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I
think that's what they are expecting and looking for. I think it
is very important to hire enough staff in the nursing homes. It
shouldn't be only a way to get rich.
We are like family of those patients. Every morning when you come
to work they are more likely to talk to you instead of letting you
do your job. One patient told me one day to sit for a while and
talk to me. "You are helping me better when you take time to
talk to me instead of dressing me up. Where am I going?" Unfortunately
you are always in a rush to finish to go to the next one. The patients
are always tracking your days off, to know who is going to help
them the day you are off. They are like little children who rely
on you to live. When it is your time to go home, some ask if they
can go with you.
They make you feel really sorry for them. They are comfortable with
you and think that you are their family. We really are their family
because when it is time for them to die you are the one they hold
very tight and make cry.
I think it is a very serious problem. They need to hire more staff
and give us less patients so we can have time and make them feel
good. Today is their turn and tomorrow will be ours. We need to
fight together to change the situation, so we don't have to suffer
mentally as they are suffering now.
Marie Florence Solius
CNA
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