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2017-10-12 06:38:36 PM nikiawyche we have secret santa at my place staff buys a gift for residents that cost no more than $10.00 and santa comes and has cookies with them and brings them a gift
2017-10-12 06:38:39 PM sheliai1 I'm still CNA certified,,
2017-10-12 06:38:56 PM nikiawyche christmas eve a little elf leaves a stocking on everyones door
2017-10-12 06:39:06 PM kathyhughes I would say that the salary should be equivalent to a nurse manager of a nusing unit
2017-10-12 06:39:27 PM dinap That i dont know but I was started off with $16.00 so i dont know if that's good or bad@lindsaylu85
2017-10-12 06:39:28 PM melissajdikken I googled that question, for a rural area like mine, it stated 13 to 17 an hour.
2017-10-12 06:39:51 PM courtczary We usually have a resident christmas party with music, snata, photo booth, food and staff christmas party.
2017-10-12 06:39:54 PM melissajdikken For a facility in a larger city, 18-23 an hour.
2017-10-12 06:39:57 PM val5 All staff including the admin. buy little gifts for our residents and we have a big party with live music, food and Santa gives out the gifts.
2017-10-12 06:40:29 PM sheliai1 the CNA experience is very helpful in activities
2017-10-12 06:40:39 PM jadams69 we are having a Christmas Party with santa claus delivering presents to residents.
2017-10-12 06:40:43 PM jessicarae Kathy that would be nice!!
2017-10-12 06:40:56 PM val5 Last year at the staff Holiday Party we had an ugliest sweater contest with gift card prizes
2017-10-12 06:41:12 PM lindsaylu85 i ask because i feel i got low balled. i not only am the director, but i also am required to do the peli's, audits out the bum, i was off a week and i have 8 new admits. we were many hats at my facility. and i asked for 32k a year and i got way below that. and i asked if once i was certified about a raise and was told no that my wage was fair. and i would make 80 cents less as an stna.
2017-10-12 06:41:14 PM kathyhughes We had the night shift leave stockings on each residents bed
2017-10-12 06:41:49 PM courtczary Thats a great idea Kathy!
2017-10-12 06:41:56 PM lindsaylu85 oo i love that idea
2017-10-12 06:41:58 PM kathyhughes You might want to call around to other activity professionals in your area
2017-10-12 06:42:02 PM sheliai1 It's that time of year again, holidays beginning with Halloween,,,I love it,
2017-10-12 06:42:02 PM melissajdikken We have carolers come sing, our local church does a service. we have a couple people dress up as santa, santas wife, and an elf . we build a sleigh and deliver gifts.
2017-10-12 06:42:08 PM kathyhughes they might let you know
2017-10-12 06:42:15 PM melissajdikken I think we also do the stockings on the beds too.
2017-10-12 06:42:20 PM kaityk I was told that once i get certified that I will make the full salary
2017-10-12 06:42:20 PM lindsaylu85 ty kathy
2017-10-12 06:42:21 PM dinap We Take or IL Residents to a nice Steak house and rent out one of the room for them and we take them to go see the christmas lights for this outing we also have to rent out a big bus because our bus isnt big enough
2017-10-12 06:42:24 PM moniques we have amiddle school sing carols
2017-10-12 06:43:02 PM nikiawyche I have an Il resident that hangs my stocking on the door on Christmas eve the residents must know that she is waiting for them to go to bed cusz they keep their doors open and stay up late that night any other time they are sleep by 8:30 /9
2017-10-12 06:43:14 PM jadams69 We also go out to see christmas lights and the parade
2017-10-12 06:43:17 PM melissajdikken I dont know what to expect if I get the new position, because its tied in with social work................
2017-10-12 06:43:53 PM nikiawyche We do a black and white holiday meal everyone gets dressed up we have happy hour before dinner the resident look so nice
2017-10-12 06:43:54 PM kathyhughes well I would check around your area to see
2017-10-12 06:44:49 PM dinap I got offered another job today but Im kinda scared to take it because it's in memory care
2017-10-12 06:44:50 PM kathyhughes We had a Christmas movie marathon
2017-10-12 06:45:04 PM dinap I have only worked in memory care as a cma
2017-10-12 06:45:05 PM courtczary That would be fun to see the residents all dressed up!
2017-10-12 06:45:06 PM kathyhughes Memory care is great
2017-10-12 06:45:16 PM angelasulli yesss lots of halmark holiday movies
2017-10-12 06:45:18 PM melissajdikken We do tour of lights also. But i think we will only schedule it 2 times this year, last year we did tour of lights once a week, and only one time we had a good group of people. the remainder weeks no one wanted to go
2017-10-12 06:45:23 PM alexandrac Memory care is a blast!
2017-10-12 06:45:57 PM dinap im just a little nervous
2017-10-12 06:45:59 PM nikiawyche like the movie a ton
2017-10-12 06:46:05 PM kathyhughes We also celebrated all the Dec holidays
2017-10-12 06:46:06 PM christie9 I was looking at a memoty care job today
2017-10-12 06:46:22 PM nikiawyche yes Dec is a great month
2017-10-12 06:46:23 PM val5 We have "cookies and carols", all residents come and each department in our facility is represented and sings a carol. Punch and cookies are served after
2017-10-12 06:46:46 PM nikiawyche in January we do a snowball fight, winter blues bbq and winterball
2017-10-12 06:46:52 PM angelasulli how big is everyones facility
2017-10-12 06:46:55 PM jessicarae Question: Does anyone have an electronic program to keep track of participation?
