Nursing Home Employee Arrested After "Prank" Against Patient
News channel 9 in Calhoun, GA has reported that a 20-year-old woman working at a nursing home has been charged with battery after reportedly playing a prank on a resident at the nursing home. According to the report, Christy Myranda Hardin-Simerly placed an 83-year-old resident of the nursing home into a wheelchair and began spinning her around several times.
Hardin-Simerly also poured ice down the woman’s back. The report states that Hardin-Simerly did not stop abusing the victim until the victim complained about the treatment she was receiving from Hardin-Simerly.
This is not the first case of an elderly person suffering abuse at the hands of an employee that thinks they are simply joking around. Incidents in California involved three nursing home employees mistreating several elderly residents in an attempt to prank fellow employees at the facility. Elderly residents of nursing homes are abused and blatantly disrespected on an almost constant basis simply because employees seemingly do not comprehend acting responsibly with the residents. The purpose of a nursing home is to allow elderly people unable to care for themselves to obtain the care they require when they can’t get it anywhere else. Nobody should ever be subjected to poor treatment even if, at first, the perpetrator meant no harm to the victim. It is still extremely disrespectful to the victim, and thus should never happen under any circumstances.
