Tennessee CNA Charged With Abusing Blind Nursing Home Resident
Joyce Stanley, a certified nursing assistant at Etowah Health Care Center in Etowah, Tennessee, was arrested November 5, 2008 and is being held in lieu of $20,000 bond. She faces charges of willful and physical abuse after hitting a seventy-four year old blind woman with a clipboard and an incontinence pad. Ms. Stanley also felt the need to slap the victim and pull her hair. Fortunately, the nursing home resident was not seriously injured. The victim and four workers at the nursing home reported Stanley.
Stanley has been suspended by the facility. She has been a certified nursing assistant since 2002 and is not listed on Tennessee's Abuse Registry, which tracks offenses. Citing a "continued pattern of behavior", a police spokesman maintained that the charges were warranted.
