Regarding Rosewood, the staff is pleasant. The P.T dept. is very good and the meals are good. The…read moreproblem lies with the fact that they have few workers to take proper care of patients. The administration makes sure they have a very nice and comfortable office as all administration's do. The facility is not the same, clean, and nice facility that it once was. It seems a bit dirty, that nursing home smell is distinct. Another issue is that some of the CNA's have little social graces and lack any intelligence.(But again that seems to happen in many nursing homes). I realize it is a very difficult job but if a person can't handle it don't go into it. Some staff talk down to residents as if they are 2 yr. olds need of punishment. I want to remind them they are not the resident's mother's and to try to use respect. Surely, someone has taught them. The residents may wait some time to go to the bathroom and they may ask for a simple aspirin and never get it. The rivalry between shifts goes on like immature idiots.(But that seems to be common practice in hospitals and all nursing homes). Patients in this home and many like it are more likely to experience contaminated infections like Clostridium difficile, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other communicable disease and serious blood-borne infections. Because of that, the nursing staff is required to follow procedures and protocols that ensure residents are protected from cross-contamination. Unfortunately, not all nursing homes adequately train and continuously monitor the actions of their Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and Certified Nursing Assistants, which is often highly detrimental to the well-being of patients They do a lot of covering up for errors as most nursing homes and many hospitals do. I don't see too many people getting better. It certainly hasn't happened in the case of my wife. She was worse. The phrase "respect your elders" is ingrained in most minds at a young age. This phrase, however, has been lost somewhere. A lack of respect for the elderly is especially present in the quality of health care they receive. Despite this issue, the current law mandating many necessary workers in nursing homes does little to improve the situation. It states, "The facility must have sufficient nursing staff to provide nursing and related services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychological well-being of each resident as determined by resident assessments and individual plans of care" (Miranda, 2005). This statement is very ambiguous and leaves much to the interpretation of the administration of each nursing home, resulting in many situations of insufficient staffing. Some help have a nasty habit of discussing the residents in front of them as the resident was part of the brainless dead. They are not set up for short-term rehabilitation. They claim to be but it is still a nursing home. Now, I'm not saying all staff is bad because they are not. They are overworked and underpaid. I am saying the policies need to be changed and updates need be implemented. Communication is lacking. Nursing Homes in this country have a long way to go. They are more concerned with making money and appearing to look good for the public. A severe problem with this task falling in the hands of the administration lies in the fact that "among administrators, very few are certified, and without qualified leadership quality initiatives are harder to sustain" (Clemmit, 2006, p. 849). Also, many nursing homes do not want to pay and ensure additional employees. Instead, they choose to run their staff on the bare minimum. It is clear that some sort of policy change is extremely necessary.