Comments by "3namechangezalowd Evry90dayzlernmor" (@3namechangezalowdevry90day7) on "96 percent of Texas nursing homes admit they’re giving drugs to residents who don’t need them" video.

Those drugs are ordered by a doctor. The lady in the story appears to be oriented and has the legal right to refuse meds. Other patients appear alert and oriented during the day but become demented at night. It takes no time for a patient to get over a bed rail. Would you rather have them fall out of bed and break a hip? Would you rather have them tied into bed and run the risk of strangling themselves? These people are in the nursing homes because the families don't want to deal with changing depends, let alone dementia and psychosis.
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If all rooms had cameras, there'd be a ton of lawsuits, because there's not enough staff to change people every two hours, let alone keep them from climbing out of bed. Plus, combative residents have to pretty much be wrestled to have their diapers changed or their labs drawn. Lots of families would be lining up to get paid! Pretty soon, you'd have NO nursing staff at all because they'd be afraid to lose their licenses!
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@earvetta She can't videotape! She'd lose her job and possibly her license for violating patients' privacy.
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The nursing homes wouldn't be able to keep nurses if they did allow cameras! It's physically impossible to pass meds and do blood sugars on a whole hall of demented, combative patients within the two hour window required by the state. Nurses also have to fill out paperwork on skin assessments and 15 minute releases of restraints every two hours that didn't actually happen because it was too busy. Combative patients have to be wrestled to change their depends ot draw their labs. Everything's a potential lawsuit or loss of license.
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@carolynbrown7530 Giving a medication as ordered isn't "abuse". I'm telling you about reality, here. Nursing homes and hospitals enact all kinds of policies knowing full well that there's no time for the staff to comply with them. The faster staff has to work, the more errors will be made. Things not done routinely get signed off. If you can't accept that, take your demented, combative family member home and care for them yourself.
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Nurses give the meds out that were ordered for the patient! Would you rather have the nurses tie the demented patients into their beds so that they don't fall out and break a hip? Hospitals are also afraid of being accused of discrimination these days by patients who didn't get all the narcotics they wanted.
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@closedheart1934 Nurses as whistle blowers?! The state can take any nurse's license that they want, anytime they want it for giving the meds at the wrong time, because it's physically impossible to medicate a whole hall of demented, combative patients, let alone check their blood sugars within a two hour window! This would make the "whistleblower" a bad person just trying to cover for her own "negligence". Nurses also have to falsify documentation every shift on things such as full skin assessments and restraints being released for 15 minutes every two hours which DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN because things were way too busy! Don't believe the BS that nurses are just in short supply because they don't want Pfizer boosters!
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