2017-10-12 06:47:00 PM lindsaylu85 72 beds
2017-10-12 06:47:06 PM jessicarae 72 beds
2017-10-12 06:47:06 PM melissajdikken 56
2017-10-12 06:47:13 PM lindsaylu85 yes
2017-10-12 06:47:17 PM alexandrac we use ProActivity
2017-10-12 06:47:23 PM kaityk 96 beds
2017-10-12 06:47:23 PM nikiawyche 32 personal care and 180 IL
2017-10-12 06:47:24 PM angelasulli 80
2017-10-12 06:47:24 PM matthewc yes we use point click care
2017-10-12 06:47:25 PM lindsaylu85 we have point of care
2017-10-12 06:47:30 PM moniques me to and alex
2017-10-12 06:47:31 PM nikiawyche point of care
2017-10-12 06:47:31 PM courtczary 116 and we were completely full for the first time today!
2017-10-12 06:47:34 PM lindsaylu85 or point click care
2017-10-12 06:47:36 PM moniques do you like it?
2017-10-12 06:47:40 PM jessicarae I saw on AC today they released a new program
2017-10-12 06:47:45 PM kaityk I have PCC
2017-10-12 06:47:46 PM christie9 160
2017-10-12 06:47:47 PM courtczary we use pcc
2017-10-12 06:47:49 PM shirleym we also use point of care
2017-10-12 06:47:57 PM jessicarae We use paper :(
2017-10-12 06:48:07 PM shirleym yikes jessica!
2017-10-12 06:48:15 PM melissajdikken no we dont, none of our staff use Optimus, but myself, director and nursing
2017-10-12 06:48:19 PM jessicarae Everything is electronic except for those tracking sheets!
2017-10-12 06:48:22 PM melissajdikken our aides use paper
2017-10-12 06:48:25 PM moniques is point of car similar to sigmacare?
2017-10-12 06:48:33 PM val5 80 in the Health Center, 300 in IL and we do input our program participation into AOD system
2017-10-12 06:48:36 PM sheliai1 point click care is so wonderful and very helpful
2017-10-12 06:48:42 PM lindsaylu85 I have a calendar book they mark in too.
2017-10-12 06:48:44 PM kaityk How does everyone do their Daily participation sheets?
2017-10-12 06:48:52 PM dinap we have pcc but we use paper for participation
2017-10-12 06:48:57 PM jadams69 120 - point click care
2017-10-12 06:49:08 PM kaityk T/hats what I do Dinnap
2017-10-12 06:49:19 PM jadams69 we also have an activities tracking log we keep
2017-10-12 06:49:27 PM lindsaylu85 they take it to activities so that if they forget to chart something and i can take them to care plans and have it in black and white
2017-10-12 06:49:49 PM dinap can you do one on one visits on pcc too?
2017-10-12 06:49:50 PM moniques Submit it in Proactivity reports and evaluate whether they particpated or not
2017-10-12 06:49:57 PM melissajdikken We have a form, kind of hard to explain, but we are possibly going to change our form for activity attendance. My staff havent been doing well with record keeping.
2017-10-12 06:50:15 PM kaityk dinap our 1:1s are in our participation book
2017-10-12 06:50:26 PM dinap ours are too
2017-10-12 06:50:28 PM kaityk Same melissa
2017-10-12 06:50:32 PM jadams69 we still hand write all activity notes
2017-10-12 06:50:36 PM lindsaylu85 my corp ppl were in all week due to state and i had them completely redo my poc set up. if it is on the calendar it is now in poc
2017-10-12 06:50:41 PM melissajdikken We also have a seperate form for 1-1a
2017-10-12 06:51:04 PM jessicarae The one they recently added and showed on Ac is called carecapture
2017-10-12 06:51:15 PM val5 residents are in the system, you click their name and tab across for date, time, activity and participation level
2017-10-12 06:51:20 PM kaityk does it cost something jessica
2017-10-12 06:51:24 PM lindsaylu85 I also have a 1-1 tracking binder.
2017-10-12 06:51:27 PM alexandrac Kathy how many CU's do we need to apply for NCCAP?
2017-10-12 06:51:36 PM jessicarae Im not sure, I just wathced th youtube video
2017-10-12 06:51:50 PM kaityk I'll have to check it out
2017-10-12 06:51:51 PM lindsaylu85 also on a binker for music and memory for tracking
2017-10-12 06:51:56 PM jessicarae But tomorrow I will be showing our GM its so much more time efficent
2017-10-12 06:52:01 PM kaityk I would love to see you alls calendars
2017-10-12 06:52:13 PM sheliai1 one on one visits are kept on record through point click care/ kios
2017-10-12 06:52:30 PM kathyhughes You need 30 clock hours of continuing education in the past 5 years for your initial certification
2017-10-12 06:52:39 PM dinap we have paper for our music and memory as well
2017-10-12 06:52:44 PM melissajdikken We have optimus, which has similar features, however we havent had positive cooperation in the past with past aides, all of this was done before i started, which is why they went to paper data collection
2017-10-12 06:53:20 PM alexandrac oh my last 5 years? ok that's great! Now I just have to see which one's would qualify?
