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Steps to “Tag-Out” Equipment

1. Identify equipment that requires servicing
2. Tag the equipment with red tag, “Do Not Operate”
3. Request Service – Fill out a repair request via TheWorxHub template
4. Move Equipment – If possible, move equipmnet to a designated area to be picked up and repaired.

Check your unit for more information and details.

Let’s talk about your future – Municipal Pension Plan Seminars

Attend a Thinking About Retiring seminar!

Learn about: Your Member’s Benefit Statement

Pension options

Determining your retirement income

Onlind pension plan tools and resources

Pre-register at mpp.pensionsbc.ca

 

 

Are you ready to be inspired and supported towards positive personal change and enhanced health? If so, here’s some help!

Health Coaching will help you to:

1. Find your own personal motivations for change
2. Shift unproductive beliefs and attitudes
3. Improve healthy eating habits and coping skills
4. Make positive lifestyle changes
5. Sustain change over the long-term

Your Health Coach will provide you with…

1. Motivation and support as you set goals and take action
2. Accountability as you follow your plan
3. Support as you track your progress
4. Strategies to maintain your progress
5. Positive feedback and recommendations for ongoing change

Health Coaching will improve your personal health and wellbeing!

Are you struggling to regain balance in your life? Do you have concerns about tension in your relationships, addictions, weight management, etc?

In today’s fast paced world, the stress and demands of life, family and work can take a toll on all of us. Often the first things to go when we lose perspective and balance are the healthy eating and lifestyle habits that are essential to our overall wellbeing!

FSEAP’s  (Family Services Employee Assistance Program) Health Coaching Service will help you regain balance in your life and re-establish the healthy habits and actions that are key to your resilience and wellness. Designed by experts in the fields of health promotion and personal change, FSEAP’s Health Coaching program will guide you through a holistic and proven health enhancement program, taking an “inside out” approach that will empower you! This program is COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS!

At a Glance

FSEAPs Health Coaching is a self-directed program that offers a holistic approach to make lasting positive lifestyle changes over the course of 12 weeks. A certified health coach and behaviour change consultant will provide you with online and telephone support as you identify your personal behaviour change goals. Whether you want to focus on goals specific to general health and well-being, fitness, weight loss, or stress management, they will provide advice and strategies tailored to your specific needs and goals.

You will receive a step-by-step 12 Weeks to Wellness workbook, up to to two-hours of telephonic / online coaching, and access to online health assessments and a library of health and wellness articles and resources.

How to get started?

Call this phone number: 1.800.667.0993

TTY: 1.888.234.0414

www.fseap.bc.ca

 

 

Do you know that residents and their families give gifts of gratitude for the care they’ve received at Menno Place – and for their appreciation for their home on this campus?

This past year, we set out to raise the funds to create a beautiful recreation space behind Primrose Gardens – we asked our residents to donate through our Christmas Donation letter; we asked our Mennonite Benevolent Society members to donate at Christmas and again at the Annual General Meeting.

Through the generous donations of our residents, we will be able to create another recreation space between Primrose Gardens and Menno Hospital.  There is a patch of grass above the underground parkade that simply doesn’t want to stay green. It has no safe access for residents. This is the patch that will be transformed into a putting green and checker / chess board with covered benches surrounding the space.

We are grateful to our residents, society members and others who donated the funds to transform this space into an active play area for the use of all residents on our campus!

Here are the initial plans:

Here is what a finished putting green looks like at Elim Village in Surrey:

Here’s the chess board at Harrison by the lagoon:

This article is taken from Canadian-Nurse.com

Q: I’m looking for some tips I can share with families on communicating with people who have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.

A: Communicating clearly with another person requires that one has both good semantic memory (to pick the right words when speaking) and good working memory (to understand and interpret what the other person is saying). Unfortunately, in someone with Alzheimer’s disease, these two cognitive capacities are deeply affected. In my clinical practice, I sometimes witness struggles between a nurse and an older patient with dementia. Often the problem is that the patient does not engage to the degree expected by the nurse. The patient doesn’t listen….Well, we should say that the patient doesn’t understand!

Here are some key elements to remember when talking with a person with Alzheimer’s disease.

With the progression of this disease, patients lose more and more vocabulary, and it becomes very hard for them to follow a complex conversation. That’s why, for you to be understood, it is important to use simple and short sentences, speak slowly and clearly, ask one question or give one instruction at a time, and use non-verbal cues. Thus, patients will find it easier to understand you and they will be more likely to cooperate and participate during care and activities.

Avoid confrontation because it increases the risk of escalating agitation. For example, with a resident in a nursing home who’s thinking that it’s time to go to work, it is not helpful to resort to reality orientation therapy and tell him that he no longer has a job. It is better just to say that today is a holiday. In fact, questioning the memory of the resident may increase anxiety by bringing on a situation of incomprehension and, consequently, cause suffering that can increase agitation (physical or verbal).

A good way to avoid escalation is by using validation therapy, whereby we enter the person’s reality to connect with the emotions and worries they express. So when the 95-year-old patient is looking for her mother, it is more helpful to let her talk about her mother to make the mother real in her mind instead of telling her that she passed away many years ago. The latter would only upset her and create sadness.

Some nurses are uncomfortable with validation therapy because, in psychiatric courses, they learned the importance of telling the truth and helping patients differentiate between what is real and unreal. This approach to care was popular in the 1990s, but we now know that it is not effective for patients with dementia.

In spite of their disease, these patients still want to engage in conversation. However, few people take the time to listen to them because they cannot form logical thoughts. Using adapted active listening is a powerful way to preserve the identity of the individual, to foster exchanges and to avoid confrontation. In this type of conversation, you focus on the dialogue’s form instead of its content. Your responses must be unconditionally positive — “That’s right!” “Of course!” “I agree with you!” — and should be offered each time the patient stops talking. The patient will derive pleasure from such exchanges, which will enhance the expression of emotions and improve self-esteem.

Finally, one has to remember that some patients with Alzheimer’s disease rely on communicating their needs through their behaviour because they can no longer use the right words. As caregivers, we should also pay attention to our own non-verbal behaviour; it often communicates more to our patients than do our words.