The Direct Care News 
For direct care workers and their allies August 7, 2012
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What Makes Direct Care Workers Stay
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 | | Ameia Yen-Patton |
Ameia Yen-Patton is a nurse, educator, and researcher who has worked as a gerontological nurse practitioner in acute care, home care, and nursing homes in for more than 25 years. She recently earned a PhD in nursing. Last month, she talked to us about what she learned while researching her PhD thesis, which focuses on key causes of job satisfaction or frustration for direct care workers and their supervisors.
What did you measure in your research?
We were measuring the amount of reciprocal ethical caring that was present in nursing home staff. Those who had a strong sense of reciprocal ethical caring, both personally and professionally, can be predicted to stay. Those who are not connected in that way will not stay. Read more.
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Direct from Washington, DC
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Health care reform expands coverage for women: As of August 1, all new health plans must cover a variety of women's preventive services, including well woman visits, contraceptive methods and counseling, and screening and counseling for interpersonal and domestic violence. Women cannot be charged a co-payment or co-insurance for these services, nor will they need to pay out-of-pocket for them if they have not yet met their deductible. This is particularly important to direct care workers, approximately 90% of whom are female. Learn more about Women's Preventive Services and why the Affordable Care Act is good for direct care workers.
Congressional leaders reach agreement to avoid government shutdown: On July 31, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and President Obama reached an agreement to keep federal government operations funded through March 2013, avoiding a government shutdown at the end of the current fiscal year on September 30. The House and Senate will vote on the bill, which is being written during Congress' August recess, when they return to Washington, DC in September.
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The Ability to Love at the Day Activity Center (for Dave H)
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 | | David Moreau |
In the back building on Sabattus St.,
I used to think your eyes were like the eyes
of God, welcoming, attentive, bemused.
You needed those eyes, for though you could
whip your head around when a pretty girl
came in the room, that was all you could move
and your eyes were your arms, legs, hands
and voice. I'd hold two fingers in front of you
and you looked. Yankees - Red Sox?
Democrats - Republicans? Recliner by the window -
wheelchair at the table?
Read the rest of David Moreau's poem
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