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Section 28
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Table of Contents | NCCAP/NCTRC CE Booklet

Below is a summary of the ideas presented that help you to make time for your Low-Functioning and Alzheimer’s residents.  If you are really serious about improving your time management in the facility, duplicate the list below, cut it out from the rest of this page, and post in a very visible spot.  How about paper clipping it  to your desk calendar, as a quick reference to keep these time-saving ideas in sight and fresh in your mind?  Duplicate copies for other staff members in your department.

Permission is granted to duplicate this page for staff use.  Keep in a visible place for easy continual reference.

Concluding Commentary

Is your head buzzing with a ideas that you might try to become better organized and create more time in you busy activity day?  What about making a vow with yourself that you will never have another scheduled meeting again with your administrator or corporate consultant without bringing a list of items you wish to discuss?  What do you think of the system of a To-Do list which flows onto your Daily Task List?  Does that seem to be a system that might work for you, if your current system needs improvement?  What about some of the ideas for shortening phone calls and decreasing drop-in visitor time?  What have you decided to do to better organize your time in an effort to make more time?  Anything?  Nothing?  Maybe you are so well organized and efficient you are doing all of these, and the course has served as an affirmation that, yes, you are on the right track. 

But, you may be thinking, "Gee, there are some areas in which I need to improve."  What are those areas?  What is your plan? 

Do you really think you're going to make some behavioral changes on a regular, daily basis?  Let me tell you what I think.  I think that most probably, your decision to actually implement some of these ideas that require a core behavioral change may only be implemented if you are for some reason at a discomfort level with something you are doing.  So perhaps this course has served to increase your awareness of some inefficient behaviors you have had, and they have been inefficient because you never thought of a different way of handling, for example, drop-in visitors or phone calls. 

To me, you will fall into three different categories.  Either:
#1. You know all this stuff and are perfectly organized as it is;
#2. You are so ingrained in your current inefficient behaviors that you are totally resistant to these ideas and have come up with some form of a self-excuse for why they are bad ideas, stupid ideas, ideas that won't work, old ideas, ideas that won't work in long term care, and on and on and on; Or  
#3. You are like an open book and feel this course is the greatest thing 'since sliced bread.' 

This course has opened up some doors for you and increased your awareness level of some inefficiencies that you have had simply due to lack of knowing a better way to, for example, organize your workspace, etc. 

It doesn't take a degree in psychology to know that the best position for growth is #3, being open.  Are you?  Or are you just saying that now because I have positioned number one and number two in such a negative light?  So, I'll ask my question again:

In order to be open to change, you have to admit that there are some things, or at least one thing, that you could do better.  That's the first step.  Can you be open to change and admit that there are some things, or at least one thing, that you could do better?  Don't just say "yes" automatically.  I'll ask my question again: Can you be open to change and admit that there are some things, or at least one thing, that you could do better? 

Now that, hopefully, I have gotten your attention to ponder this seemingly simple question at a deeper level, if you can be open to change and feel there is at least one thing you can do better regarding time efficiency in the facility, what is that one thing?  What can you make a firm commitment to change regarding how you handle your time in the facility?  In the box below write this one idea down for which you are willing to consider change.

Writing your potential area of change down is key.  As you know, you can't change what you don't recognize. 

If you cannot recall a specific idea from the Manual,  I challenge you to go back through this Manual and underline or highlight potential areas of change for you to consider.  If there aren't any, maybe you are in category #1 or category #2 stated above. 

If now isn't a good time to change your time management skills, maybe you are overwhelmed with holiday preparations and just white knuckling your way through each day, when would be a better time?  In a week?   In a month?  In two months?  When.

I've given you ideas concerning time management that work.  However, somewhere inside of you, you need to figure out if, and/or when the motivation will come to make some of the core level behavioral changes suggested in this manual and on the DVD.  In the box,  write down a date when you will implement one of the ideas from this Manual.  When you implement that one idea, then try another, and another.

I have given you the best ideas I have regarding finding time for Culture Change, which of course encompasses time for your Low-Functioning and Alzheimer’s Programs.  I hope you will give these ideas you best efforts to implement the ones that will be of greatest benefit to your efficient use of time.  The decision is yours. I wish you the best!  I look forward to talking to you again in another course.   

Sincerely,