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.
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Look on the bright side
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.
LTC 2018 — an icy epiphany
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.
Gingrich: Providers able to fix workforce problems themselves
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.
New bill seeks to bolster LTC workforce with grants, awards program
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.
It’s time to talk about long-term care’s diversity problem
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?
Workforce pressures: It’s not about just millennials
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.
Lessons from an orphan
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.
Who takes care of the healthcare worker?
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.
Bouncing back, bouncing forward, and how about just bouncing?
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.
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