Contact Paula about your specific consulting needs and she can develop a customized solution for you.  Consulting packages may also include ongoing or on-call coaching and followup through visits, email, and/or phone contact.  Delivery of training and time requirements are flexible and customizable.

 

1. Activity Program Development – New Facilities
2. New Recreation Director and Staff Training
3. Activity Programming
4. One-to-one Programming
5. Special Needs Programming
6. Dementia Programming
7. Sensory Programming
8. Volunteer Programming
9. Spiritual Care Programming
10. Person-Centered Care
11. Culture Change
12. Documentation
13. Strategic Planning & Marketing
14. Care Planning
15. Survey Preparation
16. Correcting Activity Citations
17. Systems, Policy, and Procedure Development
18. Behavior Management
19. Quality Improvement

 

1. “That’s Not My Job – Putting the ME back in Team” - Develop leadership and team-building skills in frontline, supervisory staff, and management, by promoting the personal recognition of responsibility, integrity, and commitment within the individual, including practical application in the workplace.

2. “Their Life, Their Care, Their Way – Delivering the ‘Person-Centered Care’ Promise”  - Designed to train staff on the implementation of “My Life, My Care, My Way” into their specific resident population.  Training can be packaged to include follow-up consulting as well as access to trainer by telephone.

3. “Thinking Outside The Long-Term Care Box” - Training teaches multi-disciplinary, multi-level, staff and management, tools to promote and develop innovative and creative solutions for long-term care issues.

 

4. “Finding the Spirit in Caregiving, The Difference between Spiritual Care and Religion” - An in-service designed to educate staff on the importance of spiritual care in the aging population and recognize the difference between spirituality and religion to provide a broader scope of services.

5. “We Paid How Much for Staff Training? – How to Get and Utilize the Training You Pay For” (Intended for supervisors and management staff).  Steps and strategies to selecting and creating the most effective and affordable staff trainings and orientations, while eliminating staff “check out” and virtually wasting valuable and often limited staff training resources.

6. “Got A Leader? - Leading From the Bottom Rung of the Ladder” - Designed to empower frontline staff to take an active role in their workplace and instill pride in the work they do by identifying and developing leadership skills.

7. “WE Ain’t Your Grandmother’s Nursing Home – Marketing for a Change In Public Opinion”
(Intended for supervisors and management staff)  Marketing is much more then an advertisement in a newspaper.  Promotes creative marketing strategies intended to address the negative beliefs and stereotypes that exist in the public about long-term care.

8. “Hope With a Plan – Nurturing Hope Through Responsible Planning” - Focuses on the concept of, and the importance of, person-centered care for those living with dementia. Options for planning, communication strategies, and goal setting are discussed.

 

Design your own In-service. Choose the topics you want and Paula will create a powerful, customized in-service to meet your needs.

Possible Topics:
1. Spiritual Care
2. Activity Calendar Overhaul
3. Team Building
4. Staff Turnover
5. Leadership Training
6. Respect in the Workplace
7. Motivation
8. Organization
9. Communication
10. Responsibility
11. Commitment
12. Integrity
13. Compassionate Caregiving
14. Attitude
15. Adapting to Change
16. Any topic listed under Consulting Services
And more…

 

 

2. “Take This Job and Love It – How to Love Your Job, No Matter What You Do” - Motivational in nature, this keynote focuses on the underlying reasons for job dissatisfaction and delivers tools and humor to change complaining into productivity. A great precursor to the training program, “Who’s Responsible – Putting the ME back in Team”.

3. “I’m Not Dead Yet - Living-Until-End-of-Life Care” - Motivational, humorous, and up-front look at the multifaceted, often challenging, world of care giving; instills compassion for the care receiver as well as the caregiver. 

 

 

 

Paula can provide books, CDs and products to enhance your event. Products can also be purchased ahead of the event so as to provide a gift for each participant.