Exciting opportunity for our In-House team at J&D Ultracare.

Registered Nurse with nursing experience in a community health, public health, or home care setting. Position requires the coordination and the integration of case management functions into the patient care, discharge, and home planning processes with families, hospital departments, external service organizations, agencies and healthcare facilities. Serves as a patient advocate.

Important to the position, the individual must possess:

Planning, organizational and prioritization skills

Attention to detail and accuracy

Flexibility and adaptability

Flexibility to perform both office and field based work.

Must be computer literate.

Job Type: Full-time, M-F

Please call or apply now if you or someone you know who may be interested in this position. 845-357-4500

J&D Ultracare is a professional home care nursing agency that has been helping the medically fragile population since 1985. Today, we are still the only agency in the Hudson Valley devoted primarily to pediatrics and we are extremely proud of the work our nurses have done to help those in need. If you want to learn more about J&D Ultracare, see what people are saying about us on our testimonial page by clicking here.

Valentine’s Day is coming soon in February! There is no better way to celebrate than to involve your kids in the festivities. The more you involve your kids in regular activities, the happier they will be. That’s why we wanted to talk about four different Valentine’s Day activities that you can do with your kids this year!

These four tips come for an article on Super Healthy Kids. If you like these ideas and want more, the full article contains fourteen fun activities that you can do with children. You can find the full article by clicking here, otherwise, here are four of our favorites from the post:

• Make Valentine heart love notes: Decorate your child’s door with love notes.  Use construction paper hearts and fill them with things you love or appreciate about him for him to wake up to on Valentine’s Day.  Or start on February 1 (or whenever you choose) and post one or two hearts each night.
• Decorate the house: Have everyone participate in decorating the house with homemade or store bought decorations.  Use Valentine’s cards from years past to decorate as well. 
• Make gift certificates: Have the family make gift cards for one another.  A few that would be well received in my house would be “I will do one chore for you,” “I will play Legos with you for 15 minutes,” and “Let’s make a Saturday morning pancake breakfast.”
• Get cookin’ in the kitchen: Get everyone involved in creating Valentine’s Day breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner.  Children of all ages can help with various kitchen tasks.

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At J&D Ultracare, we strive to provide the best nursing services that we can to the medically fragile population. For over 35 years, our nurses have taken care of children in their own homes to make sure they feel as comfortable as possible. Helping others is what we love to do and we’re glad we can make a difference in the world at J&D Ultracare!

However, it’s not just our nurses that keep these kids healthy, it’s the parents too! There are things that parents can easily do, like forming good eating habits, to make sure their kids are happy and healthy. That’s why this week, we want to discuss three different tips you can incorporate to get your kids to eat healthier.

The three tips below come from a fantastic article on Kid’s Health. If you find these tips helpful, you can check out the original post by clicking here, which contains ten different tips for parents. Here’s what the article says:

1. Parents control the supply lines. You decide which foods to buy and when to serve them. Though kids will pester their parents for less nutritious foods, adults should be in charge when deciding which foods are regularly stocked in the house. Kids won’t go hungry. They’ll eat what’s available in the cupboard and fridge at home. If their favorite snack isn’t all that nutritious, you can still buy it once in a while so they don’t feel deprived.

2. From the foods you offer, kids get to choose what they will eat or whether to eat at all. Kids need to have some say in the matter. Schedule regular meal and snack times. From the selections you offer, let them choose what to eat and how much of it they want. This may seem like a little too much freedom. But if you follow step 1, your kids will be choosing only from the foods you buy and serve.

3. Quit the “clean-plate club.” Let kids stop eating when they feel they’ve had enough. Lots of parents grew up under the clean-plate rule, but that approach doesn’t help kids listen to their own bodies when they feel full. When kids notice and respond to feelings of fullness, they’re less likely to overeat.

If you have used J&D Ultracare’s nursing services in the past, please consider writing us a review by clicking here. Not only does this help spread the word about J&D Ultracare, you may also be featured in an upcoming testimonial post on the blog!

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J&D Ultracare is a professional home care nursing agency that has been providing help to the medically fragile population since 1985. We have seen patients in Rockland, Dutchess, Putnam, Westchester, Sullivan, Ulster, and Orange Counties. If you want to see what people are saying about us, you can check out our testimonials page by clicking here. You can also call us at 845-357-4500 to learn more about J&D Ultracare.

As the first and only agency in the Hudson Valley dedicated to pediatrics, we love to write posts for parents here on the J&D Ultracare blog. For example, we wrote a post called “Three Ways To Help Your Children Take Medicine” to give some creative parenting ideas. This week, we want to talk about some parenting tips that will help your kids develop good habits!

The following two tips were selected from an article on Kid’s Health, which has nine different parenting tips to read. If you find this interesting and want to read more, we highly recommend you check out the original post by clicking here. Without further ado, here are two effective parenting tips from Kid’s Health:

1. Boosting Your Child’s Self-Esteem

Kids start developing their sense of self as babies when they see themselves through their parents’ eyes. Your tone of voice, your body language, and your every expression are absorbed by your kids. Your words and actions as a parent affect their developing self-esteem more than anything else.

Praising accomplishments, however small, will make them feel proud; letting kids do things independently will make them feel capable and strong. By contrast, belittling comments or comparing a child unfavorably with another will make kids feel worthless.

Avoid making loaded statements or using words as weapons. Comments like “What a stupid thing to do!” or “You act more like a baby than your little brother!” cause damage just as physical blows do.

Choose your words carefully and be compassionate. Let your kids know that everyone makes mistakes and that you still love them, even when you don’t love their behavior.

2. Catch Kids Being Good

Have you ever stopped to think about how many times you react negatively to your kids in a given day? You may find yourself criticizing far more often than complimenting. How would you feel about a boss who treated you with that much negative guidance, even if it was well intentioned?

The more effective approach is to catch kids doing something right: “You made your bed without being asked — that’s terrific!” or “I was watching you play with your sister and you were very patient.” These statements will do more to encourage good behavior over the long run than repeated scoldings.

Make a point of finding something to praise every day. Be generous with rewards — your love, hugs, and compliments can work wonders and are often reward enough. Soon you will find you are “growing” more of the behavior you would like to see.

If you have used J&D Ultracare’s nursing services in the past, please consider writing us a review by clicking here. Not only does this help spread the word about J&D Ultracare, you may also be featured in an upcoming testimonial post on the blog!

Are you following J&D Ultracare on social media? If not, please consider liking us on Facebook! This is one of the best ways to support our agency, plus it’s great for keeping yourself up to date on the posts we’re writing. Click here to be taken to our Facebook page and learn more.