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If you are rushing through only to have the residents sitting waiting for an hour for their dinners then I'd simply work at your own pace. This sounds like a toxic workplace where management turns a blind eye and your coworkers have gotten used to slacking off, it's why good aides either burn out or quit. Thank goodness for people like you.
I would be concerned if everything is done in a big hurry, that is usually when accidents happen.
Thank you for caring enough to change this behavior.
If I may say so, you don't write like the kind of person who wouldn't know how to report risks and poor practice if you need to. What do you plan to do?
The real reason seems to be that the CNA’s just want to get it over with and have a smoking break.
checking their clothing and any continence pad
moving the resident from the bed to the wheelchair. Is there a Hoyer lift? How is this usually done?
wheeling the resident to the dining room
returning to the next resident
I don't see how you could do that in a total of five minutes per resident without, at best, making the resident feel like a battery chicken. Where's the explanation of each step, pause for permission, individual interaction?
Even when I got quite good at it, I couldn't have changed a soiled diaper - and cleared up, and washed my hands - in five minutes. Fifteen, I think you're right, is probably good going.
When you say you're "doing this manually" - if a resident is unable to bear weight, you shouldn't be doing this without proper equipment and/or on your own. It isn't safe.
What does your line manager have to say about any of this?
I would describe what I see being done as “sack of potatoes” treatment.
You are not allowed to do this! You are being required to “Hurry up! Get moving!,” TIMES TWELVE!
It is unreasonable in so many ways! You have too many patients. You’re given too little time. You’re not given any help. Your not taking in account your patient’s disabilities. You’re not given any leeway for mishaps.
Yes! It is a formula for abuse! How else can you get the job done by the standards set forth?
Not only are you doing one of the hardest jobs there is but you are being set up to be a total failure doing it!
It isn’t like a production line where you will work faster the more experience you get. No matter how good you are at your job, you have extenuating circumstances every way you look at it!
I feel sorry for you, yet I’m very glad we are doing well at home.
Charlotte
The other advice I’ve gotten is “JUST HURRY UP AND DO IT!”
It is so very sad, the priorities of the world. People care more about animals than humans. I think what you speak of is abuse. But bless you for what you do.
Is it an abuse of the patient? That depends on the staffer. If you are rushing, rough handling them, putting them in dangerous situations, in order to meet that deadline, then you are at risk of tilting into what would be considered abusive. If you are taking the amount of time you need regardless of how long it takes and taking the heat for being late from your boss, then there is no patient abuse going on.
Is it abusive to the staff? It could be seen as mental abuse of a staffer to force them to choose between providing what they know is their very best patient care and meeting required deadlines in order to keep their job.
That’s exactly what’s happening and they’ve found a gang of workers who don’t care.