Author: Liz Healy
Choose to Lose: Week 5
Week Five: Accountability
| “Stop saying I wish; start saying I will.” |
Accountability can be an important factor when it comes to weight loss success. This accountability can come from within or through others. Self-monitoring your daily food intake increases your success rate of weight loss because it makes you aware of what you are consuming and where extra calories may be coming from. Recording your fitness goals can also help hold you accountable and allow you to set realistic weekly or monthly goals.
An accountability partner has also shown to be effective with weight loss goals. Inform your spouse, friend or co-workers of your goals to help you stay accountable. This may even lead them to jump on board with you and start their own weight loss journey.
So, grab a notebook or download a food intake and fitness app and start recording!
Don’t Forget! Remember, your goal is to record your weight at least once each week for all eight weeks of the challenge. Complete the challenge to earn 25 Healthy Habit points.
Visit www.RiversideHealthcare.org/REACH from your desktop or mobile device to continue reporting!
Well in Mind: Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
March is Self-Harm Awareness Month. When people experience depression and anxiety, they may engage in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). NSSI is intentionally inflicting harm to the body but without intention of dying. NSSI is not a mental illness, it is a sign someone is going through serious psychological distress
How to Deal With Self-Harm
Emotions can be really painful sometimes. It’s totally normal to need ways to cope with and process the hard things in your life. If you are using self-harm to manage your emotions, here are some ways to push through, process, and cope with your emotions.
- Text to cool down: If you’re dealing with painful emotions, you can reach out to a crisis text line to connect with a real human and strategize healthy coping mechanisms to manage your emotions. Text HOME to 741741.
- Get creative: Studies show that making art can help people process emotions. Next time you feel like self-harming, grab a marker and doodle your worries away. A bonus: you reap the same rewards even if you’re no good at it!
- Find your Zen: Keeping yourself safe from self-harming is all about finding healthy alternatives to work through the hard stuff. Taking time to re-center through meditation to be a powerful way to find your cool and calm. Try using an app like Headspace.
- Talk to a professional: Self-harm is serious. Talking to someone who can help you find alternatives is incredibly important.
Well In Mind is here for you. Call 815-933-2240 to schedule an appointmentor to ask about your EAP benefits.
Celebrating Certified Nurses Day
Riverside Healthcare is celebrating Certified Nurses Day on March 19 by honoring its board-certified nurses.
Board certification of nurses plays an increasingly important role in the assurance of high standards of care for patients and their loved ones. Nursing, like health care in general, has become increasingly complex. While a registered nurse (RN) license provides entry to general nursing practice, the knowledge-intensive requirements of modern nursing require extensive education, as well as a strong personal commitment to excellence by the nurse.
Riverside Healthcare encourages national board certification for all its nurses. There are many nursing certification specialties, such as medical-surgical, pediatric, pain management, cardiovascular, oncology, hospice, case management, emergency nursing, critical care, and many others. Many nursing certification bodies exist to serve the full range of specialized nursing care offered in the contemporary health care system; national nurse-certifying bodies should be accredited by the Accreditation Board for Specialty Nursing Certification (ABSNC) or the National Organization for Competence Assurance (NOCA).
Please join Riverside Healthcare and the nation’s national nursing certification organizations in honoring those hardworking, dedicated nurses for their professionalism, commitment, and a job well done!
The following is a list of certified nurses that are being recognized for their professionalism, leadership, and commitment to excellence in patient care:
Sarah Allen
Heather Davis
Tammie Henderson
Christina Mitsdarffer
Allison Savini
Dana Arseneau
Krista Davis
Renee Hess
Karen Moore
Mary Schore
Sara Baer-Leveque
Erin Dean
Sarah Himes
Victoria Morgan
Janella Schroeder
Abigail Banter
Afton Dearinger
Lindsay Hoekstra
Andrea Mouritzen
Deanna Schroeder
Krista Barton
Elizabeth Deck
Christin Hoffner
Laura Muehling
Marisa Schrum
Paula Blair
Lauren Decker
Amy Hornbuckle
Tammy Mylcraine
Barbara Schuch
Lisa Bodemer
Jessica DeGroot
Tenise Irvin
Wende Norris
Karla Schweigert
Deanna Booker
