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Why automation is the key to efficient and effective care management 

AlayaCare

Tools that optimize caregiver schedules can help remove human errors, increase efficiency, and reduce the possibility of missed or late visits. Enhanced communication There are different ways to make sure your caregivers are providing effective communication with your clients.

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Maintaining a Relationship with your Loved One in a Facility during COVID-19.

Hospice 101

Copy a poem, cut out an article from a magazine (even if it is an older magazine in your home), or a clipping from a newspaper. Visit [link] for more information about hospice, and/or to access other hospice blogs and articles. Feeling more creative? Draw or color a picture and mail it to your loved one. Start this today!

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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

For another nurse, her career nutrition means claiming her place as a dancer, learning to integrate her love of dance with her love of being a caregiver, perhaps through offering movement classes for nurses in need of self-care. Your nursing career nutrition may be spiritual, emotional, intellectual, psychological, or none of the above.

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10 Strategies for Feeding the Nurse's Inner Life

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

While I do read books (and articles, blog posts, etc) on these subjects, I've been trying to make sure I keep my reading list diverse. As natural (and sometimes compulsive) caregivers, nurses spend so much time caring for others (in and out of the workplace) that they don't have the skill of tending to and honoring their own needs.

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Doing Your Inner Work as a Nurse

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Pushing Back and Climbing Up Nurses are fierce caregivers and defenders of the wellness of others. Wellness can be an uphill climb when we're wired to be selfless caregivers. As Saul Bellow's beloved character Herzog once said in the novel of the same name: " On the knees of your soul? Might as well be useful and scrub the floor."

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

And I knew that the training for the caregiver’s aids and CNAs would be what suffered. So I, I sat down at my dining room table and gave birth to this business plan for a monthly subscription for caregiver training. And then now that’s passed down to caregivers in a lot of settings, right?

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10 Skincare Tips for Seniors

Seniority, the Mavencare Blog

To help both seniors and caregivers, we’ve put together a list of the top 10 tips to know when caring for senior skin. Every month, seniors - or their loved one or a caregiver - should look over their skin for signs of skin cancer, paying close attention to birthmarks and moles. Gently cleanse. Check in with your skin.