4 steps toward slaying the zombies in your nursing home
They’re everywhere — in your billing department, food services, human resources or janitorial — and they’re secretly sabotaging your nursing home, one day at a time. We all know some.
They’re everywhere — in your billing department, food services, human resources or janitorial — and they’re secretly sabotaging your nursing home, one day at a time. We all know some.
You know, it’s really all how you look at things. We all have days that stink, but spinning the situation differently can change how we deal with apparent downers.
I have to admit that this vilest of seasons, winter, can be a useful teacher, meting out stern but valuable lessons about life, and of course, long-term care.
Newt Gingrich tells long-term care providers not to wait for the government to fix their staffing challenges. He also claims some relatively easy solutions are at operators’ fingertips.
Legislation introduced in the House last week will aim to shore up the nation’s long-term care workforce with increased investment in training and a focus on caregivers in rural areas.
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?
The youngest generation of employees entering the long-term care workforce will affect professional attitudes and policies profoundly. And that’s not entirely a bad thing. Just don’t take your eye off your non-millennial employees’ well-being as well.
It’s a disquieting visual I can’t quite get out of my mind — a single hiking boot hanging from a trail sign. Even you, a crisis-tested long-term care professional, might feel surprised and uneasy.
Like observers of a mother driving herself to exhaustion and sickness by taking care of her children day after day, U.S. providers are seeing measured declines in their caregivers. The numbers reveal just how bad it is.
I think we’ve all had days where we come home from work and want to hide under the covers. We’ve also had days when we feel on top of the world. They key, I recently learned, is knowing how to become a resilient leader.