Commentary on: Enabling and empowering certified nursing assistants for quality dementia care

✍ Scribed by Alan Gilloran

• Book ID: 101290690
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 50 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199903)14:3<211::aid-gps973>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

Creative and innovative in ®nding solutions to sometimes complex care questions . Dependability in maintaining a comfortable and intelligible social environment . Flexibility in providing all aspects of care and milieu (environment, surroundings) management . Fairness towards residents whose behavior is sometimes dicult to understand . Enabling residents to do as much as they can for as long as they can . Sensitivity to diversity among residents, families and co-workers . Honesty in acknowledging what we `don't know' as caregivers . Integrity in providing services that are personalized and meaningful to the resident . Loyalty to underlying values that guide day-today care practices . Appreciation of mutuality, or give and take, between caregivers and residents . Patience, perseverance and humor in assisting, facilitating and supporting the resident to achieve and maintain optimal function . Supportive, caring attitudes and methods that communicate . Appreciation of teamwork, as a vehicle by which high-quality, compassionate care is provided to residents COMMENTARY