SUBJECT: SNF's AKA Nursing Homes?

I'm a Nurse who works for a Registry. That is a company who sends me to different hospitals and/or nursing homes. I'm curious, what do you think of when you hear about nursing homes. I can tell you that 99.9% of the places I've worked are understaffed......yet it is the nurses who get the most "pooped on". The residents don't appreciate, poor things, most can't even remember who or where they are. The Family members who come in only once a week (if that) yell at the nurses for not doing something (cuz their busy doing something else), Doctors yell at the nurses for "calling them late" or "bothering" them.
THere are a few GREAT places like San Joaquin Gardens Care Center.......professional, awesome place to recover...then there are those that......oh my God Are a Joke ........Its' amazing they are even still open......give me your thoughts................and Yes, I love my job.....just amazed by how people act .......I know.....lots of emotions involved. No Profanity please.

I'm an ICU nurse at a very, very large hospital. I work here because I know how hard it is to work in a place like that.

Although critical nurses are the cream of the crop nurses, the real nurses in my opinion are medsurg and nursing home nurses. No one really realizes how hard this job is!!!

I implore any family member that before they start to complain realize or empathize what goes on 24 hours a day when family is gone.

I am comfortable where I am at, but I know that somewhere out there someone needs to do the "hard job". It sucks!!!! Keep up the faith!!!

I am a nurse who works in acute care, there is no way I could work in sniffs