2017-10-12 06:53:24 PM melissajdikken kaityk, send me your email and i can send you a copy of my calendar,
2017-10-12 06:53:27 PM sheliai1 point click care makes everything nostly paperless
2017-10-12 06:53:40 PM val5 We have no paper, not sure if that is always a good thing
2017-10-12 06:53:55 PM courtczary PCC is great and really easy to use!
2017-10-12 06:54:01 PM lindsaylu85 i am huge on charting. i would rather over chart and be well documented then miss something. my staff hates and me and anything i find something not charted they mack and say if its not charted it didnt happen.
2017-10-12 06:54:16 PM kathyhughes You look at the NCCAP standards under the Body of Knowledge
2017-10-12 06:54:17 PM melissajdikken we will be changing some of our scheduled activities. Since we our census is down and has affected our staffing hours we have to make a change.
2017-10-12 06:54:22 PM sheliai1 you can eaisly pull up info of residents activities
2017-10-12 06:54:51 PM kaityk Thank you melissa!
2017-10-12 06:54:55 PM courtczary Our building believes if it's not documented then it never happened! so wwe put everything in the system.
2017-10-12 06:55:05 PM alexandrac will do, just thought good topic of conversation too
2017-10-12 06:55:08 PM moniques make sense
2017-10-12 06:55:17 PM kathyhughes Is there anything else that I can help with tonight?
2017-10-12 06:55:21 PM dinap well I will see you guys next thursday. i have to go now
2017-10-12 06:55:23 PM jadams69 yep court mine too- not down if not written
2017-10-12 06:55:24 PM moniques Great conversation!
2017-10-12 06:55:36 PM kathyhughes Have a great week!
2017-10-12 06:55:36 PM angelasulli nope see you next week
2017-10-12 06:55:38 PM dinap goodnight everyone
2017-10-12 06:55:38 PM melissajdikken Yes kathy, i
2017-10-12 06:55:40 PM sheliai1 that is so true, not documented ,didnt happen
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2017-10-12 06:55:41 PM moniques have a great weekend everyone
2017-10-12 06:55:42 PM shirleym i have nothing else and thanks!
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2017-10-12 06:55:53 PM val5 good night all, thanks
2017-10-12 06:55:53 PM lindsaylu85 thank you everyone!
2017-10-12 06:55:55 PM alexandrac we have one more week! OMG! Night for now!
2017-10-12 06:55:56 PM jadams69 THANK YOU KATHY- HAVE A GREAT WEEK
2017-10-12 06:56:00 PM dinap left the chat room
2017-10-12 06:56:00 PM christie9 thank you
2017-10-12 06:56:03 PM melissajdikken am working on getting my things together for the certification process
2017-10-12 06:56:04 PM kathyhughes You are welcome
2017-10-12 06:56:04 PM jadams69 GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE
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2017-10-12 06:56:16 PM jessicarae Thanks Kathy!
2017-10-12 06:56:17 PM nikiawyche Thank you Kathy have a great evening
2017-10-12 06:56:18 PM kathyhughes great
2017-10-12 06:56:23 PM jadams69 BE CAREFUL OUT THERE (})
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2017-10-12 06:56:29 PM kathyhughes You too!
2017-10-12 06:56:33 PM melissajdikken When should i get my application out???
2017-10-12 06:56:37 PM sheliai1 Good night Kathy and classmate, have a great weekend....
2017-10-12 06:56:40 PM nikiawyche have a great evening evetyone
2017-10-12 06:56:41 PM jadams69 left the chat room
2017-10-12 06:56:55 PM kathyhughes When you have all your info you can send it out
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2017-10-12 06:57:04 PM kathyhughes As soon as you can
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2017-10-12 06:57:34 PM melissajdikken is our final exam different from the cert exam?
2017-10-12 06:57:44 PM val5 left the chat room
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2017-10-12 06:58:02 PM kathyhughes It is for the course the national exam is for certification
2017-10-12 06:58:15 PM kathyhughes You will do fine
2017-10-12 06:58:32 PM melissajdikken ok, so the national exam is a seperate exam
2017-10-12 06:58:39 PM kathyhughes yes
2017-10-12 06:58:40 PM nikiawyche we have to wait for our certification from you correct
2017-10-12 06:58:41 PM melissajdikken sorry if my questions are silly
2017-10-12 06:58:53 PM kathyhughes You have to apply to NCCAP to take the national exam
2017-10-12 06:58:57 PM kathyhughes yes
2017-10-12 06:58:58 PM melissajdikken ok
2017-10-12 06:59:03 PM kathyhughes Good night all
2017-10-12 06:59:11 PM melissajdikken gnite
2017-10-12 06:59:15 PM nikiawyche Good nite all
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