care homes

It takes a lot of patience working in this kind of institution. First, you have to bear in mind that you are taking care elders. Not only that, your job will be rated not just on your performance but more so on care that you give to the elders. It would sometimes make you feel degraded that you have to resort to this kind of work to think that there is no blood relation with the person you take care of.

i can understand your feeling now really, but we need to find the positive direction in our negative life.

Hey starlight! I do know that your job isn't easy and that you have to take alot of crap that you don't want to take! But, if you want the job, the you have to take what goes along with it! I have had many jobs where I was mistreated and abused and I sure didn't like it, but I needed the money so I had no other choice but to take the crap and deal with the miserable mistreatment and abuse! And believe me it was really stressful and unpleasant! I used to go home at night and drink myself into oblivion which ended up making me sick and now I am disabled myself! You need to make choices in life so make them wisely!

aww my brother works in a care home too and sometimes its just so sad to see him visit me with all sorts of bruises but nevertheless he still loves his job. to stick with a crummy job like that takes a lot i don't know many people who would especially since the patients are not even family and you barely know anything about them. you guys give your heart and soul in to it and its just amazing. they should declare a holiday in you guys honor. don't worry. at least at the end of the day you can close your eyes and sleep peacefully knowing that you have done a good deed. life always gets better. always have faith, and never give up, for you are one in a million. god bless you and your family. i wish you all the luck and happiness with your job. cheers mate.

Hello Starlight, I know that your job isn't easy but you need to be patient. It just like us being teachers. This kind of job isn't easy but we still need to deal with it. I once 'attacked' by an angry father after his daughter refused to come to school after I lectured her for not doing her homework. I didn't touch, I just nagged. Still, the 14 years old told his father she didn't want to go to school because I get mad at her. How am I supposed to teach if we can even do that?

Each one of us needs a care and for me to Care is to love . it is the best gift that we can share to anybody.Specially if you work in a care home, you need to have patience,and you can only have it if you really work with love and devotion, it will be very easy for you to do things that makes your patient satisfy if you give love to your work. Sending love ones to the care home doesn't mean they don't love them, maybe they just wanted that their love ones be given full attention and care even they are not around and that makes them feel contented and have peace of mind. These case very open happened to those who are very busy to earn for a living. I know there is no easy thing in this world , we need to sacrifice and have patience in order to achieve what we wanted, and to have it we should have faith in GOD.

I have worked at many nursing homes and feel the same way that you do. I am a nursing assistant and just do not enjoy that type of work anymore.

I started working in a nursing home in 2000. I enjoyed the work and interaction with the residents. I would do it again for the residents. What I can not understand, is why so many of the female staff have so many prejudices toward male staff (I am 63 years young) and make no apologies for their behavior toward them. So many of them DO NOT WANT MALE CAREGIVERS IN THEIR NURSING HOME, and they are very vocal about it. Have any other men been on the receiving end of this kind of treatment?

I sympathise with you as I work on an acute medical work and we have some aggressive and abusive patients - and we also have relatives complaining... but,even when our patients are medically fit, we have problems getting their families or their care homes to take them back. Then we get complaints about 'bed-blocking' because A&E want to send new patients to us but we have no beds empty.We've just had an annual pay rise so my current hourly rate is £6.95. Luckily, I have some great colleagues and we keep each other sane (or maybe not???) Hope you have an easier day. take care.