Being sent to different nursing homes is starting to become the normal way of working now. Charisma from the nursing agency has sent me somewhere different again; and so I’m getting used to starting from scratch every few shifts. This time it was on a unit in a ‘challenging behaviour’ home she was sending me to, and I could almost feel her glee as she imagined them chewing me up and spitting me out. She likes to label does our Charisma, what with her 'EMI' and her 'challenging behaviour', maybe the agency ought to send her on a course labelled 'Challenging ignorance – for dummies who misjudge other people’? So I arrived at this new nursing home and as usual headed straight up to the nurses office. My welcome could only be described as frosty, as this huge bear of a man, wearing a belt full of keys like a prison warden, looked at me in surprise for what seemed like a full minute. He then proceeded to bark at me in a confused way asking who the hell I wa...