I'm curious on if there are any other Kiwi Health care workers, or people here who have experienced working in the Health Care setting, what type of setting, population, or enviroment do you work in?
I'm curious because health care settings tend to have their own unique culture, and it takes a certain type of person to be able to work in that setting.
I worked in a long-term care enviroment for two years, and the place was god awful in terms of staffing levels, management, abuse and neglect. I don't feel like typing it out all.
Another thing I have to add is that they made you come in while you were sick, the official policy is that you had to personally make the phone calls yourself to find someone to take your shift, and then to come in if you couldn't, even if you were I'll.
Once, I ended up in the hospital, I immediately took out FMLA because I knew that there would be no way that they would allow me to not come in, regardless on if I was hospitalied or not, the hospital social worker made a call to my supervisor to let her know that I was currently in the hospital, and by the 2nd day, the supervisor would make calls to the hospital social worker to ask if "I would be able to come in and work the shift." Even though I was currently in the hospital, I do believe that they fired her for that, or other reasons because she was let go by the time I got discharged, but those experiences seem to be the norm in long-term care settings.
Now, I work with youth with developmental or severe emotional disabilities, as a behavioral specialist ,I find the therapeutic model of the place I work to be facinating, because from my knowledge it's a new concept.
The company rents a whole house for each client, yes, they actually spend the money to rent a whole house, concerts it to fit their needs, and have staff ratios of at least 1 to 1, or 2 to 1 if the client has aggressive Behaviors and is prone to escalation. The staff essentially performs all the roles that a parent would do, they cook, clean, go to meetings at the school, etc.
It's a fairly new concept, and from what I understand only 5 cities in the US have concepts such as that. I'm curious on if they're going to eventually do lognitudial studies or reseach on this type of environment, because they have essentially 24 hours of intensive therapy, and all of the clients have made drastic improvement in just a period of a few month. For example, commonly they go from having escalations once a day, to going over a month without escalating in a period of 3 months.
The program is very cost extensive, so I doubt it would be commonplace, but I would be fascinated on seeing the long-term cost for clients who are in this setting, and if it decreases as they become more independent.
I'm curious because health care settings tend to have their own unique culture, and it takes a certain type of person to be able to work in that setting.
I worked in a long-term care enviroment for two years, and the place was god awful in terms of staffing levels, management, abuse and neglect. I don't feel like typing it out all.
Another thing I have to add is that they made you come in while you were sick, the official policy is that you had to personally make the phone calls yourself to find someone to take your shift, and then to come in if you couldn't, even if you were I'll.
Once, I ended up in the hospital, I immediately took out FMLA because I knew that there would be no way that they would allow me to not come in, regardless on if I was hospitalied or not, the hospital social worker made a call to my supervisor to let her know that I was currently in the hospital, and by the 2nd day, the supervisor would make calls to the hospital social worker to ask if "I would be able to come in and work the shift." Even though I was currently in the hospital, I do believe that they fired her for that, or other reasons because she was let go by the time I got discharged, but those experiences seem to be the norm in long-term care settings.
Now, I work with youth with developmental or severe emotional disabilities, as a behavioral specialist ,I find the therapeutic model of the place I work to be facinating, because from my knowledge it's a new concept.
The company rents a whole house for each client, yes, they actually spend the money to rent a whole house, concerts it to fit their needs, and have staff ratios of at least 1 to 1, or 2 to 1 if the client has aggressive Behaviors and is prone to escalation. The staff essentially performs all the roles that a parent would do, they cook, clean, go to meetings at the school, etc.
It's a fairly new concept, and from what I understand only 5 cities in the US have concepts such as that. I'm curious on if they're going to eventually do lognitudial studies or reseach on this type of environment, because they have essentially 24 hours of intensive therapy, and all of the clients have made drastic improvement in just a period of a few month. For example, commonly they go from having escalations once a day, to going over a month without escalating in a period of 3 months.
The program is very cost extensive, so I doubt it would be commonplace, but I would be fascinated on seeing the long-term cost for clients who are in this setting, and if it decreases as they become more independent.
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