Milestone HCQU West Blog

April 15, 2020

Being Prepared: Remote Support

Keeping people safe and healthy is always our goal. What happens when the person we support must be hospitalized? The hospital is not always aware of how the person we support communicates, takes medication, what their health history is, or what type of diet the person requires. Many times, we can provide input and even staffing to help the person...

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March 18, 2020

Cheers to the Future

Sometimes I forget what it was that led me to this field. In all honesty it doesn’t matter. It matters more to me what keeps me in this field. I won’t earn a million dollars, most likely won’t win a presidential award, and I can kiss an Oscar goodbye. So no, it’s none of those things. It’s seeing the good...

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December 4, 2019

Pain

Pain. It’s not something that a person often registers into their brain until ones’ self is in pain. It is often not our first thought when we see someone frowning, walking slowly, or furrowing their brow. We may think the person is unhappy or “in a bad mood.” Thinking in terms of the people we support, there is often a...

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July 17, 2019

Jack

Jack. Jack. Jack. My dog has given me 17 amazingly fun and often chaotic years of life. As of this writing she is still chugging along. It probably won’t be much longer. She is showing all the signs of being near the end of life. Vomiting, as her digestive system shuts down, slow breathing, as her heart and lungs begin...

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March 13, 2019

The Vicious Cycle

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana When a plane goes down, do we asked what killed the passengers? When a person dies in a car crash, do we ask what killed them? We assume it is the blunt force trauma. We search no further. However, the makers of that plane or the maker...

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Author: Maggie Voorhees

Being Prepared: Remote Support

Cheers to the Future

Pain

Jack

The Vicious Cycle