Positivity is not just an attitude — it’s an action.
A survey and regulatory review of 2013
By
Steven Littlehale
Feb 24, 2014
It’s important to do a review that considers your region and state. Identify how complaints and care deficiencies were handled last year.
Coping with a death too soon
By
John O'Connor
Feb 17, 2012
You will not last long in this field unless you learn how to deal with dying and death. They are inescapable realities in a profession where most customers are old and sick. But there is no way to be completely...
Congress improves its writing skills
By
Liza Berger
Sep 29, 2010
It sounds like a set-up for a punch line. The Senate this week passed the Plain Writing Act of 2010. Plain Writing Act? So what do we have now? Inscrutable, government-speak?
Maybe the Gray Lady needs an eye exam?
By
John O'Connor
May 11, 2020
There’s no arguing this: The so-called newspaper of record sure has it in for nursing homes.
Would you crash a word diet?
By
Julie Thorson
Jan 30, 2019
What if every day we were only allotted so many words to maintain a healthy communication style? How would we use those words? Would our word diet change at work?
Knitting a team
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 18, 2024
I can still remember the clicking of needles and the feeling of chunky strands of cotton passing silently between my fingers. It was early in my elementary school epoch, and we tiny people sat cross-legged...
Cowboy wisdom — an article not about COVID
By
Martie Moore
Aug 24, 2020
How you lead might have its roots back more than a century to the old West and life on the cattle-driving plains.
New night shift study sounds the alarm
Jan 10, 2018
Over the years, I’ve heard what seems like every possible explanation for cancer. Sometimes it’s cancer patients blaming themselves through questionable science — “I was too stressed”...
Driving out loneliness through intergenerational relationships
By
Angie McAllister
Aug 08, 2016
Growing up, I had the blessing to spend large amounts of time with my grandmother.