Recent research from a long-term care employee research group has found first-year workers in the sector are nearly 10% more engaged that workers who have been at their jobs for more than a year. Managers...
Your future ratings rest in residents’ hands
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Jan 31, 2017
Any news story that heralds a something as the “next frontier” in healthcare is probably worth clicking on, right?
Your FitBit might just save your life — and your residents’
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Jan 24, 2017
Even though I fell off the wearable fitness monitor bandwagon, recent research from the Stanford University School of Medicine might just serve as the incentive I need to jump back on it.
Keep your goals for 2017 short and tweet
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Jan 17, 2017
You could write out a long list of personal or work-related goals for 2017 to cover all your bases, but you run the risk of getting overwhelmed or focusing on some goals over others. Instead, take the...
Read all about it: Journalists writing residents’ stories leads to success
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Jan 10, 2017
There’s a question that’s key to the long-term care industry but all too often — for a variety of reasons — goes unanswered: Who were your residents before they became your residents?
Some hot news for a cold day
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Dec 20, 2016
If you can somehow find your way to a sauna amid this harsh winter weather striking most of the country, and continue to do so even in warmer months, there’s good news: Working up a sweat in a sauna...
Nurse Strom and the comment section conundrum
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Dec 13, 2016
It’s very fitting, and not at all surprising to me, that a story on social media comments has stirred up some of most intense reader response I’ve seen on this site in a while.
Find your group, and the health benefits will follow
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Dec 06, 2016
individuals who get involved, and stayed involved, with civic and social groups such as neighborhood watch or volunteer organizations score higher on cognitive tests once they reached middle age. Even...
It’s time to talk about long-term care’s diversity problem
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Nov 08, 2016
Long-term care leadership has a diversity problem. Don’t believe it? Travel to a national long-term care convention and look around — what do the majority of attendees look like?
Getting gritty with the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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Nov 01, 2016
Whatever your workforce issues are, Angela Duckworth, Ph.D., might have just the answer you’re looking for. And it involves a little advice from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.