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“The purpose of potter, clay and blessings, inc.
is to inspire reform in the nursing home industry.”
 Seminars and Workshops: - On the Other Side: Employed on Friday and a Resident on Monday
- Overcoming the YESBUTS: Creative Problem Solving
- Who Me? Lead a Group? Small Group Leadership
- From the Pinata Factory to Main Street: Working with Residents with Psych Diagnosis in a Geriatric Nursing Home Setting.
- The Short Lady with Gray Hair and Glasses: An Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Behavior Challenges in Long Term Health Care
On the Other Side: Employed on Friday and a Resident on Monday is our newest seminar and has been presented for several groups and organizations in the first year. In this program participants meet Jamie and Steve—a nursing home administrator and department leader who find their worlds changed when she becomes ill and moves into the nursing home as a resident. Steve joins the family council and while watching Jamie's emotional state deteriorate—encourages her to keep a journal and to end each entry with “five good things about the nursing home.” With Jamie clearly giving up the fight, Steve becomes more determined to pull her through this life-changing period and find purpose and meaning. Jamie says “On Friday I sat at a computer writing care plans. I'd stepped down months before as an administrator position was too taxing on my failing health. On that Friday I wore a lab coat and a nice dress. On Monday I sat in the dining room while some new nurse I did not know put a bib around my neck, cut my meat and started to open my milk.” This seminar is their combined story of that year.
Overcoming the YESBUTS: Creative Problem Solving is an interactive workshop that's been presented for many years. Designed as a template to teach the group successful steps to working together to solve problems—the facilitators move the group through a series of steps using a sample challenge provided by the group. In the past groups have asked to consider issues such as raising census, working with families, improving communication, etc. Currently many groups are asking for help with moving the staff toward embracing the Pioneering concepts of culture change. This is a fast paced fun program that leaves the group with a multitude of possibilities for creating the change they desire in the problem they identify. This program is our most popular and has been presented all across the USA to a variety of groups both within the health care arena and without. The YESBUTS lends itself well to any group or organization with an unsolved problem or challenge.
Who Me? Lead a Group? Small Group Leadership is offered to small groups and organizations with people who are promoted to positions where they find themselves leading training groups and meetings and are not familiar or comfortable with this task. This three session series guides participants through lessons that teach and reinforce adult learning styles and components needed for successful group trainings and meetings. Small Group Leadership also lets class members experience and discuss challenges common to groups such as people arriving late, people unprepared, no follow through on assignments, folks who interrupt or lead the group to other topics, etc. Participants graduate with a confident knowledge of adult learners and the ability to meet these common challenges in a well formatted group session or training they can now lead. Some nursing homes have used this program for their own leaders and invited community leaders to participate as a method of getting more involved and present in a positive manner with their professional peers.
From the Pinata Factory to Main Street: Working with Residents with Psych Diagnosis in a Geriatric Nursing Home Setting was designed by Stephen Schaefer at the onset of Illinois Subpart S when it was discovered that his programs already fell well within these new regulations. These two programs (Main Street and the Pinata Factory) were just what they say they are. Each was developed with the specific requests and needs, backgrounds and future hopes of the residents at each location. Because these programs were very specifically designed for the residents of specifc homes it's not proposed that they be cookie-cutter copied into other facilities. Rather, Steve and Jamie will show you how they helped the residents who had been cast out from state hospitals and placed into geriatric nursing homes where they were labeled as hopeless and treated as unworthy to design their own programs. Participants will gain insight and ideas into how these design ideas can be used to meet the needs of special residents in their own facilities.
The Short Lady with Gray Hair and Glasses: An Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Behavior Challenges in Long Term Health Care is the only full day seminar in our portfolio. This program incorporates a multitude of activities that combined can be used by participants to better understand the individual needs with nursing home residents—especially those with dementia. In the morning participants cover 1) YESBUTS/Basic Problem Solving 2) Intergenerational and Multicultural Values Comparison 3) Time Management 4) Stages of Dementia and in the afternoon the group learns A.P.I.E. which is Assess, Plan, Implement and Evaluate and practices with real life behavior challenges presented by group participants. While many nursing home managers find it difficult to agree to an entire day of training—none have regretted doing so... and this training can save time in lost wages from injuries from combative folks, miles of paperwork when residents have a behavior related incident, fines from elopements—problems that are often top on the list in the needs of attendees. Consider putting this program in your training agenda.
Some of the custom designed programs we've presented as plan of corrections directed in-services include:
Care Plans: MDS and RAPS Making it all match
Resident Rights
A Restraint Free Home
Effective Psych Med Reduction Programming
and many others
Fee schedule
potter, clay and blessings, inc. charges a small fee for programs offered to groups and organizations and also expects reimbursement for expenses including mileage, hotel and meals. The organization works with the host group to find financial resources and make the trainings possible for those who request the services.
Availability
potter, clay and blessings, inc. volunteers are all nursing home residents or past residents and many have physical limitations making traveling compromised and request that time be allowed for the team to arrive one day prior to trainings and cannot hold more than one training a day. With accommodations this team is available to travel where ever the need may lead.
Calendar
A calendar of 2006 and 2007 scheduled trainings and conferences we plan to attend as presenters is offered on page five of this website. Calendar
Disclaimer: potter, clay and blessings, inc. does not replace your current social service or activities consultants. We recommend you see where your current consultants can help you with your challenges. The people in our organization are friends with the consultants in a large number of agencies and have respect for their talents, skills and desires to make this industry a better place for us all. We cannot replace what they have to offer you. Our services are unique and are supplementary. |
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