Planning for Our Path to Mastery

Last week Thursday the Luana Sponsor Team, a group of eight individuals from the Luana Core Team, met  for a half day Luana  planning session to kick-off our efforts to complete milestone one of the Eden Alternative's Path to Mastery curriculum, a requirement for renewing our Eden Home Registry. Our Luana Sponsor Team consisted of Saundra Gaskey, Tony Krieg, Medardo Legat, Connie Miller, Joyce Tengan, Ted Tucker, and myself. The Sponsor chose first to focus on the following four principles because they break up the antidotes to loneliness, helplessness, and boredom into more manageable action items:

• Loving companionship is the antidote to loneliness. Residents deserve easy access to human and animal companionship.
• A resident-centered community creates opportunity to give as well as receive care. This is the antidote to helplessness.
• A resident-centered community imbues life with variety and spontaneity by creating an environment in which unexpected and unpredictable interactions and happenings can take place. This is the antidote to boredom.
• Meaningless activity corrodes the human spirit. The opportunity to do things that we find meaningful is essential to human health.

Each of these principles reviewed, looking at the current reality of where we are now in fulfilling the principle, and what our desired outcome will ideally be. We scrutinized 36 items, and then began prioritizing them in order of importance. May of us struggled with selecting our top five, as everything seemed important, from educating the general public that Hale Makua doesn't have visiting hours, visitors are welcome at any time of the day, as are children and pets; to staff are excited about receiving care from residents. In the short time that we had to complete this task, we were able to focus on two areas, one at Hale Makua Kahului and one at Hale Makua Wailuku. The following is a list of responsibilities developed for each champion (person responsible for moving forward with the action plan), and the number one Luana priorities at each of the Hale Makua communities.

 

ALL Champions will be responsible for:

• Ensuring that the team meets and hits deadlines
• Model the behavior
• Articulate how the goal relates to the principle
• In charge of gathering resources and relaying to the team
• Collaborations with appropriate Senior leaders/managers
• Communicating with other community team (if one) and sponsor team
• Meetings are documented

Kahului #1 –  Staff view integrating variety and spontaneity as part of their job

Action Plan:

1.      Meet with nursing leadership (formal and informal leaders)

2.      Recruiting/inviting team members (voluntary)

3.      Schedule meeting

4.      Provide education on problem solving

5.      Asses the current state

6.      Create possible solutions

7.      Implement

8.      Test & monitor

9.      Adjust

Wailuku #1 – Meals are served when/what residents desire, consistently at the correct temperature

Action Plan:

1.     Recruiting/inviting team members (voluntary)

2.     Schedule meeting

3.     Provide education on problem solving

4.     Asses the current state

5.     Create possible solutions
6.     Implement
7.     Test & monitor
8.     Adjust