My mistake was expecting and trusting management to properly handle the abuse of medications and residents. After the first event I should have reported it to DAD's rather going through the chain of management hoping it would stop while putting the other residents at risk of becoming the staff members victims. Would you know it she quit and did a no call no show when I made it known I was taking it higher! And standing my ground! Still nothing was ever done and there were no protocols to prevent it from happening again. I was told to never speak of it again; except the pattern was continued by another co-worker who was a sister of management. The ending result; they did nothing! So I quit! Called the police and DAD's. My mistake was not calling sooner!

Watch your back. If you see evidence of abuse report it, if nothing is done do not hesitate turn it into DAD's immediately! There are times I regret not telling the residents family of the ill acts towards their loved ones. After all they are trusting you to care for their loved ones to love and protect them!

The day I called the police to report the abuse and I called DAD's, I just couldn't take it anymore the pattern continued and management refused to do anything about it instead they mocked me laughing and saying the police could care less about a resident being abused. That; that broke me!

The only co-workers that got angry with me were those who knew they were doing ill acts towards the residents. No family member ever spoke ill towards me nor did they think ill of me, if they had they would have told me.

I loved my residents! Every day was a blessing never knowing what to expect.