I am the caregiver for a woman client who is 93 years old. She was admitted to this nursing for for 10 days in order to receive drip antibiotics for an infection which were to be administered by drip IV every 12 hours in her arm where the line had been put in her vein at the hospital, this was in her right arm. When we arrived the nurses home smells of urine, the bed she was placed in was broken and was never fixed or replaced, the walls were dirty and stained with holes in them, the bathroom door and the closet door were partially painted and the trash in the room and bathroom was running over and never emptied, the toilet seat was dirty, and the bathroom floor was wet with urine on several occasions.
When I would arrive in the mornings and in the afternoons my client would be wet through her diaper and clothing and the bed sheets would be wet, the entire 3 days that we remained there the sheets on her bed were never changed. When my client arrived in the nursing home directly from the hospital they began administering the drip IV at 4am and then again at 4pm everyday. The second day she was there I walked in and a nurse was trying to get blood from her other arm. My client got very upset and screamed and according to my client, the nurse cursed her and said some very ugly things to her and left the room without even cleaning the blood off her arm or her clothes or the bed.
When the nurses returned to the room, I asked them why they couldn't get the blood from the lines which were already in her right arm, (since this is what they are put there for). She was very surprised and stated she didn't know she had these in her right arm. This only confirmed to me that they didn't even look at my clients chart are they would have known this and further more, regardless of how my client acted when they tried to stick her with the needle that does not give any nurse the right to curse someone or talk ugly to them. While she was there, I sat in the room with her and a nurse would not even check on her for 5 or 6 hours at a time. My client was too weak to go the the bathroom alone so she would pull her cord to call someone and someone would finally show up about 45 minutes later and one time when they did show up they told her to quit pulling the cord because it upset the whole nursing home.
My client's whole problem is her bladder. She has to use the restroom at least every 45 minutes to an hour and when she has to go, she can not wait. So, my client would end up wetting her diaper but they would never even come in to change her wet diaper and clothing. On the 3rd day when we finally made arrangements to move her to another facility, they made it very difficult. They totally ignored her needs and treated her as well as me very rudely. I would have to say this is the worst nursing home I have every experienced and I would not recommend it to anyone for any reason.
