Ok, everyone probably likes a small amount of drama here and there, because it spices things up a little. But when drama is the main ingredient in your workplace culture,…
Month: June 2019
Depressed Healthcare Professionals: A Serious and Growing Problem
Healthcare professionals, like doctors, nurses and others, are human and experience everything any other person would, including depression, burnout and suicidal thoughts and actions. They are just as vulnerable, if…
De-Escalation in Senior Care
When I was a younger professional, and just after receiving my Master’s Degree, I took a position as a therapist in a group home for seriously mentally ill, criminal adolescents.…
Traumatic Loss: What it is and How to Recover
A fatal accident. Another teen takes his or her life. A heroin overdose. The victim of a drive-by shooting. Another high school massacre. No one anticipates these and no one…
Psychosocial Care
Nursing care, passing medication, nutrition and hydration and physical and occupational therapy are all necessary components of good care. What goes on between these aspects of care is also very…
Alzheimer’s Disease: The Result of the Brain Trying to Protect Itself
Another trip to the bookstore; another stack of books purchased and ready to be consumed. This trip yields books on gut health, eating to avoid dementia, and of course, Alzheimer’s…