Wow - that's horrible that care has gotten so rotten in the 20yrs since I was a CNA. I did a lot of the showers n bed baths or spa baths or just changes - solo - whether the people were combative n not independently mobile or not - because we had 60 residents and were lucky to have 4 people on a shift. So yea I know what you are going through. I had a friend that was a CNA about 10yrs ago telling me about a lift machine they use - I told him wow .. we just put a transfer belt around them, braced our knee's around theirs ... and we transferred them. He was like "well yea - but this fellow was 'large' you could not have done that" .. I said, it was all we had - we did it. And honestly, we did ... we even learned how to do without the transfer belt if one was not on the floor for some reason. So yea, I have to agree with you - it must be becoming a lost art, or maybe a lack of compassion. I believe CNA type work is mostly about compassion and saw many who did not have compassion when I was working and even then I saw a huge difference in quality.