Providing care for others is not only emotionally challenging, it can be physically painful. Effectively managing pain involves the use of over-the-counter (OTC) pain relievers and supplements, prescription medications, exercise,…
Category: Health & Wellness
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What Affects Nursing Assistant’s Well Being?
Happy employees make happy residents, right? It has become clearer that attention needs to be paid to the health and wellness of nursing assistants in senior care. They form the…
Have You Ever Wondered How Nursing Assistants Cope with Job Challenges?
A recent study published in The Gerontologist examined the effects of emotional labor, relationships with residents, families and supervisors and how nursing assistants cope with their jobs. Nursing assistants provide…
The Emotional Cost of Caring
As the son of an STNA (State Tested Nursing Assistant), I watched my mother go to work and come home from work each and every day, a little more tired…
Loneliness and Retirement: The Power of Good Relationships
Lots of healthcare professionals will be retiring soon. In fact, over 70,000 registered nurses alone will retire every year in the U.S. While retirement can be a time of great…
Health Benefits of Honey
Our human ancestors ate a wide variety of foods in the form of animals, seafood and plants. There is archaeological evidence scratched on cave walls of humans climbing into trees…