What’s Your Passion?

Yesterday I had the good fortune to be interviewed by a Healthcare Educator. Talking to her about our Safe Swallowing Education Course reminded me how much passion I still have after so many years (40 in fact!) of working as a speech pathologist.

Working in Aged Care is such a privilege. Supporting, not only the residents and their families but the staff who come to work, day in day out and make such an important difference to the lives of those they care for, never grows old. Not every day is easy for any of them. Things can change very quickly with our ageing loved ones.

I’m reminded by the Staff who have invested in themselves to update, refresh or learn anew, about the importance of swallowing safety, that one small suggestion in our Safe Swallowing Course can change a challenging situation into one of ease. The nurse in point was trying to convince a resident to eat her meal. She simply would ‘not co-operate’. Of course, she couldn’t be dragged to her meal or force fed.

The nurse who had just completed our Course realised that the television could be a distraction that prevented the lady from eating her meal, even though she was hungry. Within the 2 seconds it took to turn off the tv, this lady had spontaneously moved to the dining table and was happily eating her meal.

That’s just one of the suggestions in our Course that can empower staff to make everyone’s life easier.

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