As our long-stay residents age in place, often we see them get to a point where we begin to notice that they are reducing their intake. Often, they are prescribed less-than-desirable-tasting supplements....
Bed A and Bed B are people!
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Oct 28, 2014
As a Charlton Heston movie once illustrated in an indirect way, it’s important to know about the lives of who is living in our home. It’s about relationships, not about heads in the beds.
Just ask Petraeus
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Mar 12, 2013
Well, it wasn’t easy to get there, but we have a new CIA director sworn in. With John Brennan taking over the spy agency, now’s a good time to think back to what happened to his predecessor,...
Why I love TV’s Nurse Jackie
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Oct 02, 2012
So we all know that nurse have a love-hate relationship with “medical shows” on TV. The good news is there is at least one thing to love.
Is there an ‘I’ in team?
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 05, 2019
We’ve all heard it: “There is no ‘I’ in team.” But I challenge that.
Fear of intimacy
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 07, 2017
Intimacy … I’m not writing about where one partner is hounding the other about fear of opening up and getting close. What do they say — “It’s me, not you”? What I am writing...
The transformative power of happiness
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Mar 29, 2022
It seems almost daily we are hit by news where someone or something is trying to rob us of our happiness. We barely survived the pandemic while losing our staff and having to deal with an agency that will...
I pay dead people
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 12, 2013
On Oct. 31 (an ironic coincidence?) a report from the Office of inspector General frighteningly said Medicare paid some $23 million in benefits for more than 17,000 dead people in 2011. And my husband...
Test and tests and tests… there’s failure here
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Mar 01, 2022
Let’s face it. Unless you’re the character Sheldon from the show “The Big Bang Theory” or “Young Sheldon,” most of us really hate to take tests. So, those of us in this profession got a little...
Ignoring the old impulses
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Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 18, 2017
So, I have this song from Disney’s animated film “Frozen” stuck in my head. The part of the song that goes, “Let it go, let it go …” See, that’s how I feel about...