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This is the second part of the OLD WOMAN’S THOUGHTS- this was written by a care provider:   Who is it you see when you’re looking at me Am I just a nurse or a friend that you see? Am I an ear when things don’t go right Or am I an eye when you’re…

This poem is was found among a nursing home patients things after she passed…I think it says things better than I can- What do you see, nurses, what do you see? What are you thinking when you are looking at me? A crabby old woman, not very wise, Uncertain of habit, with faraway eyes? Who…

You have all heard me say this at one time or another, “Don’t forget that you work WITH our clients but you work FOR Home Instead.” And all of you have agreed that it is a simple policy. Some responses have been along the lines of, “Duh, that’s obvious…” Yet, it is still the policy…

I saw this on FB but don’t know who to credit it too: “ A car ahead of me was moving like a turtle and not giving way despite my continuous honking. I was on the brink of losing my cool when I noticed the small sticker on the car’s rear bumper. It read- “Physically…

A Fence or an Ambulance by Joseph Malins (1895) -a poem about prevention – ‘Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed, though to walk near its crest was so pleasant; but over its terrible edge there had slipped a duke and full many a peasant. So the people said something would have to be…