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Skilled Nursing Support is ready to help your facility meet your 2023 Goals
Companies in the long term care industry are continuing to face the challenge of recruiting experienced MDS Coordinators. This is making it difficult to guarantee that your MDS process is as successful as it can be. Unfortunately, if your MDS is not coded correctly then other areas are affected. You may have poor Quality Measure…
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Holiday Wishes
What are your facilities holiday Wishes? Is it no MMQ ,MDS , QM or staff Glitches Do you wish for Dietary staff to be serving the best meal Spreading Holiday cheer which makes residents heal. Do you want to walk around and see satisfied staff As well as recreation providing residents with a good laugh…
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The many faces, do you really see me for me?
Today at work was a day with both many calls and work expectations. I met with staff who appear to be doing ok, but are they really? Do we really know what someone is thinking or the life stresses they have prior to coming to work. We wear masks at work which makes it even…
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Working in Long Term Care and Holidays
Residents come first The Holidays are a time when family and friends try to gather with each other and celebrate the season. This is a season of togetherness, love, family celebrations, bonding with friends and good cheer. Sounds wonderful and it is wonderful if you are able to do all of that. Long term care…
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Trying to be a leader that is trying to take care of those in your charge.
What does that mean for you when you read this statement? How are you able to do that in this climate of seasoned staff retiring or changing careers? Managing and meeting Employer’s goals was much easier earlier in my career when I had Nurses who had longevity and experience in long term care. I may…
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Approaching Monday. How can leadership help a tired nurse be ready to meet the challenges of the new week?
I am a manager who functions at a Regional level. My Mondays begin by reviewing each of my assigned facilities to assess what processes the nurses were able to complete. What may be needed for Monday and for the rest of the week. How I relay the results of that assessment can either cause more…
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December is a time to Reflect if I enhanced my Resident’s lives
know your purpose and your why , this is mine When you help me each day get ready, who do you see? Am I a stranger or am I still Me? Somedays I may know who you are But others I may think you are bizarre On these days, please don’t leave me Because you…
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It’s Official Skilled Nursing Support is a registered LLC
Today, I received my official business license for Skilled Nursing Support. It is really special that it arrived today because it happens to be the same day that my mom passed when I was 19 years old. Now you may be thinking, how is that something to celebrate? It is, because I believe it is…
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“Just Be”
What does it mean to you as a nurse when you hear just be? It may mean notice the now. It may mean relax and enjoy the present. It may mean this shift is really hard and you need to breathe. It may mean you just lost a patient and you just need to take…
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Thank You to all of the medical professionals who worked on Thanksgiving Day
I am one of the fortunate nurses who had Thanksgiving day as well as today as a scheduled day off. If you are a nurse or Healthcare professional you may of worked yesterday. I noticed most of the retail shops and service industries were closed on my drive to my to where I was celebrating…