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>. It has more to do with > the amount of staff, its rapid turnover, their pay and the training > required, but if they don't do the job that they > were hired to do and do not like what they do, then they should find > another occupation. .......which is why there is such a high turnover rate. As a home health care nurse (I also work part-time in a hospital setting - which I much prefer), I have visited nursing homes where the staff does everything from washing the floors to preparing the meals while trying to care for patients as well. These people are as devoted as you'll find anywhere - however, the degree of difficulty involved in their jobs is so high that it isn't surprising that personnel leave. No one, even the most committed, can tolerate for long the dismal working conditions and the back breaking job involved with lifting patients, turning them in bed and giving them complete care. We need to pay these folks more - we need to compensate them and commend them for their devotion. Until we start doing that, expect to continue to see poor conditions in nursing homes. In addition to the work that this list does in encouraging the government to fund research, we should also be prodding the government to improve nursing home care. ----------- God bless Mary Ann Ryan (CG Jamie 63/23) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn