Something That's Been Bothering Me - Comments

@ independence.

It really doesn't.

Ah, okay. Yeah, that makes no sense whatsoever.

@ independence.
I've been there long enough to know exactly who the rude ones are, where they're located, what they eat for breakfast basically the works. A lot of the rude ones have Alzheimer's or dementia. It seems like they're ruder to the more functional ones and the nicer ones. Which is totally ass backwards.

It doesn't help though when you do have the elderly there who actually are rude. My grandma's in a nursing home and she is one of those rude ones. Staff also don't need to take things like that. So while they need to be compassionate towards the elderly, I personally wouldn't accept it if there were those who actually were rude to me. (I don't know how that nursing home is. I'm just speaking from personal experience.)

@ bright lights;
It's for school. You take the class, go out and train, then you get your license. They basically teach you everything you're going to learn in your first year of nursing school

I can understand that you can forget, but still they are people and they're being treated as if they were less than such.

It's all we can do. All it did for me was make me dread aging.

@ MORANG

I actually sat and thought about this. I don't think that anyone is really that cold hearted and I don't think I'm overly emotional about it. I always found something very sad and depressing about death. It's death. Although, I never cried for the woman, but it did upset me. It was unsettling for me. I'd just like to think that that's their own coping mechanism. It was uncomfortable for me but it was an uncomfortable situation too. Am I making any sense? I think it's how they deal.

@ dopey
I'm sure I can, but then everybody will lose their jobs and God knows where they'll put the residents. This place is supposed to be the best one in the area. The other is deplorable. A dog shouldn't be subjected to that.

See, this is what I was talking about being afraid of. I can handle cleaning, I can handle feeding, (I can't handle needles but that's a different story), but I straight up cannot under any circumstances handle death. And I wouldn't want to have to resort to giving up that emotion or fear in order to continue doing my job. Because this is exactly what it results in. People who appear or are uncaring, cruel, or angry. And I never ever want to be that person.

Are you in training for a job or for school? (I will actually have to become a CNA before I start taking my nursing classes.)

As for how the residents are treated, it's sadly not surprising. There is so much hatred for the elderly, and for no acceptable reason. We sometimes forget that they were once as young as us, feeling the way we do now. When they are bitchy, think about it, they've been stuck with other humans for so many years.

Those people who said what they did about the woman who died will eventually learn. Maybe they'll learn the hard way when one of their relatives is treated terribly in a nursing home.

Well, there are a few viewpoints to consider.

1 is that this is a way for people to deal with all the death and despair around them. They block it out and replace it with something easier to deal with: anger

2. They are actually cold and unfeeling.

3. Maybe you are being to emotional about it (i do not mean to bash, simply trying to play devils advocate (and yes i recognize the irony of calling someone over emotional on a creative writing website))? Remember, everyone has to die, and it is a little bit unfair to mourn for one person but not the others. Plus, you did not know them, their lives did not affect you one bit, so why be sad by their passing? In fact, it is quite possible that they are in a better place right now, no matter what or where that place may be.

Can you report them for saying things like that though, especially around the families?