Title: Re: [QUAD-L] Need Advice
You can try contacting the ombudsmen or the state dept of health. I understand her not coming in your room went through the same thing with half the aids working at the nursing home I was in. had the state out there so much they found me an apt. helped me with finding agency and everything. Not saying that’s the best solution. I got a lot of staff fired because the aides and nurses come in with attitudes preconceived from coworkers and I’d let them have it with both barrels. Looking back those 2yrs I spent in nursing home were the worse 2yrs of me being a quad.
On 4/17/06 3:43 PM, "S. Dial" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey Gang,
I'm having a problem and need to know what you think I should do. During my first year in this nursing home I had a problem with an aide named Poochie who I ended up filing a grievance on for neglect and refusal of care who was from then on not assigned to me, she was later caught sleeping on the job and let go, but has been hired back in recent weeks.
Since her return I've been told of comments from her such as "You know I don't go in Stephanie's room!" regarding answering my light or coming in to care for my roommate.
This doesn't bother as I prefer her as far away from me as possible, but today she and her partner, a young man named Jeremy, were assigned to my hall. An aide from another hall had to come feed me and informed me that Poochie had been assigned to feed me and do my care and had refused so that was why she was feeding me.
Between having Poochie and this male aide on my hall I would have been effectively without care if it wasn't for the kindness of Meagan who fed me and then after finishing her people's care came back and got me up.
I did complain to the charge nurse, Adam, and tell him what had transpired in the past and today and that basically I'd rather not have any dealings with this person and he said he'd file a grievance against her. I also tried contacting my social worker, Bambi Barber, to see if she could help my situation only to discover she isn't in today. I'm feeling really stressed and vulnerable over how my care is going to be managed over the next 2 weeks which is how long she'll be on my hall, if management won't agree to switch her. What can I do to solve this situation without undue drama that keeps this person away from me?
Scared & Sad,
Steph
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