been here before. Still, so was Monday’s worker (Charlotte). The new rule in this house, all new workers who haven’t been here for some time, get to read the new care plan.
IT IS SIMPLE, THEY CAN’T BE EXPECTED TO REMEMBER EVERY DETAIL FOR EVERY PATIENT, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY HAVEN’T …
It is this type of action, that makes me wonder about the committment of both VIHA and Beacon Community Services, on whether or not they give a rat’s ass about their Patients.
Regular Home Support Workers get sick, need time off, and that is normal, but when you fail to inform the people relying on their …
Today it is Eleanor, another substitute that has been here before, and one I’d wish hadn’t been.
What is it about some home workers, that think they know the routine that should be followed, better than either Mother or Me?
Is it arrogance or experience?
Right now, Mom has a very tender groin area. Just standing up is …
This is gonna be a fun week for us both.
2 of the regular home support workers are off this week, which means, we get newbies for four out of the five days. And the first one scheduled was Anita, but hey, we got a substitute for her already, Trudy. LOL
So far, a nice lady but …
