Many Thanks to CNAs and Caregivers who Help So Many...but some drawbacks to the job so 'be warned!' You are Not Alone!

Thanks for your remarkable, caring work. Robots are needed to handle some of the lifting and who knows what else but who'd really want that? The human touch and understanding of many needs is light years away from what a robot or most folks for that matter can do especially longterm..and Yet, the job is not appreciated even by many of the patients (they need more patience and support since they have a tough row to hoe of being compromised with mobility and needing to ask and fine tune needs...just to sit up and eat or do basic things.

Having help with their interests and 'life' is not even on the chart for many so TV is watched or they're stuck out of luck...unless there are ways to help them be engaged and people really tending to them...But important to warn many caregivers that 'disrespect, allegations, other workers being mean-spirited or worse' are all part of the rollercoaster ride.

So more planning is needed to avoid that (and even abuse from agencies or higher ups...families, friends and basically the 'public...' It can get pretty interesting and miserable, but still if people care about others, they can try to help the next needy person with more precautions...still 'no guarantees' because mental mix-ups are commonplace with patients and their allies...even if not trying to be off base, they often are for 'unknown reasons'.

So again more support from other arenas are critical because too many people allow bullying and put-downs, threats of calling police and going to court and actual episodes of that which are rather harrowing but largely ridiculous when there is no problem other than a patient feeling paranoid due to their own mindset (and other co-workers or helpers also feeling confused or maybe eager to bully others using that arena to spin tales of strange and worrisome interpretations of 'something said, done, not said or not done and so on...')

t's hard to learn about such things but apparently that and 'not being paid' in full or with any plan to compensate someone even with clear accounting is Commonplace. So yet more efforts need to be made for those factors...

Still, if someone's tough and devoted, that won't knock them down enough to keep them from helping yet another person in need...and that can be rather encouraging for the worker (paid or not) but again, no guarantees that even knowing someone has been through hell that next needy person won't pull more of the same knowingly or not. See the pattern?

A bit like parenting a problem child or with a challenging partner. yet taking on more responsibilities along those lines..the people in society who are charged with helping 'untie those knots' or legal marriage for people who have kids (and even those without) often side with the aggressor...and make a mess and a dangerous situation of coercive control or abuse, much worse.

Not that it makes sense...but 'follow the money' and the underpinnings of the patterns of the controlling players (yes in many fields and the mandates that favor or allow for abuse...) and the outcomes are terribly predictable not in favor of the devoted caregivers or protectors of minors and even pets.