Brennatori

I know that there is a national nursing home week, is any one familiar with a national assisted living week? I am wondering becasue I would like to make that a really cool event for the community I work in. Thank you.

Hang in there!! I basically am in the same postion only I have residents telling me to my face that they hate me. The only thing that I would advise is to do the best that you can and chart problems, that way you can refer to the charting if you need to. Stay in there. If your residents and administrator are focusing on the negative hold an emergency resident council meeting or at least a resident meeting. Have your administrator attend as well. This way you can get positive and negative input from your residents. Also focus on the positives you receive. Like if you get a comment like, I love outings, then ask why the resident loves the outings where they want to go etc. I hope it works out.

Thank you guys for responding. I have asked this resident several times what she wants to do and have explained that we will indeed do them (we have done some of her activity suggestions and are planning to go to the opera, museums etc.) She herself is actually a new resident but came from an extremely weathly/social family with lots of power and ladies hung on her every word. The facility I started working at has only been open two years an dhas had a number of directors. I am about the fifth one. They had a great one for a year and a half and then they went through three and then me. The previous three stayed for about ttwo weeks. So I am walking into a community where the residents are discouraged as it is, but at the same time, having someone repeat that yo suck, does not help. I am also finishing out a schedule that was made in advance of my arrival. So I am trying. Thank you for the help!!!

Hello everyone. I am an AD at an assisted living community that focuses on memory care. There are several problems I am confronted with, 1) I have a resident who absolutley hates me!! She says the activities are childish and she wants better activities. (she is the only one that says this) She will be nice to my face and then find the next caregiver and report that she wants me fired, that I am a rotten person etc. etc. My executive director is well aware of her behavior and says to ignore it becasue her disease is progressing. The problem is I have worked in memory care communities and yes you get the occassional mean comment or something but they do not remember. This resident does it EVERY day and ALL day long. I even tried to apologize and say that we started off on the wrong foot. She said she just did not like me. That bothers me, but not as much as her coercing the other residents to try to stay away from the activities. This bothers me because they all enjoy the activities they come to, but this resident will stand outside the room and tell the residents coming in that these are childish activities and that no one should do them etc, etc. So how owuld I handle this in a professional manner? It is really driving me bonkers? I have only been at this new job a couple of weeks but I am really discouraged. It is not fun having to deal with his on a daily basis.