Yeah, I was Chicagoland long term as well. The aides were making 10-12, halfway through my time they stopped hiring only CNA certified anymore, the company would just hire anyone and put them through computer module training. Quality of staff really went downhill.

Then they wanted to introduce further tiers of training for aide staff, I left before then and don't know what happened but some of their ideas included letting aides do Medpass (including peg tube stuff), stuff like cathing, trach suction and vitals. Now I now CNA's do vitals but some of these people I remember couldn't even differentiate the SPO2 from the heart rate on monitors after the training so god help those residents.

Made me feel reeaaaaally weireded out as a licensed nurse. Like what is the master plan? 1 nurse and the rest of the staff all techs? The accountants would love that.

An yeah when the minimum wage goes up to $15, that means $15 drooling in the corner at Walmart, gonna have to incentive somebody to bust their as as an aide/tech at that point. Not to mention wage compression for those nurses / people who had raises are now essentially bottomed out.

Future just looks kinda messy IMO.