***I’ve partnered with BAYADA Home Healthcare in honor of Nurses Week. As always, all opinions are my own.
It is Nurses Week and I wanted to create a post to honor all of the wonderful nurses in my life! So, I have teamed up with BAYADA Home Health Care to show appreciation for nurses everywhere for the hard, honorable work that they do, especially during this special time of Nurses Week. Being a medical professional is hard work, and being a nurse especially requires so much passion and care. I want to take some time during Nurses Week to give a shout out to nurses everywhere for the amazing work they do every day. Nursing isn’t a career. It’s a calling! The nurses in my life are all forces to be reckoned with. Not only are they some of the most loving, warm and caring friends that I know, but they are also some of the most hardworking and dedicated professionals I know!
Speaking of which, one area of nursing that especially hits home for me is home health care because of the peace of mind it gives to families in need. My father is not a nurse, but is currently working as a home health care provider and has become such an important piece of the family puzzle. Home health care nurses become the missing link to many families and their value is undeniable. Being a home health care nurse is especially rewarding and unique because it provides the opportunity for close ongoing interpersonal connections at the bedside with your patients and their families. It’s a meaningful connection that is exclusive to home health care. It seems to me that home health care nurses have unlocked a secret part of the health care system, at the bedside in homes, schools, and senior living facilities around the country, nurses are delivering community-based care in the way Florence Nightingale, a trailblazer in modern nursing, envisioned.
You may or may not know this, but there’s a U.S. nursing shortage going on. We can debate the reasons, but what is not up for debate is the increasing demand for talent, especially in home health care. Home health care involves helping medically fragile children live their best lives with the use of technology and highly skilled nursing, supporting unique clinical needs of spinal cord injury with the latest rehabilitative treatment, or the post-acute needs of a patient recovering from illness or surgery while allowing them to avoid re-hospitalization and keep them where they want to stay: at home.
Calling All Nurses
If you are in the mindset for a change—whether you would like to give home health care a try by taking on some extra shifts, or if you’re burnt out and ready for a new work environment where you will be wildly appreciated and become part of the family, you should consider home health care. Specifically, I think you should consider BAYADA Home Health Care. I know I am not a nurse, but after partnering with BAYADA for today’s post I now realize that they are a company that puts their nurses first and their clinicians love what they do.
BAYADA values its employees by offering competitive compensation and benefits, including ongoing education and leadership opportunities and so much more. The company is grounded in what is referred to as the “BAYADA Way”, which is rooted in the philosophy that clients come first, employees are the most valued resource, and everyone—patient and clinician alike—should be treated with compassion, excellence and reliability. BAYADA was honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award as a winner of the Best Places to Work 2018, which is proof that the company really goes above and beyond for its nurses.
For this year’s Nurses Week, BAYADA is encouraging nurses to “Share, Care, Dare” —share your stories about how nursing has touched your life; be cared for by a company that puts you at the center; and reconnect with why you chose nursing in the first place by finding the perfect patient/case match for you. Nurses – visit http://bit.ly/2jkVhJf to learn more about the other ways the team takes care of clinicians like you.
Self-care
With the long hours that my nurse friends put in, I find that they do not make time for self-care as often as I would like to see. Self-care should be a routine part of every person’s routine and BAYADA couldn’t agree more! BAYADA knows how to take care of its nurses so they can take care of their patients—they even made custom nursing bag based on their nurses’ feedback to make life easier for them.
If you want a small taste of that, join BAYADA’s self-care giveaway and enter for a chance to win a self-care package that includes body-scrub, tea, delectable snacks and a custom BAYADA Bag.
What’s even better is that you have three chances to enter!
1-Comment on today’s blog by telling me how a nurse or nursing has touched your life!
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2-Share this post and tag a nurse you know on Facebook and show your appreciation to enter to win a kit for yourself! Use the hashtag #BAYADANursesWeek to help me keep track of entries!
3-Comment on today’s Instagram post and tag a nurse who has touched your life or how nursing has touched your life personally!
Good luck and thank you to all of the strong nurses out there! You are the backbone of the medical community and we salute you! Happy Nurses Week!
For giveaway terms and conditions visit https://bit.ly/2js85O4.
