Minnesota Nursing Assistant's Theory to Good Resident Behavior: Beat Them Until They Are Nice to Us
On June 11, 2008, a facility staff member at Good Sam Society Windom observed a nursing assistant punch a resident on his collar bone with a closed fist. On June 22, 2008, the same nursing assistant was "rough" with the same resident when washing his face. The resident yelled and hit the assistant on the leg. The nursing assistant stepped back from the resident's bed, threw her arms up, and hit the resident's chest with a closed fist. The assistant said there was no reason the resident should be hitting the staff and that is why she hit him saying "maybe then he'll learn to be nice to us". She was suspended on June 25, 2008 and terminated on July 1, 2008.
The nursing assistant was charged with two counts of criminal abuse by a caregiver. She justified her actions to co-workers because the resident hit her all the time.
