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tdowe | 
29th Mar 2009 at 10:31 | 192 views | 
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With all of the uncertainty that life can deliver it’s essential to know your Purpose…how else will you know where to focus your energy? Spend your time or make a contribution to this life? And yet….so many of us drift along feeling lost and never looking for the answer. We know we have a purpose for being here…..how do we find it though??
Simple. We just need to ask better questions, give ourselves a little “me” time to answer those questions and be hones...
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tdowe | 10th Apr 2008 at 10:40 | 343 views | 0 comments(s)
What are they and what should you do?
Side Effect - An unpleasant effect of a drug that happens in addition to the main effect of that drug.
Adverse Reaction - A negative or harmful effect caused by a medicine
Interaction - When one medicine affects the way that another medicine works in the body, potentially to a harmful effect.
Contra-indication: - A sign that someone should not continue with a particular medicine or treatment because it is or might be harmful.
Side effects and adverse re...
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tdowe | 10th Apr 2008 at 10:37 | 347 views | 0 comments(s)
How much do you know about the services that pharmacies offer which make could make life easier for both you and your service users?
Most pharmacies offer some form of prescription collection and/or delivery service. Many pharmacies will also order the prescription on the patient’s behalf too, they keep the repeat and you let them know what you need – cutting out yet another step of the process for the service user. Ask your pharmacy about repeat medication services.
As well as pre...
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tdowe | 02nd Apr 2008 at 11:26 | 278 views | 0 comments(s)
Self confidence seems to be a rare and much sought after commodity in this day and age. It is the one thing that clients come to me for help with more than any other challenge. It is important to your self-esteem, to your self image, to your relationships, to your career and to your business.
Beliefs – The Root of All Evil
A lack of self confidence has it’s roots in beliefs. Beliefs about who you are, what you are capable of, what you look like, what others think of you. Those beli...
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tdowe | 01st Apr 2008 at 10:11 | 538 views | 0 comments(s)
It’s my experience that people do business with people that they know, like and trust. If you could build stronger relationships with your potential clients faster –would that be of value to you and to your business?
Yes? Then read on.
People like people who are like themselves or who they aspire to become.
Have you ever met a perfect stranger and yet felt instantly comfortable with them? As if you’ve know them for ages.
Have you ever though, met som...
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tdowe | 06th Mar 2008 at 11:28 | 348 views | 0 comments(s)
Compliance aids are used extensively in social care and I would like to take this opportunity to clear up a few myths about them if I may.
Myth #1
In order to support a service user with his or her medication it must be in a monitored dosage system (MDS)
This is incorrect. There is absolutely no legal or ethical reason why medication needs to be in a monitored dosage system. It can just as easily and safely be supported from bottles, boxes and original packs as long as the correct che...
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tdowe | 06th Mar 2008 at 09:24 | 231 views | 0 comments(s)
Before any support with medication can happen in care the service user must give their consent. In order to give informed consent they must first be given all of the information they require to make a decision about their level of care. It is important that information is shared freely with the service user, this will include providing patient information leaflets to your service users, and if necessary reading and explaining these to them if they are not able to do this themselves.
A service u...
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tdowe | 05th Mar 2008 at 11:16 | 626 views | 0 comments(s)
Weight Loss and dieting are something that will be on the minds of many of you as the weather starts to get better and our thoughts turn to those summer holidays. There are hundreds of diets and exercise programs out there to choose from yet it’s more a function of how we think than what we eat. ‘Yo-yo’ dieting is an all too common occurrence. Why do we eat foods we KNOW add weight and inches to our waist and hips? Why do we sit in front of the tube for hours at a time instead ...
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tdowe | 05th Mar 2008 at 10:36 | 299 views | 0 comments(s)
It’s just coming up to two years since I moved to Swindon. I lived in a four bedroom house with lots of cupboard space, wardrobe space, attic space and a big garage. All that space is great to have, you can fill it with everything you collect over the years and hardly notice it’s there. And I filled every space to full rather than throw stuff out. How many of you have spaces just like these that you fill with all kinds of stuff you don’t know what to do with? Maybe you ke...
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tdowe | 19th Feb 2008 at 11:21 | 135 views | 0 comments(s)
Your mind is an amazing, powerful and creative tool. With it you have an awesome capacity to change how you feel long-term by creating your future right now.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. - William A. Ward
You not only have the ability to remember events and re-run them in your mind, but you are also capable of creating events or feelings in your imagination before they actually occur. You do this all the time; when you are looking...
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