介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G)

介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G) · 04日 6月 2025

In the end, I decided to resign from the nursing home at the end of July 2011. I had started working there in November 2010, so I stayed for nine months. It was my first experience as a caregiver, and I saw the realities of elderly care firsthand. However, my time there was overshadowed by workplace tensions, particularly my conflicts with the chief care staff, leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Even so, the residents were very kind to me, and I learned a lot from them. One of these was a sense...

介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G) · 03日 6月 2025

I think the president’s direct email is a great system, much like the "Meyasu-bako," the suggestion boxes from the Tokugawa period, where lords listened to their subordinates. However, in reality, it seems to exist in name only and hardly functions at all. Since I had already decided to quit when I sent the email, I was not particularly concerned. However, I honestly felt that if the president’s hotline email was merely symbolic and not truly useful, it would be better not to make it...

介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G) · 02日 6月 2025

A few days later, when I went to work as usual, the facility's head suddenly called out to me from behind in an extremely angry voice. She was a woman, and I could hear the anger in her trembling voice. In a harsh tone, she demanded to know why I had not consulted her before emailing the president. I thought to myself that she must have understood how I felt, having endured the chief care staff’s unreasonable behavior, but I had no other choice. At that moment, I realized she already knew...

介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G) · 01日 6月 2025

The email I sent to the president at that time is still carefully stored. According to the record, I sent it at around 1:00 a.m. on May 20, 2011. Below, I have excerpted the important parts. I am scheduled to work six night shifts this month, one of which will be with another part-time night shift worker (from May 28 to 29). Since I do not interact with the residents every day and the other worker is also not a full-time employee (working four times a month), I was a little concerned about our...

介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G) · 31日 5月 2025

The president's hotline email The deputy care staff leader on the floor, who had mentored me, had previously allowed me to rearrange my shifts, and I often saw staff members swapping shifts in my daily work. Therefore, I could not understand why the chief care staff refused to let me change my shift. I felt intense anger toward him and was left with a sense of unease, wondering what to do. The company that operated this nursing home had a slightly unusual feature that set it apart from other...

介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G) · 30日 5月 2025

During the daytime shift, when several nurses are present, I believe it is the caregivers' duty to report emergencies to the nursing staff first. However, during the nighttime shift, when no nurses are available, it is unclear what should be done in the event of an emergency, such as a sudden change in a resident's condition. As a result, caregivers must perform their duties while constantly facing this risk. When I think about the tension and stress involved, I am once again reminded of how...

介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G) · 29日 5月 2025

I felt not only strong anger toward the chief care staff but also saw it as an opportunity to reconsider the night shift work of caregivers in elderly care. As I mentioned earlier, during my night shifts at this nursing home, there was never a time when a resident was seriously injured or went into cardiac arrest, requiring an ambulance. However, that did not mean there were no instances where residents were found collapsed on the floor. Therefore, during the night shift, there was always the...

介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G) · 28日 5月 2025

In late May, when I began working exclusively as a night shift caregiver, I was assigned to a shift where I was paired with another night shift-exclusive worker. Until then, I had always worked the night shift alongside a full-time caregiver who also did night shifts. Because of this, I was able to hear a lot about the users' daytime conditions from my full-time colleagues, which helped me work without feeling anxious. However, at that time, we were both part-time workers assigned exclusively...

介護付き有料老人ホーム G (Nursing home with care services G) · 27日 5月 2025

I think that working the night shift would actually be an easy job unless something significant happens to the users. This is because, under normal circumstances, the users should be fast asleep. If nothing happens, night shift workers have almost nothing to do and can simply watch TV. Of course, there may have been a few peaceful shifts where nothing happened. However, in reality, on a floor with nearly 30 residents, all sorts of situations arose. While I was working the night shift at this...