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RN Patient Advocate
Important Tips For Home Set-Up To Accommodate Vision Loss
The Braille Institute of America knows every 7 minutes someone in the U.S. loses their sight, often as a part of the aging process. Here are 10 essential tips for setting up a home, or accommodating a visiting person with limited vision. It's information we can all...
Alternative, Integrative, Holistic… Patient Advocates Can Help You Sort Through The Confusion
The term "Alternative Medicine" is frequently used incorrectly. The true definition is 'any non-conventional intervention that is used INSTEAD OF conventional treatments, NOT in conjunction with them'. This article does a good job of distinguishing and explaining many...
How Patient Advocates Can Help You And Your Company
Engaging an independent patient advocate offers you and your employees expert counsel and important benefits.
Pharmacists Speak Out About Too Many Meds at End of Life
Excellent article that addresses what I frequently encounter as an RN Patient Advocate. Key points are to talk to patients about their medication goals, assess medication appropriateness on a regular basis, engage pharmacists to do comprehensive medication reviews,...
How An RN Patient Advocate Can Manage Post-Acute Care
Patients and families are frequently scared and confused about the post-acute plan of care. Unfortunately, poor communication within facilities, and across providers is often the rule, rather than the exception. Encourage patients and family members to engage a...
Improv To Improve Heathcare
Employee Engagement Also Applies to Employer Engagement
Too often I've seen executives not engaging in the "soft skills" of leadership, and missing the importance of leading by example. They expect company managers to "know" how to do what they're being directed to do. How is your company helping to build leadership?...
Improv Skills to Boost Workplace Communication, Teamwork and Resiliency
"...improvisers are taught that confidence, agreement, attentive listening and authenticity are the backbone of a solid performance." Medical Improv is one of the featured areas at Duke University. It's not about comedy or stage performance, but it's a heck of a lot...
Communication and Collaboration Needs in Home Based Care
As an independent RN Patient Advocate I collaborate with home health, home care, skilled care, families, and all the healthcare providers in between. I see a lack of respect everywhere I turn, and caregivers (hospital and home) that feel squeezed between...
Improv Communication Tools for the World of Dementia
For many years the dementia "therapy" of choice was to continuously reorient the individual to person, time, and place. Whether you're a professional caregiver, or the most loving, attentive family member, it's an exhausting strategy... and it ultimately doesn't...
Medical Improv Boosts Healthcare Communication, Quality, Safety, & Patient Satisfaction
Health practitioners are increasingly being evaluated for their ability to accept feedback, adapt to change, handle stressful situations and establish rapport. Medical Improv builds the skills needed to handle these difficult situations, interact with diverse...
Self Care For Health Proffesionals
Whole-Person Well-Being is the Goal!
Since starting my RN Patient Advocacy practice in 2010, the goal for my patient-clients is for holistic health, and whole-person well-being. This always includes consideration for the mental, emotional, spiritual, environmental, social, and physical aspects of their...
#1 Soft Skill for Workplace Communication and Collaboration
Building empathy in the workplace is my number one goal when colleagues and I use improvisational theater tools in on-site, face-to-face workshops. It's not about performing or comedy; it's about broadening the soft skills of emotional intelligence. Developing...
Resilience and Self-Care
Resilience isn't just for dealing with the tough times. We can learn and build new ways of facing personal and professional challenges. Consider these strategies... linkedin.com How to Build a Stronger Work Life: Reconsider Resilience Dr. Marla Gottschalk Published...
Health Professionals as Patients: Collaborating for Our Holistic Health
A new advocacy client of mine is a MD. His stress levels have been off the chart, and his self-care skills negligible. As a RN Patient Advocate, I helped navigate his 1.5 week hospitalization, and was present for his discharge to home. I've suggested an...
Employee Engagement Also Applies to Employer Engagement
Too often I've seen executives not engaging in the "soft skills" of leadership, and missing the importance of leading by example. They expect company managers to "know" how to do what they're being directed to do. How is your company helping to build leadership?...