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Memorial Day BBQ at Dodge Park
Life Changers – My Experience At Dodge Park – Employee Composition Contest
This month we started a new monthly composition contest between all Dodge Park employees. In this contest all employee (if wishing to participate) need to write about their unique experience at Dodge Park and how the work and/or residents touch their heart. The winner of this first contest is Bridget T.
Here is the first one:
Relationships play a major role in dealing with persons of all classes. This also applies to residents of our rest home, though they have been affected by some physical or mental disorder. It was a challenge when I was put in charge of resident Gloria but this brought a change in my life.
My prayers for her brought a divine intervention which I now notice in her behavior and friendly attitude towards me during the period of eight hours we spend together in this rest home. We exercise, share love and have fun, I’ve gotten to know her likes and dislikes. She enjoys baby treatment and companionship while she walks up and down the halls of the building. This also helps me to lose weight and exercise my legs. There is now pleasure and joy in attending her. I sometimes reach home tired and sleepy which makes me rest well and ready for the next days job.
My experience in caring for resident Gloria has taught me that any duty one undertakes needs a display of respect, compassion and a practice of the Golden Rule – do to others as you would have them do to you. One should perform an assigned duty as if he/she is the owner of the rest home. When you look at things in that way you will be satisfied within yourself enjoying the task. Dealing with a difficult resident needs patience, love and respect to make each resident feel important. They need to be treated like any one of us. Equality in dealing with residents makes tasks easy and perfectly done according to performance standards.
Bridget T. – Aide
Study Reveals Most Powerful Motivators for Getting Flu Shot
A new study describes the factors that are most commonly associated with health care workers who get the influenza vaccine. Researchers suggest that by targeting certain predictors, vaccination will become more likely among health care workers.
Researchers reviewed 13 studies that recorded data from almost 85,000 health care workers. The researchers studied a variety of factors that influenced health care workers’ likelihood of receiving the flu vaccine. According to a study, published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the strongest predictors of vaccination are:
1.Believing that flu prevention is important
2.Having a family that is usually vaccinated
3.Being willing to prevent influenza transmission
4.Believing that influenza is highly contagious
5.Knowing that the vaccine is effective
“Our findings are consistent with the results of previous reviews, which also suggested that raising awareness about vaccine effectiveness and the risks of influenza makes vaccination more likely to be accepted,” the authors wrote.
Men were more likely to receive the vaccine than women, and nurses were less likely than doctors to get the shot. Factors, like the health care worker’s amount of direct patient contact or willingness to protect at risk patients from complications from the flu, had little impact on whether the worker received the vaccination.
Special Arts and Crafts Program at Dodge Park Rest Home
Join our residents and your loved one for a special arts and crafts program at Dodge Park Rest Home, hosted by Home Depot of Worcester. Bring friends, family and most importantly, the grandchildren for a special afternoon of fun, interaction and creativity.
