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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it’s such a high turnover and hard job and they need to meet staffing 24/7 even when people are sick or don’t show many facilities rely on agencies to fill openings or gaps and those agency workers go to multiple places. [/quote]

My father lived in a skilled nursing unit at a local, “fancy” nursing home for nearly 4 years.

Very common to hire a “private duty” aide (a CNA) to simply “sit with” (a common term) a skilled nursing care resident. Ugly truth is that the few nurses on staff are all business and overworked and underpaid. Yes, a nurse is available but otherwise, the skilled nursing resident just sits or lies down alone, in maybe a shared room for hours. Call buttons are ignored.

Learned quickly that to guard against negligence, you have to supplement care. These are unlicensed,
independent caregivers and they typically approach family members, hoping to be hired.

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Its only common for rich parents like yours.  Most are on medicaid in some nursing homes and no one has a private duty nurse.[/quote]

My point was to illustrate that there are lots of unregulated, unmonitored freelancers in and out of nursing homes. This is a potentially dangerous situation, especially since these caregivers are paid under the table and still attempt to come in even under a lockdown situation. They become part of the family.
I happen to know that some of these caregivers slip in before or after hours to help residents bathe or grab their laundry. Often the private duty aides are hired when you first move to independent living, then they stay with you through until the end.

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So they are "sneaking in" to help residents bathe, do their laundry, maybe sit and chat with them. They enhance the care given to the resident and lighten the load of the onsite staff.  This to you is a problem?  Do you also hate it when family members sit by their loved one's bedside at the hospital?  [/quote]

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