@Sofia Are you able to work in an old folks home situation where the work kind of... renews itself, if you know what I mean. These jobs have benefits and usually all the perks. Definitely steady work once you're in.
That dawned on me, too. I mean, the agency has 200 of us and they promised sufficient work. But, it hasn't come true at all. Plus they made me work 15 hours in a row once, & frequently want 12 hours in a row, which is kind of obscene (and disruptive to my loved ones/my health regimens) considering I haven't even averaged 30 hours/week. I mean if they want me to work doubles, as long as I'm full time I would consider it if I had to. But, don't ask me to work doubles & then not give me any work. So, they are either exploiting us horribly or they aren't very well managed.
Okay, here goes. Retirement home #1 canned a lot of us after they got a new CEO who "wanted to bring in her own people". I'd only been there 2 weeks & was loving it.
Retirement home #2 could not find a uniform which would go around my bustline (This is not a joke). They told me I'd have to find my own in that particular color. I was not able to, so they didn't have any work for me.
Retirement home #3 had problems of a sexual nature, like male employees using keys to barging into locked residences of elderly females without knocking first. Like, front desk employees actually opening & reading residents' mail if the mail was from a sexual aid company (It was against policy to read residents' mail). And laughing & saying the names of which residents' ordered them loudly, even where the public could here. One of my jobs as receptionist was NOT to give master key copies to any employee for any unit UNLESS it was vacated. But other receptionists kept doing it & my trainer didn't want to explain to me how to make sure a unit was vacated. I should have gone over her head, but instead I point blank told her that we all know residents are sexual, because we'd all been joking about the catalogs they order, so what if maintenance barged in on a lady who was engaged in sexual behavior? Finally, she showed me the process (which would be my JOB) to do to make sure a unit was vacated before handing over the master keys. She acted really put out at having to teach me that. She maintained that it really didn't matter. For that question, for portraying residents as potentially sexual, I was fired. Obviously that job not on my resume. At the time I was fired, Human Resources told me they were also letting me go because I am allergic to eggs, which meant that I had to have (and did have) a blood draw to be tested for tuberculosis instead of the regular injection. It had cost the company $150 extra (and caused me a LOT of run-around, but I never complained). I'm sure I have a case there, but it would be her word against mine.
Retirement home #4 had to let care givers/hospitality aids go after the state found out the facility didn't have enough CNAs on duty. I had been there 2 weeks. I am eligible for re-hire.
I realize these crazy, short terms of employment are no reason to quit trying. So yes, I will continue to try to see which facilities might be a good fit for me.
There are things to consider when choosing to work at a facility. At one facility, I met a resident who became paralyzed the day she got a flu shot. In 2018. Being paralyzed is so serious. If a paralyzed person has asthma or hypoglycemia or whatever... they are totally dependent on a nurse's aid for their survival. This particular woman did not have asthma or hypoglycemia or whatever. But, she did have high blood pressure. When you are in a facility, you don't get a "medi-pack" to use for your daily pills, not even for high blood pressure pills. You are totally dependent on the staff to give you your daily pill, and hopefully on time. One day, the facility was very late in delivering her blood pressure medicine or checking her blood pressure. Her husband found out that her blood pressure that day was in the heart attack range. She wasn't that old. Her husband worked full time & after work every day spent hours with her. Anyhow, she survived medical negligence, but she was paralyzed just from the flu shot. She was in the facility a long time, eventually progressing to being able to sit in a wheel chair. I hope she learned to walk again, but by then I was no longer employed. She & her husband were two of the nicest people I have ever met.
Working in some facilities, like the one above, requires the flu shot every year. They say you can opt to wear a mask, but they lose funding from Medicare if you opt out, so anyone who opts out is a pariah & treated poorly by management. Since I had only been there a short time, I had not yet received the flu shot. Which is a paralysis risk (I'm sure it says so right in the packaging, but we don't see the packaging, only the nurse does).
So, an applicant needs to think seriously about what type of facility that are comfortable working in, considering what immunizations are required.
Along related lines, children all across America are becoming paralyzed by a condition called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). The paralysis disrupts their families, their childhood, & their health. They have to stay in medical facilities to recover, & anytime you stay in a medical facility, you risk dying of negligence or malpractise. Medical professional error are THE leading cause of death in the United States. Anyhow, paralysis is a very serious, growing issue. I believe that these cases are clearly caused by the flu shot. I also believe the Associated Press is negligent in not confronting the Center for Disease Control about it.
I've read articles about AFM and Guillan Barre Syndrome, and experts believe they are related. Guillan Barre Syndrome is what paralyzed the lady I met in a facility, who became paralyzed the day she received a flu shot. Anyhow, I believe the mainstream media has been acting like these are two different diseases, but I've read expert articles that state that the symptoms of AFM are caused by the same bodily problem as the symptoms of Guillan Barre Syndrome, which therefore (to me) draws a connection between AFM and flu shots. Besides, who do we know that gets flu shots? Children. And who is being paralyzed? Children.
If you research AFM, remember it is only half the picture. The statistics on AFM do not include the statistics on Guillan Barre Sundrome. Yet the two conditions may have the same cause & to me, effectively are the same disease.
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