Missing too long

I can't believe it's been two months since I blogged. At StilMee we've been busy with presentations, trainings (there is one in Tiverton Rhode Island on June 11), and welcoming a new coach for Plymouth and Cape Cod. I'm also re-entering the psychiatric nursing field in an effort to regain patient contact. My first love is psychiatry; I learned so much about behavior management psychiatric nursing. I plan to work with elders with mental health issues and dementia. I can practice and perfect my skills in working with this population. My goal; to empower each to be in control of his or her own life to the greatest safest extent possible.
We coaches are working on a 'memory' handout which I'll add to the blog. It discusses the types of memory (working, episodic, semantic and procedural), their normal function, the impaired function and the appropriate approaches/interventions that will help the person function better. To whet your appetite for new knowledge, the working memory and episodic memory are impaired in memory loss, the procedural and semantic can be tapped with cues both visual and auditory. I'll share more as I get the handout edited and checked for accuracy and readability. I promise I will blog before another 2 weeks has gone by. I'll share my new journey into psyciatric nursing; what I am learning and what the patients are teaching me about what they need.
Good to be back.. I just returned from eight days bare boating (the boat is bare, not the sailor and first mate!) It was a restful and exciting time to relax before the next leg of my journey into caregiving...Bev