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Like, in Indiana it's less than 3 full weeks. 30 courses that they expect you to learn in that extremely short time frame. No dementia training requirements. Then they wonder why half these CNAs don't understand so much of wtf they're doing. Idk how many CNAs I've had to actually explain why you wipe front to back and why you don't use such excessive amounts of soap. I literally had to explain why a dementia patient who spoke English as a second language no longer could speak it. They couldn't figure out why people revert back to their first language. 🤦‍♀️

Not to mention, 1 hour for each topic and they think that's sufficient for taking care of people? I didn't even think of this stuff until I read how the US is one of the only countries that allows nurse aids to have such poor and such little training. And we have some of the worst long-term care as a result. That is wild to me. I always felt like our training was way too short because I shouldn't be having to teach people how to wipe an ass. 🤦‍♀️😂 Oh then apparently now they're allowed to do a huge portion of clinicals in a sim lab. Wtaf.

I love using soft pastels but I struggle with the details. If I'm making something that doesn't require much detail, like making a body of water, I can do it. I read that pastel pencils are good for the details. So I want to get some. I'm trying to decide which brand. I love sennelier so much. I use their paint sticks and their oil pastels. I've also got some gallery oil pastels.

I had unison for soft pastels and I love them.

I saw sennelier has pastel pencils but so does FC which are a bit cheaper. I have the white one of theirs I use some.

Has anyone use sennelier pencils? They look like crayons to me but I know they're soft pastel. There's no way you'd be able to sharpen an oil pastel from them. Maybe another brand but not them.

Also, what tools do you use for your pastels to help give your paintings depth?

As someone that advocates like a ridiculous amount for my residents and coworkers, we've been trying to make sure nobody forgets this. If you haven't read about it, look up Talevski V the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County Indiana.

It's a case where an American Senior Communities nursing home abused a dementia patient, shipped him hours away without telling family when they raised concerns, and then tried to argue that abused residents shouldn't be allowed to sue under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987. A federal law that was literally meant to keep residents safer.

American Senior Communities manages over 100 nursing homes/assisted livings in Indiana. Many people think they own them. They don't. The Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County Indiana owns them. Or HHC for short.

HHC is the government entity that runs the health department, the EMS services, etc. Yeah the government owns the nursing homes that are known as the most corrupt nursing homes in Indiana.

Indiana is home of the worst ranked nursing homes in the country despite being the most well funded. Because over 90% of our nursing homes are government owned and they're diverting the funds.

Me and a few others I worked with have made it our goal to make sure everyone knows how corrupt Indiana is with it's nursing homes after realizing this was likely why the state and OSHA gave 0 fucks when we reported neglect so bad that residents wound up in the hospital. Instead American Senior Communities threatens the CNAs and fires the ones who don't sit back and shut up about it.

But this is also a reminder that the entire health department for the state of Maryland is currently being sued by Medicaid recipients for the way they've done nothing to protect nursing home residents. Just thought that was useful info that people should know.

I know I don't know all the laws and stuff, which is mostly why I'm asking here cuz I'm sure it's something I don't understand or know.

But basically, over 90% of our nursing homes are technically government owned. Primarily through county hospitals purchasing them. But the most sketchy one is the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County which isn't a county hospital but just a county government entity that runs the health department, the EMS services, and various other county things.

Just a few years ago they tried to argue, in Talevski V HHC, that the FNHRA wasn't meant to give victims of their abuse the right to sue for that abuse and our AG is a fucking moron who agreed.

But, considering they did this so they could access extra Medicaid funding which they've been found diverting a huge portion of away from nursing homes, how is this legal? I'm sure it's some weird loophole in the law or something.

Granted some of it is not legal and I ended up reporting stuff that got the AG to look into some of the Medicaid fraud not too long ago. But our AG for Indiana seems to just kind of side with whatever they do. Most of our state government actually doesn't seem to give a single flying fuck what these nursing homes do as long as they make money off of it. It's insane and it feels illegal or at least super sketchy AF or am I just a crazy person?