Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), they deliver messages, serve meals, clean rooms, make beds, take a patient‘s pulse or blood pressure, give routine medications or take patients for treatments or test (Bureau of Labor Statistics. gov). How does one place a price on the care of your loved ones? Granted that there are 609,440 nursing aides employed across the country as of May 2009, making a moderate annual wage of $23,380 compared to the LPN making $41,310 and the registered nurse $57,830, here we are looking at a view from the bottom of the pit. The workers in nursing homes and long-term care facilities are under paid for the amount of work they are expected in order to maintain adequate care about the aging community. In a nutshell, CNAs spend more time with the patients then the Nurse. Where I work the nurse depends more on the PCT to provide their patient with care and constant contact with the patients then the nurse does in their daily rounding. Long-Term Care salary is $26,837 with a range usually between $23,704-$30,983(Salary.com)
Under those, circumstances, it is said that we are looking at "a place of scarcity and fear," which has led to a flawed health care model (). It is impossible to encounter the changes that the demographic phenomenon is about to place increasing demands on those who care for our growing elderly population, the impact the health care industry. Changing the level of provaty in order for a patient to qualify for help in