With "Time to Care" you can save time, reduce stress, and enjoy quality time with your parent. Once upon a time, one of my caring colleagues told me how lucky I was to be experiencing such sacred quality time with my husband. This was immediately after my husband's first open heart surgery, and my reflexive reaction was, how insensitive could she be?
He had been discharged early, because I was a nurse, and was still in fairly critical condition. I was so worried, so busy caring for him, so afraid of making a mistake, and so exhausted that I was barely hanging on. Later, her meaning came to me.
He had been discharged early, because I was a nurse, and was still in fairly critical condition. I was so worried, so busy caring for him, so afraid of making a mistake, and so exhausted that I was barely hanging on. Later, her meaning came to me.
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Founder Gale Lyman is both a nurse and a family caregiver. With a good handle on how meaningful and yet how challenging both of these roles can be, she offers caregiving wisdom, creative solutions, and stress relief tools to nurses and caregivers that share her passion for taking care of others with compassion and competence.
Practicing effective stress management can make the difference between feeling exhausted and energized. If you really want to release stress and restore your energy, you have to successfully implement stress management. It's just like you tell your patients - knowing what to do is one thing. The hard part is finding a way to successfully do what you need to take care of yourself.
Burnout is a stress response to overwhelming responsibilities - like juggling work and caring for family members. People who are burned out describe being ineffective and inefficient, and feeling physical, emotional, and/or spiritual exhaustion.
Informal caregiver and family caregiver are terms used to refer to individuals, such as family members, partners, friends, and neighbors, who take care of loved ones with functional, emotional, and/or cognitive limitations due to illness or injury (FCA, 2014; NCP, 2018, p.62).Because of those limitations, they may need help with groceries, cooking, driving, scheduling appointments, taking medications, bathing, or more.
Informal caregiver and family caregiver are terms used to refer to individuals, such as family members, partners, friends, and neighbors, who take care of loved ones with functional, emotional, and/or cognitive limitations due to illness or injury (FCA, 2014; NCP, 2018, p.62).Because of those limitations, they may need help with groceries, cooking, driving, scheduling appointments, taking medications, bathing, or more.
If you need a break from stress, you are not alone. In a 2015 survey of people caring for family members, 42% requested assistance with coping and managing stress for themselves and their loved ones. Helping your aging parents is not for the fainthearted. Nor is getting older. Here's how you and your parents can take a break from the stress while developing greater resiliency to the challenges you face.
Enjoy the gift of more time with your aging parent, more time for you, and better well-being for both of you!. Time to Care: The Nurse's Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parent is a series of on-line, on-demand classes and materials prepared for nurses by a nurse, guiding you and your parent to negotiate the experience of aging with grace and ease.
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