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Check-In Plus: Your questions, answered

Change is hard at any organization, especially when it involves new employee procedures and policies. But with the right preparation and planning, change can often make a positive impact on your clients and staff.

We understand that you may have questions or concerns about SteadyCare Check-In Plus — any new system is bound to come with some uncertainty. With that in mind, we’ve provided answers to some of the most common questions we hear from our clients.

If you still have questions after reading through this list, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your SteadyCare customer success manager.

The Benefits of Shifting Your Circadian Rhythm for Night Shifts

Awake overnight staff may have the same responsibilities as daytime workers; but there’s an extra battle they have to fight: drowsiness.

Employee sleep deprivation can lead to a whole host of issues on the job, including confusion, poor productivity and accidents. In fact, sleep deprivation has been linked to some major historical disasters, such as Chernobyl and the Exxon oil spill.

8 Ideas to Stay Awake During Your Overnight Shift

8 Ideas To Stay Awake
Tips to stay awake during your awake overnight shift

1.) Chore and task lists
Having varied activities throughout the night can keep you active and awake.

Monitoring Your Staff: Big Brother or Safety System?

Awake overnight staff management, security check-ins at malls, and Electronic Visit Verification for home health aides are all examples of employee monitoring. The term “monitoring” has been a point of contention over the years—bouncing from bad to good to bad (and back again). The ambivalence surrounding this word deserves a little more exploration.

SteadyCare Presentation with Disability Cocoon Tech Huddle

SteadyCare recently sat down with Disability Cocoon for one of their weekly Tech Huddles. Take a look at the video to learn more about SteadyCare, and the Check-In Plus platform.

Presence Monitoring and Verification is Not an Add-on

Why You Should Choose SteadyCare Over a Workforce Management Solution That Treats Presence Monitoring Like an Add-On

By all means, your facility should probably be using a workforce management solution to meet the needs of your staff. But when it comes to employee monitoring and presence verification, you should trust SteadyCare to do the job. If an incident happens: being able to validate employee presence is a valuable resource to have. Being proactive with using presence monitoring and verification software can also help your agency reduce the likelihood of incidents occurring because of awake overnight staff issues.

SteadyCare Announces 2018 Silver Level Business Membership with Massachusetts Based ADDP

SteadyCare continues affiliation with The Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers (ADDP) in Massachusetts as a Silver Level Business Member for 2018. ADDP’s business program is designed to give for-profit businesses ways to connect with nonprofit organizations.

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What Does Dementia Mean?

Source: A Place For Mom
Senior care – resources & articles

You’ve probably heard the term “dementia,” but you may be uncertain about what it means. A fair amount of confusion and misconception surrounds the term. The media, and even some in the medical community, have increasingly begun to use the word “dementia” as a synonym for Alzheimer’s disease.

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Why You Should Choose SteadyCare Over a Workforce Management Solution That Treats Presence Monitoring Like an Add-On

Source: A Place For Mom Senior care – resources & articles

Source: A Place For Mom
Senior care – resources & articles