RESIDENT CONSULTANT

Resident Consultant

 

---A Resident Consultant - is a resident who realizes that staff often time projects what it is like to be a resident and makes decisions, accordingly. A resident consultant is one who actually is or has been a resident and knows he/she can add an experience that brings more of a reality into the mix. He or she affects change by particularly injecting thoughts on what is ‘’focused’’ on in the nursing inservices. [The inservices that directly affect the resident-caregiver relationship.]

 

----A resident consultant has the wherewithal to do this. He/she has a first-hand knowledge of life as a resident and is willing to spend time in this capacity. The consultant would be as much the same as a consultant in a movie being made. They make sure that things are relevant and realistic, hence done more efficiently, to be sure that the caregiver, volunteer and the resident ALL work together, optimally.

 

---The objective of a program like this is to put staff, volunteer and resident more on the same page. If the correct people are involved on all sides…I don’t see how this can be a negative growth issue.