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Just what kind of legal action do you want to "take so bad"? You want to take legal action because you didn't do your job properly and are now whining about it? Go ahead - get a lawyer. They need funny stories to tell over drinks.

If the resident was "kinda" sitting on the edge of the chair - I would think it would have been your responsibility to realize that isn't the proper seating to be pushed in a wheelchair. I would think it would be your responsibility - as a care giver - to ensure resident is sitting back in the chair properly and is appropriately secured. And to not assume that someone else did that.

Her acting "crazy" and her "insanity" DIDN'T have anything to do with her falling. I expect her sitting on the edge of the chair and the momentum of being moved caused her falling. I would look at it that you effectively propelled her out of the chair.

Your fault. For not taking the extra 10 seconds to assure your patient was safe before being moved. Of course, the supervisors aren't concerned about your silly issues. They are more concerned about their patient falling, getting hurt - or getting hurt enough to die -- and being sued themselves for not providing proper care for the patients they are entrusted with.

I, for one, am very offended by you saying "she doesn't cooperate and acts wild and crazy and that she is insane". Obviously this patient has Alzheimer's or dementia. WHICH IS NOT HER FAULT. Obviously this patient is in a facility that requires CNAs to help care for her. And that care should include simple safety checks. As well as compassion and caring for these patients who are certainly in a situation they would rather not be in. Or who - 20 years ago - never expected to be in. And who - if they could think clearly - would not want to be in.

My sister just died. She was only 58. She had kidney and liver issues. When the poison and ammonia in her blood hit her brain - she was incoherent. At times combative and tried to pull the IVs out. She didn't know who she was, where she was and what was happening to her. That's what happens when the brain goes off-track. If any of the CNAs helping to care for her had acted like you did - with no compassion for her illness and causing her to fall - or in any way hurt herself - I would have had their asses in front of the hospital administrator in a heartbeat.

Don't much care that your arm hurts right now. I imagine your patient isn't going dancing any time soon either. And her life expectancy is likely measured in months or even days. Unlike yours. Your scratches will heal. Her health issues will not. If this patient were my sister, my mother, my grandmother - I would be so vocal about this injustice - you would be looking at unemployment.

What are you talking about - "that type of thing is expected in a nursing home"? Are you saying it's expected that patients will fall out of wheelchairs because the ones charged with caring for them are imcompetent? Do you understand what nursing home means? It's a "home" where sick people go to be "nursed". To be cared for because they cannot care for themselves any longer.

Obviously you are in the wrong job. If this were my relative - you would be out of a job. Legal action would be taken - and you would be on the wrong end of it.

As much as you probably do not want to hear it, "Jo" is correct. Your own account demonstrates the ways in which you were negligent. Your job is to care for people who can be combative and uncooperative. Your job is to ensure their safety and proper care no matter what they throw at you. It's not an easy job, and it's not for everyone. There is no legal action for you to take.