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Home Nurse: How to Sleep Peacefully Every Night
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | home care | No Comments
When we are not necessarily overtired but perhaps only a little tired from the day’s activities, it is not uncommon to be kept awake by a flapping curtain or a swinging door, by unusual noises in the streets, or by people talking. How often we hear it said, “It did seem hard when I went to bed tired last night that I should have been kept awake by a noise like that–and now this morning, I am more tired than when I went to bed.”
The head nurse in a large hospital said once in distress: “I wish the nurses could be taught to step lightly over my head, so that they would not keep me awake at night.” It would have been a surprise to her if she had been told that her head could be taught to yield to the steps of the nurses, so that their walking would not keep her awake.
It is resistance that keeps us awake in all such cases. The curtain flaps, and we resist it; the door swings to over and over again, and we resist it, and keep ourselves awake by wondering why it does not stop; we hear noises in the street that we am unused to, especially if we are accustomed to sleeping in the stillness of the country, and we toss and turn and wish we were in a quiet place. All the trouble comes from our own resistance to the noise, and resistance is nothing but unwillingness to submit to our conditions.
If we are willing that the curtain should go on flapping, the door go on slamming, or the noise in the street continue steadily on, our brains yield to the conditions and so sleep naturally, because the noise goes through us, so to speak, and does not run hard against our unwillingness to hear it.
Home Care Nurse: Make Sure You Get Enough Rest
Friday, February 6th, 2009 | home care | No Comments
The rest-instinct is most generally disobeyed, most widely needed, and obedience to it would bring the most effective results. A restful state of mind and body prepares one for the best effects from exercise, fresh air, and nourishment. This instinct is the more disobeyed because with the need for rest there seems to come an inability to take it, so that not only is every impediment magnified, but imaginary impediments are erected, and only a decided and insistent use of the will in dropping everything that interferes, whether real or imaginary, will bring a whiff of a breeze from the true rest-current.
Rest is not always silence, but silence is always rest; and a real silence of the mind is known by very few. Having gained that, or even approached it, we are taken by the rest-wind itself, and it is strong enough to bear our full weight as it swings us along to renewed life and new strength for work to come.
The secret is to turn to silence at the first hint from nature; and sleep should be the very essence of silence itself.
All this would be very well if we were free to take the right amount of rest, fresh air, exercise, and nourishment; but many of us are not. It will not be difficult for any one to call to mind half a dozen persons who impede the good which might result from the use of these four necessities simply by complaining that they cannot have their full share of either. Indeed, some of us may find in ourselves various stones of this sort stopping the way.
To take what we can and be thankful, not only enables us to gain more from every source of health, but opens the way for us to see clearly how to get more. This complaint, however, is less of an impediment than the whining and fussing which come from those who are free to take all four in abundance, and who have the necessity of their own especial physical health so much at heart that there is room to think of little else. These people crowd into the various schools of physical culture by the hundred, pervade the rest-cures, and are ready for any new physiological fad which may arise, with no result but more physical culture, more rest-cure, and more fads. Nay, there is sometimes one other result,–disease. That gives them something tangible to work for or to work about. But all their eating and breathing and exercising and resting does not bring lasting vigorous health, simply because they work at it as an end, of which self is the centre and circumference.
The sooner our health-instinct is developed, and then taken as a matter of course, the sooner can the body become a perfect servant, to be treated with true courtesy, and then forgotten. Here is an instinct of our barbarous ancestry which may be kept and refined through all future phases of civilization. This instinct is natural, and the obedience to it enables us to gain more rapidly in other, higher instincts which, if our ancestors had at all, were so embryonic as not to have attained expression.
Nourishment, fresh air, exercise, rest,–so far as these are not taken simply and in obedience to the natural instinct, there arise physical stones in the way, stones that form themselves into an apparently insurmountable wall. There is a stile over that wall, however, if we will but open our eyes to see it. This stile, carefully climbed, will enable us to step over the few stones on the other side, and follow the physical path quite clearly.
Home Nurse: True and False Human Sympathy
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | home care | No Comments
A NURSE who had been only a few weeks in the hospital training-school, once saw–from her seat at the dinner-table–a man brought into the house who was suffering intensely from a very severe accident. The young woman started up to be of what service she could, and when she returned to the table, had lost her appetite entirely, because of her sympathy for the suffering man. She had hardly begun her dinner, and would have gone without it if it had not been for a sharp reprimand from the superintendent.
“If you really sympathize with that man,” she said, “you will eat your dinner to get strength to take care of him. Here is a man who will need constant, steady, _healthy_ attention for some days to come,–and special care all this afternoon and night, and it will be your duty to look out for him. Your ’sympathy’ is already pulling you down and taking away your strength, and you are doing what you can to lose more strength by refusing to eat your dinner. Such sympathy as that is poor stuff; I call it weak sentimentality.”
The reprimand was purposely sharp, and, by arousing the anger and indignation of the nurse, it served as a counter-irritant which restored her appetite. After her anger had subsided, she thanked the superintendent with all her heart, and from that day she began to learn the difference between true and false sympathy. It took her some time, however, to get thoroughly established in the habit of healthy sympathy. The tendency to unwholesome sympathy was part of her natural inheritance, along with many other evil tendencies which frequently have to be overcome before a person with a very sensitive nervous system can find his own true strength.
But as she watched the useless suffering which resulted in all cases in which people allowed themselves to be weakened by the pain of others, she learned to understand more and more intelligently the practice of wholesome sympathy, and worked until it had become her second nature. Especially did she do this after having proved many times, by practical experience, the strength which comes through the power of wholesome sympathy to those in pain.
Care for the Terminally ill
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | home care | No Comments
Home Care Client
Helping them make the most of life.
Those dreaded words can be like a thunderbolt! So what can you do to bring joy into a person’s final days?
Sometimes all it takes is a laugh to ease the burden. Yet when it’s someone close to you, it can be difficult to do what’s right. Shine some light into a life that still has time to live.
It’s time you helped them make the most of life, since you probably want to relieve the pain of your loved one.
Care for Disabled Young People
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Home Care Client
Coping with Young Disability
We all know that young people, whatever their disability, cope better in the community than in a nursing home.
Sometimes the strain on a parent’s life can be too great, so our carers can deal with a lot of the stuff that just needs to be done, as well as being a friend.
It leaves you more time to be parent.
24 Hour Live in Home Care
Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | home care | 1 Comment
Home Care Client
When they need a helping hand around the clock.
When it’s a choice between full-time live in care and a nursing home, most people prefer to stay at home.
To cover the most intensive of needs, many professional carers will help on a rota basis. Each carer is highly qualified, with many years of experience and they will become friends for life!
Affordable & Professional Home Care Tips
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | home care | No Comments
Lilly Breen, Client
Everyone deserves the best care!
Each person’s needs are unique, so it’s important for you to see the right personalised care from someone you can trust.
Sometimes the care that people need and want, is just more than the average family member can provide, and that’s why a friendly and professional home carer could be your answer.
What is the Process?
So how can you set up an appointment with your home carer?
- Call your local home care providers and arrange an appointment.
- At your appointment, discuss exactly how they can help you.
- Ask them to visit your family member at home or at hospital
- Agree the right home care service and how often.
- Make sure your family member is happy with them.
You can start enjoying your free time and peace of mind - it’s your choice when!
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