{"id":166,"date":"2019-03-25T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/?p=166"},"modified":"2019-03-25T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T19:10:30","slug":"last-week-in-windy-welly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/2019\/03\/25\/last-week-in-windy-welly\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week in Windy Welly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First on my list of things to finish up here was to gain better understanding of the role of a nurse practitioner in the care of elders with dementia.&nbsp;&nbsp;So I was lucky enough to spend a morning with Lesley Maskery who is the nurse practitioner on the Mental Health for Older Persons interprofessional team.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each week the team gets referrals from general practitioners and others for comprehensive mental health assessments.&nbsp;&nbsp;The team includes: social worker, occupational therapist, geriatricians, geriatric psychologist, nurse, and nurse practitioner. This week they had 7 referrals and would divide up the tasks of completing the assessment. It\u2019s so inspiring to see highly functioning interprofessional teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesley took me to a facility which had senior apartments, rest home care (assisted living), and a dementia unit all on the same campus.\u00a0\u00a0In the dementia unit, the staff is able to call on the nurse practitioner for assistance with problem-solving behavioral issues and medications changes as needed. The facility had lots of outdoor space, gardens and even a nesting quail. A near-by kindergarten was visiting and sharing arts and crafts time with the residents. Our last stop was a 16 bed acute care gero-psych ward which is used for stabilization before placement elsewhere. That facility was equipped with all the physical features necessary, but clearly the most important component was the caring staff.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now I have a better sense of dementia care in this part of the world thanks to a lovely colleague who shares a similar passion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wellness activities for this week include: more swims in the 50 meter pool that is now right across the street from me, a spin on an Onzo bike since I have finally have borrowed a helmet, time on the Meridian Wind Sculpture Walkway, and one more yoga class in the beautiful Space studio high on Mount Victoria overlooking the Wellington harbor.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lucky me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/LJM-2018002-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/LJM-2018002-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/LJM-2018002-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/LJM-2018002.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Lesley Maskery NP helped me understand dementia care in NZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/windywell-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/windywell.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/windywell-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/files\/2019\/03\/windywell-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>This city embraces it&#8217;s wind!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First on my list of things to finish up here was to gain better understanding of the role of a nurse practitioner in the care of elders with dementia.&nbsp;&nbsp;So I was lucky enough to spend a morning with Lesley Maskery who is the nurse practitioner on the Mental Health for Older Persons interprofessional team.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpalumbo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}