Today,
I figured that I would write about if I was an in-home aide. Some aides drive
me crazy and get on my nerves in fact, a lot do. If I was an aide in someone’s
home; I would like to think that I would not be like others. I wouldn’t call my
people “patients”; I would call “my clients” and would try not to make them
feel patients. I would do my best to do everything whatever they want/need me
to and in the way they like it be done without complaining or a sigh. I would
do whatever they want/need no matter what the regulations are and whether I was
allowed or not. I would be their friend if they want me to and leave them alone
if they want to have their own time by themselves but I would try not making it
uncomfortable or tension between us. I wouldn’t do stuff for myself like
opening the windows if I was warm unless they ask me to. I wouldn’t make them
to do whatever they don’t want to even that task was in their paper works. If I
get tired to be at a particular house, I would change clients instead of making
tension for them. What would you do if you were an in-home nursing aide?
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My wife has a very effective technique for teaching people who have in-house aides how to manage their own care. Besides just talking to them about what they have the right to do and how to do it, she role plays. She or I play the role of bag bad aide telling meek miss "patient" when to go to bed (for example). Miss "patient" becomes much less meek and says calmly, but in all sincerity, "This is my home and I will go to bed when I want to." or, "This is my home and I'm going to bed at 10 o'clock." Ideally, you should talk it over with the agency rep or the county case manager or the aide's boss, so that the aide does have ample time to get her work done and put the person to bed too. They will take charge of your life if you let them. However you have the right to change care providers if you wish. And don't let them tell you that you have to wait until the current contract is up. You can fire them at any time and find a new one. If you know someone who has a provider they really like call the company and ask them to come over and talk to you. Sometimes, out of professional courtesy, that new company will not talk to you unless you have already given the current provider a certain number of days notice or your contract with them is about to run out. But my point is that if you become know to your provider as one who demands independence, the provider will usually forewarn any new aides that you will tell them when you want to eat, what to eat, when to go to bed and get up, etc. You are a case cow for the provider and they do not want to lose you, they will usually shape up, if not, fire them.
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