Most U.S. nursing homes will need to add staffing under a federal rule announced Monday that for the first time sets minimum staffing ratios nationwide for homes that care for elderly and disabled people.
The rule, announced Monday by Vice President Kamala Harris, mandates that nursing homes meet minimum staffing requirements for registered nurses and nurse aides. The rule is intended to limit cases of resident neglect or delays in care, a lingering issue that was exposed when more than 200,000 nursing home residents and staff died from COVID-19 in the first two years of the pandemic.
Experts call the rule a significant step toward bolstering nursing home quality and safety.
“This is the most important nursing home reform in decades,” said David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. “We need more staff in nursing homes. This is a big development in terms of setting a floor such that nursing homes can’t grossly understaff facilities.”
…a lingering issue that was exposed when more than 200,000 nursing home residents and staff died from COVID-19 in the first two years of the pandemic.
And it took this long? Well, better late than never.
It’s just people can’t pay to get degrees for this. There’s a national nursing shortage, affordable nursing homes won’t be able to afford nurses during the shortage.
https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/fact-sheets/nursing-shortage
If Biden wants to help his peers in nursing homes, the solution was fixing our higher education system four years ago so nurses will be graduating today.
Not this performative shit right before an election that sounds great in a headline, but is going to make nursing homes even more unaffordable.
No jobs for the young, no care for the old.
This is what happens when old people refuse to invest in the generations that come after them
Two RNs per 100 patients isn’t unreasonable, and the rest of the caregiver roles don’t typically require higher education.
Two RNs per 100 patients isn’t unreasonable
For satisfying a staffing requirement, or for patient care? Cuz 2 RNs for 100 patients is absolute shit patient care.
Two RNs per 100 patients isn’t unreasonable
Most probably have that…
But that’s not what this is.
On average, a nursing home with 100 residents would have two to three registered nurses and at least 10 nurse assistants on duty for each shift around the clock. Officials said this level of staffing is necessary to provide safe care with good outcomes for vulnerable residents.
Assume 3 shifts a day, really 4 because of time off and weekends.
So that’s 8-16 minimum.
Which is significantly higher than “2”.
And like I said, there aren’t enough nurses for hospitals. There’s just non available, and we have a shit ton of retirement homes in this countries with way less than that 8-16 per 100 patients, and it’s already expensive.
The salary we be passed on to the patients, and some of them will no longer be able to afford it.
Which wouldn’t be an issue if we fixed our healthcare system, but Biden doesn’t want to do that either.
And like I said, there aren’t enough nurses for hospitals. There’s just non available, and we have a shit ton of retirement homes in this countries with way less than that 8-16 per 100 patients, and it’s already expensive.
So you don’t like the proposed change to address the problem.
What is YOUR solution to the problem of nursing home residents not receiving proper care?
Also, limit your solution to only the power of the Executive at the federal level so we can make an apples-to-apples comparison.
