A skilled nursing home is a medical facility providing services
similar to a hospital. The homes are staffed with licensed nurses,
shared rooms, hospital beds, regular scheduled doctor rounds, meals
and housekeeping. Skilled nursing homes often provide a more pleasant
setting with optimal nurse to patient ratios and relaxed atmospheres.
Skilled nursing homes provide both long-term and short-term care
solutions for seniors. Unlike Assisted Living or Board and Care homes,
skilled nursing homes provide solutions for patients with complex
medical issues that require 24-hour supervision. These issues can
include mental issues such as dementia and physical issues such as
major infections, wound care, IV therapy, tube feeding and physical/
occupational therapy. Skilled nursing facilities are also a common
solution for seniors that are unable to care for themselves on daily
basis such as those suffering from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
disease.
A skilled nursing home typically provides a team approach when
providing medical care to patients. A licensed individual, usually
called the "administrator", oversees the departments comprising the
skilled nursing home. A licensed Director of Nursing ["D.O.N."] is
then responsible for the administration of each department providing
care to residents. Each D.O.N. is directly involved in the medical
care of each patient. Their duties include overseeing nurses,
interacting with physicians and resolving any patient-related issues.
In essence, the D.O.N. is the person overseeing the day-to-day medical
care of the patient.
In addition to the Director of Nursing, a skilled nursing home will
customarily have other professionals on staff to assist patients. A
med nurse is always assigned for the sole purpose of administering
medications prescribed for the patients. Physical and occupational
therapists also work within the structure of care, coordinating
specifically ordered therapies and reporting progress to doctors. An
activities director is in charge of all social interaction and
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news.chi.sbcglobal.net - 30 Jan 2008 03:01 GMT
Congratulations. I agree nursing homes provide all you say, and have good
nursing care, amiabiity among the patients, if they are able. BUT you
do not know the other side of nursing homes that negate all the good they
do.
Believe this or not, many people die prematurely in the nursing homes, by
the use of anti-deepressants which are a new addition of the last 50 years
or so. They are deadly by a mind/body connection from those that are on
anti-depressants
to those that are not on anti-depressants. This is not known and the
strange deadly factor is that what one person ingests, (all stimulants,
anti-depressants particularly in nursing homes) is devastating to the
health of those that are not on anti-depressants. If you will notice,
many decline quickly with illnesses that they acquire from the environment
of anti-depressants. And the resident doctor nor anyone else in charge
notices the difference between acquired symptoms (like crohns disease
causing obstructions, abnormal weight gain, and any problem you can think of
concerning the body) and the illness they were admitted for. It is very
sad to see the residents acquire symptoms that were never part of their
illness.
I have said this time and again where I have friends in the nursing homes.
Ban the anti-depressants in the home. Let everyone follow their natural
course of progression and live comfortably without being vexed by some
other's anti-depressant. In reality I now know by their indifference to
the patients that their vocation (the administrators) is murder. Banning
the stimulants are the difference between life and death and it is in the
administrator's hands. They care nothing about this deathly aspect. They
say they must follow the doctor's orders. Well, Hitler had doctors killing
also. Being a doctor does not give them the right to prescribe what may
help one person at the jeopardy of another. Actually, if the home is free
of anti-depressants, no one will miss them. They can receive therapy from
the psychologist or a tranquillizer which will do no harm to anyone (Valium,
etc). Addictive? Better than killing someone, and the tranquillizers
are vastly overrated as addictive.
Nothing can be done about most illnesses, but death by an anti-depressant is
a choice whether to live or die.
The world needs to know this. ANTI-DEPRESSANTS ARE A LICENSE TO KILL, A
LITTLE KNOWN FACT. The good they do does not justify harming another
person. and stranger still the patients do not have to be in one
another's immediate company. Wherever the mind travels, the destruction
follows because of the anti-depressant.
Would any owner or adminsitrator feel comfortable knowing that all their
valiant efforts are in vain and rushing towards an untimely death. Some
are lucky to resist the bad vibrations, but many are not. Pay attention,
does not their illness progress rather rapidly for some and with symptoms
that are far removed from their original illness.
This is no small matter. It is creating problems never before experienced
in the world.
A nursing home is a death camp today. Everyone deserves a safe haven.
And they assume this is what their loved one will receive. Outwardly
everything looks fine, but the patient's deteriorating condition of
unrelated illnesses defies the hope for safe care. G-d will decide when
it is time for the patient to cease, and the administrators should ban the
anti-depressants and allow this to be the natural course of health care.
At least if this is not practical, as the pharmaceutical will never accept
this, the homes should be divided in two, so that those that want to be on
an anti-deepressant can be, and those that prefer to be in a
anti-depressant free home should be able to reside in one also. This
problem needs to be exposed. One nurse told me the psychiatrist receives
compensation for placing the patients on anti-depressants. Is this not
the worst sort of bribery?
My heart aches for the residents that experience misery and injustice at the
hands of the nursing homes.
Gail Michael
Advocate147@aol.com
Read more if you care to on Website DoctorBrains.org
comments on Crohns and Colitis by Kureforcrohns.
>I pray the hearts of the administrators and owners of nursing homes will
>learn of the intense error of the anti-depressants.
This is a common problem in all aspects of life, stimulants are marijuana,
cocaine, etc. and have the same side effects. But the anti-depressants
have made the world a receptor for many new illnesses given a name that
means nothing.
Can anyone help? A courageous doctor could step forward.
Surely he would know the difference between what develops organically and
what develops environmentally.
news.chi.sbcglobal.net - 09 Feb 2008 20:16 GMT
Where do you live with this glowing description of a nursing home. Do
they RX anti-depressants? Everything you say is true if they do not give
ANYONE anti-depressants.
If they do, nursing homes are nothing but killing fields.
When I leave after visiting there, I am so envious of all the people on the
street that are not in that nursing home.
To be fair, they all cater to the pharmaceuticals and pass out
anti-depressants. A person could be there a day, and the psychiatrist
decides that person is depressed. What a capable doctor that is. (in her
own mind). I wish everyone that dispenses anti-depressants reserve them
for their own family, and that will show them the destruction and death it
will lead to. (Not everyone is vulnerable, but most people are without
realizing it.
Gail Michael