What I recommend is to look up the facility star rating and the last couple yearly AHCA survey results for the nursing home. You can also check to see if they have had any complaint surveys recently and what the outcomes of those were.
>Nurses are overworked in these places, and the owners of nursing homes make money only by hiring not enough nurses.
As above, there are staffing level requirements.
>I know of a nurse, who used to not take readings, but filled them out based on yesterday readings. This, because she had so much work to do on her own.
She could lose her license for this, and blaming someone else won't save it. Nurses are in incredibly high demand and she should go work somewhere else. Let me know if she needs a job and what state she's located in (and what license? RN, LPN?). We hire hundreds of nurses per year.
She told me to not tell anyone about this, as she will lose her license--names and exact locations withheld. Anyway, she found a better job at a prison, with better pay, benefits, etc.
Hopefully she takes better care of the prisoners.
Nurses are overworked in these places, and the owners of nursing homes make money only by hiring not enough nurses. I know of a nurse, who used to not take readings, but filled them out based on yesterday readings. This, because she had so much work to do on her own.