Suffering from Nursing Home Negligence
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Health & Fitness
Jun 20, 2007
johnsonlawgroup
Suffering from Nursing Home Negligence
Nursing homes are supposed to exist to care for the aging members of our society who are no longer able to care for themselves. They are supposed to be places of safety and security where our elderly loved ones can get the often extensive care that they need and the love and support of the staff that they desire. Unfortunately, these nursing homes have become less and less about the patient and more and more about turning a decent profit - or a more than decent profit. One of the biggest drains on the finances of any business can be the employees, and the more highly trained and well educated these employees are, the more expensive they are to keep in employ. A nurse is a highly trained medical professional, and are essential to the safe and proper running of a good nursing home. Unfortunately, the more focused these nursing homes get on money and on profit, the fewer nurses each shift seems to have until the remaining nurses are trying to do the work of twice their number. These skeleton crews of nurses are simply unable to keep up with the demands of caring for our elderly relatives and for their invalid patients. They might find themselves taking shortcuts due to the nursing home's negligence, desperately trying to keep up with the endless work of caring for people too old or too sick to care for themselves. These nurses quickly become burned out, with many of them quitting or transferring into new fields to escape the physical and emotional stresses of working under these conditions. The more nurses leave the nursing homes, the more the homes try to make do with fewer and fewer capable hands to do the work. These nursing homes become hotbeds of neglect and abuse, all in the name of turning a profit at the expense of the health and well being of the patients that the system was created to care for. Nursing home patients are frequent victims of this terrible nursing home negligence, and little is done about the dangers that they face until truly horrible harm is done or patients die because of the negligence of the nursing home owners. Not only do exhausted and overworked nurses become more prone to aggressive or angry behaviors like neglect and abuse, but they also become prone to human error. Incorrect medications or incorrect doses might be given by nurses who are working too many hours and doing too much work for their bodies to handle, causing painful complications and even death to the patients. For too long, we have stood aside and hoped that the system would improve on its own, and the system has continued to get worse. As nursing homes realize that there are few to no consequences for behaving in a negligent fashion, they realize that they can get away with their terrible behavior without modification for the better. Occasionally one of them will get tagged with a lawsuit, however the huge profits that they have been turning help them to take care of settlements without any problems. The lack of consequences might even make them more bold in their negligent activities. The time for letting these nursing homes get away with their neglectful behavior is over. It is up to us to stand up for the victims of these crimes of neglect and abuse and help the victims find their voices in the legal system. Anyone who has had to watch a loved one suffer from the aftermath of nursing home neglect or abuse knows the pain that they are going through. It is time for these families to band together to stand up to the greedy nursing home owners and managers and make them stand accountable for their actions. The abuse will not stop until we stop it, and nursing home abuse lawyers can help us make this stand against the corporate profiteering mentality. With the aid of a nursing home abuse lawyer, families of the victims of this terrible crime can make the nursing home owners pay for the suffering that they cause their patients through their negligence. They will be forced to deal with the consequences of their actions, and a big enough hit to their purses might even cause them to reconsider their impersonal and impractical approach to heal care for the elderly. It is in our power to end nursing home negligence if only the families of the victims stand up and fight together for the justice that should be theirs.
Nick Johnson is lead counsel with Johnson Law Group. Johnson represents plaintiffs in many states and focuses on injury cases involving Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect and Negligence. Visit http://www.topnursinghomelawyers.com or call 1-888-311-5522
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