Rachel Denault
Keyoma Jamerson
Carrie O’Connor
Brittani Seagren
Bradley Boswell
Barbara DeYoung
Deborah Johnston
Lindsay O’Connor
Madhu Sharma
Kathryn Boudreau
Holly Dinello
Colleen Johnston
Erika Ohlendorf
Kimberly Shelanskey
Alyssa Brack
Victoria Dolan
Nicole Jones
Margaret Ondrey
Janice Sheridan
Mary Brandenburg
Jennifer Dole
Alexa Kieffer
Kaylene Opitz
Sharon Shoudis
Judi Brault
Olivia Dougherty
Sheila Kirchner
Natalie Palka
Jessica Simone
Timothy Brown
Jean Durell
Jill Kollmann
Neelie Panozzo
Jeanine Sims
Lori-Ann Bruer
Wendy Dyer
Carrie Kruse
Elaine Papineau
Michelle Smith
Jennifer Bruner
Rachel Edwards
Joanna Lambert
Maria Pappas
Nicole Smith
Keith Buza
Libertyana Erfe
Brenda Lamping
Tracey Peachey
Molly Smith
Amanda Cadle
Edwina Ferris
Christine Langellier
Nancy Peeler
Laura Snow
Tara Campo
Laura Fitzpatrick
Vanessa Latty
Sarah Penkas
Taylor St. Paul
Vanessa Capps
Carolina Ford
Rubi Lauvina
Ashley Perreault
Shana Teske
Rick Carlson
Paula Franklin
Deena Layton
Karlie Peters
Whitney Trevino
LaTivia Carr
Tiffany Furlan
Bethani Lewis
Heather Petkunas
Mandi Troli
Shambre Chambers
Kimberly Gaddis
Lynn Lochner
Jessica Pettigrew
Sarah Tudor
Ashley Chappell
Heather Gill
Kathryn Locke
Janet Phelan
Dione Valentino
Karen Cherry
Alejandra Gomez
Georgina Lopez
Barbara Pfingsten
Katherine Van Hoveln
Lynn Christian
Jacqueline Granger
Nicole Lopez
Billie Pollom
Laura Velasco
Andrea Cinnamon
Kaylee Gray
Kimberly Lyons
Julianne Post
Karen Verrill
Diane Clatterbuck
Carrie Greenley
Kris Madison
Julie Pranger
Daniel Wainwright
Becky Conroy
Shannon Greenquist
Jena Martis
Crystal Rath
Angel White
Dawn Corbin
Kathryn Hamblen
Tina Martis
Jessica Ray
Kelly White
Jeffrey Coto
Kendra Hansen
Caitlin McCarthy
Dena Reddick
Morgan Willbarger
Denys Crater
Angela Harre
Melissa McCue
Nicole Robinson
Elizabeth Wirth
Amy Creek
Barbara Hartman
Mellody McDonald
Cheryl Rogers
Maggie Worby
Cynthia Croyle
Tiffany Hartman
Teresa McKissack
Marissa Ruebhausen
Kristin Cyrier
Laura Healy
Brenda McLaren
Melissa Sanders
Chloe Dalton
Angela Heldt
Amy Memenga
Jenna Sarna
Note: We regret the omission of anyone who has a certification. This list is developed from staff turning in a copy of their credentials to the Organizational Development & Learning Department at Riverside. If we missed you this year, send a copy of your certification to [email protected]. THANK YOU for helping us keep our records up-to-date.
Nominate a fellow nurse for a DAISY Award
The DAISY Award is an international program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary compassionate and skillful care given by nurses every day.
Riverside Healthcare is proud to be DAISY Award Partner, recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor once a month.
About The DAISY Foundation
The DAISY Foundation was established in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes who died of complications of the auto-immune disease Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP) at the age of 33. (DAISY is an acronym for diseases attacking the immune system.) During Pat’s eight-week hospitalization, his family was awestruck by the care and compassion his nurses provided not only to Pat but to everyone in his family. So one of the goals they set in creating a Foundation in Pat’s memory was to recognize extraordinary nurses everywhere who make an enormous difference in the lives of so many people by the super-human work they do every day.
The DAISY Award
Each DAISY Award Honoree will be recognized at a ceremony in her/his unit and will receive a beautiful certificate, a DAISY Award pin, and a hand-carved stone sculpture entitled A Healer’s Touch.
Referral Bonus for RNs, LPNs & CNAs
Connect friends.
Earn rewards.
Program Guidelines:
- Referrals must submit your name upon application and/or interview.
- Referrals must meet all employment criteria for selection. (Final selection of candidates is based upon the decision of Human Resources and hiring department management.)
- Candidates must be offered and accept minimum .75 FTE position.
- RN referrals must have at least 1 year of experience as an RN.
- Only one referral bonus per hired RN or CNA. (In the event the same person is referred by more than one Riverside employee, the award will be based on the date the referral is received in Human Resources via application, interview or this referral form.)
- Program begins November 1, 2020. Referrals must begin employment on or before May 31, 2021.
- The referral bonus will be paid in two separate payments: the first half after the referred candidate has been employed for three months and the second half after the referred candidate has been employed for one year. Both employees (referring employee and referred employee) must be employed at the time of each payout. (All state and federal tax withholdings apply to bonus payouts.)
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