Staff not adhering to government guidance

[milkysmum]

I run a nursing home and have been made aware lots of my care Assistants are not adhering to social distancing outside of work ( still visiting friends and family, still looking after grandchildren of their own keyworker children etc..) and at the same time they are furious that some of our residents are not adhering to guidance and therefore putting them at increased risk! Am I being unreasonable to expect my staff to follow the current guidance if they are coming into work to support vulnerable adults in a care setting?

YADNBU to expect it but you have no way of policing it unfortunately. It's sad that so many people put their own selfish desires about seeing family and friends ahead of the health and safety of others.

I'm just so frustrated. We are a mental health service, the staff are complaining that I am not 'making the service users comply' but then they are not complying themselves as feel they can justify their own breeches.
I want to tell them either follow the guidance to help keep everyone safe or I don't want them in work but worried I'll have no staff team left!!

Im shocked that people are STILL going to visit friends and family. What will it take for people to realise the severity of this? Hundreds are dying everyday, so many healthy people are losing their lives. Some people are so selfish.

You need to talk to them and outline the possibility of them putting the residents at risk. We've lost one person in a nursing home, as there are no visitors allowed and from tracing it turns out 2 carers were still carrying on as normal outside. It now turns out that many of the residents have contracted covid and there are a number of staff ill too. This was down to 2 people. It spreads like wildfire amongst nursing home residents.

Sit them all down and without singling people out, have an intense and dare I say it, emotionally-charged meeting about what is happening in the world, why social distancing is important, and what will happen if just one person flouts the rules and brings it into a home of vulnerable people.

It might just resonate.

Thank you for validating my position. Each one of them feels their own reason is justified and they seem unable to really see the concern. They are though concerned that some of our residents are still going out and therefore putting them at risk! ( as I've said we are a mental health home, not elderly so it's very difficult to get residents to adhere to the guidance also).
I'll be honest I know very few people who are adhering in general, I feel quite alone almost in doing so, my family etc. all think I'm over reacting. Many people have offered to look after my two primary school aged children for me and my sister finds an excuse to go to town every single day because she is bored! Honestly how will we ever get out of lock down when nobody is actually adhering to lock down!?