Ways to Improve Self-Management of Chronic Diseases

Posted on June 13, 2023 • No Comments

In supporting individuals living with chronic diseases, self-management plays a vital role. As a community worker in chronic disease care, you can empower and educate these individuals about the importance of self-management. Help them gain a sense of control over their conditions by promoting active participation in their own healthcare. Improve their overall quality of […]

Posted on May 24, 2023 • No Comments

In various settings, including in both rural and urban areas, community services workers like you play a vital role in delivering essential services to people. Whether you work in health assessments, patient support and follow-up, advocacy and outreach, cultural mediation, data collection and reporting, or health education, it can be challenging to ensure quality improvement […]

Posted on April 24, 2023 • No Comments

Community workers play an important role in supporting their communities and improving people’s well-being. However, given the challenges, the demands of the job can take a toll on their mental health. So as a community worker, you have to prioritise maintaining your mental and physical health and well-being. You cannot take care of others if […]

Posted on March 7, 2023 • No Comments

Quite often the things that challenge us in our life’s journey can present an opportunity to develop great strength. The interesting thing about our character is that often each trait we have has two sides, a bit like a coin. The Chinese culture is rich with powerful sayings, for example; Crisis is Opportunity | A […]

Posted on February 16, 2023 • No Comments

What’s on your mind? A staple of the human service sector is the idea of understanding a person’s cognition. Cognition has been described as, the mental processes that happen in the brain, Including. Where our attention is focused, what we think about, the use of language, how we learn, our memory and our unique perception […]

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Burnout Alert! Most of us are aware of the ideas behind Professional Boundaries. Ideas like avoiding conflict of interest, (when we stand to gain personally including family, friends, socially or financially from a decision made in the workplace). Or we might think about our conduct at work, (no inappropriate actions that can cause harm and […]

Posted on October 21, 2022 • No Comments

What is your why? You’ve decided to bite the bullet and go back to study. When people loose track of their ‘why’ they often struggle to find the energy to push through in their learning.

Posted on July 2, 2018 • No Comments

  Are you even qualified to do this? Imagine your next visit to the GP. During the examination you hold up your hand and enquire, “Sorry, but have you got a medical degree?” As if, right? But this is exactly the dilemma facing the Disability Industry today. It’s one of the few remaining care industry […]

Posted on April 6, 2018 • No Comments

Benefits of Online Training You know when you see a piece of clothing that shows one size fits all and you think yeah right! Well training and how it is delivered isn’t a ONE SIZE FITS ALL reality either.  With our busy lifestyles and work/ life commitments there needs to be flexibility for students to […]

Posted on March 23, 2018 • No Comments

Ideas for activities for the older person in Aged Care Australia’s population is ageing – we all know it. But the unanswered question remains: how to best support this precious demographic of humans through their golden years? There’s lots of ideas out there, but here’s just one that will make your life a lot easier […]