Author: Liz Healy
It’s New. It’s Awesome. The new HeartCode BLS CPR is HERE at Riverside!
It’s New. It’s Awesome. The new HeartCode BLS CPR is HERE at Riverside!
All new at Riverside is the new and improved rQI HeartCode® BLS. HeartCode is an official AHA program that blends online self-directed learning and hands-on testing using voice-assisted manikins. The online training, completed in OLIE, is updated to the most current CPR guidelines. The course allows you to choose your own adventure, respecting your CPR expertise. You can choose Novice to Expert, and the training adapts to you.
The hands-on skills portion is on a brand-new skills station and it’s vastly improved from the previous station. It gives better feedback than ever to help make sure your skills are where they need to be to help save a life. Upon completion of the skills and a short evaluation, your new official AHA BLS CPR e-card good for two years is immediately available to you in OLIE.
Our new skills stations are available in B307 at Riverside Medical Center 24-7 (sign posted on door if class in session in the room) and at Riverside’s ODL Department Monday thru Friday at KCC’s North Extension Center on Kinzie in Bradley.
Also new this year is a travelling skills station. Have a team of staff at an offsite location needing BLS CPR?
Contact ODL to reserve the station to come to your team for up to a week.
To get started—any Riverside employee may log into OLIE and search for: Heartcode
For more information, contact ODL at 22701 or 815-935-3276.
We love our new HeartCode and believe you will too!
Choose to Lose: Week 2
Week Two: The Recipe for a Healthy Weight
| “A goal without a plan is simply a wish.” |
Long-term, healthy weight management calls on many areas of your lifestyle – much like a recipe calls on the interconnectedness of its ingredients. Areas like stress mitigation, quality rest, exercise and of course proper nutrition all play a big role in achieving your healthy weight. Throughout this challenge we will highlight ways you can make lasting adjustments in each of these lifestyle areas – your plan for success.
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 start reporting.
Well in Mind: How to Leave Your Worries Behind
Approximately 2 in 5 people say they worry every day. The average adult spends about 1 hour and 50 minutes worrying about something. Worry can negatively influence your memory, relationships, and physical health, yet 85% of what we worry about actually has a positive or neutral outcome! Here are 14 ways to leave your worry behind:
- Ditch the night owl: Keeping regular sleep hours lessens negative thinking/worry.
- Do yoga: People with anxiety benefit from regular yoga practice.
- Be mindful: Mindfulness and meditation practices help reduce worry.
- Higher power: Fostering a belief that a higher power has your best interest at heart helps.
- Exercise: People who exercise are able to improve their mood and reduce worry.
- Declutter: Taking 15 minutes to tidy your space can reduce anxiety.
- Gratitude: Express gratitude at least once per day.
- Drop the cookies: Sugar and processed foods increase anxiety.
- Quiet time: Even 5 minutes of quiet time per day can reduce anxiety.
- Problem-Solve: Grab a pen and spend time brainstorming solutions to the worries in your control.
- Worry time: Set a specific time each day dedicated to worrying. When worries pop up at other times, jot them down and know you can think about them later
- Reframe: Ask yourself if the worry is true, if it’s not, consider how unhelpful it is to think about it.
- Middle Road: There are worst-case and best-case scenarios, make sure you identify the middle of the road option, it’s always the most likely outcome.
- Talk it out: Often when we say our worries out loud, it changes the way we see the situation. Talk to yourself, a loved one, a co-worker, or call Well In Mind.
Well In Mind is here for you. Call 815-933-2240 to schedule an appointment or toask about your EAP benefits.
Choose to Lose: Week 1
Week One: The Choose to Lose Challenge Starts Today!
Keep your waistline in check by taking part in the Choose to Lose Challenge!
To complete this challenge, log your weight at least once a week for all eight weeks. The challenge begins today, Feb. 15 and ends April 11.
You will have until April 18 to finish reporting your final weigh-in.
Complete the challenge to earn 25 Healthy Habit points.
Visit www.RiversideHealthcare.org/REACH from your desktop or mobile device to start reporting.
Riverside SERVE Day
At Riverside, our mission is clear: we offer our highest thinking, our kindest touch, and our strongest commitment to excellence.
Join us in lending a helping hand to our community at Riverside SERVE Days at Center of Hope Food Pantry on March 22, 23, and 24. Sign yourself up or, better yet, recruit your work team to serve together. You earn a free t-shirt and 25 REACH points for participating.
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