October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! At J&D Ultracare, we find this time of year extremely important because it gives us a chance to spread awareness to those that follow us. Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women, effecting 245,000 women every single year in the US according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC also found that 41,000 women die from breast cancer every single year in the US.

Not only does Breast Cancer Awareness Month help educate others, it also inspires a lot of people to take action and make a difference in the world. There is a great article on Healthline that explains what you can do to help called, “8 Actually Meaningful Things You Can Do for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.”

We wanted to highlight three things you can do from the Healthline article, but if you want to see the full list, you can read the original post by clicking here. Here are three actionable things from Healthline that you can do during Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

• Donate to research initiatives: Research is a critical need. Globally, metastatic breast cancer receives much less funding than early-stage breast cancer, even though it is the only form of breast cancer that you can actually die of. Most of the charitable money goes to basic research that has little clinical application. So when you’re looking for charities to donate to, it’s important to find ones that are trying to get an actual a cure to patients and not just giving lip service to the idea of “awareness.” StandUp2Cancer and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation are two excellent charities that are doing just that.
• Help out someone you know who has cancer: “Let me know if I can do anything for you.” Most of us with cancer hear that phrase often … and then never see that person again. The longer we are on treatment, the more we need help. We need our dogs walked, we need our kids to be driven somewhere, we need our bathrooms cleaned. So if you know somebody who has cancer, don’t ask how you can help. Tell them how you plan to. Don’t put the burden of asking for help on the cancer patient.
• Donate clothes to a chemo center: Did you know you can make a difference in a cancer patient’s life without even ever speaking to them? In every town, there are community oncologists who will accept donations of blankets, hats, or scarves. Due to privacy issues, you may not be able to actually talk to them, but you can talk to the staff at the front desk and ask if they are willing to accept items.

If you have used our 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 as well! We write a testimonial post every month, so please check out our blog here for future posts. If you are interested in working for us, you can send us your resume here.

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J&D Ultracare is a nursing agency that has been around since 1985. We’re extremely proud of the lives we’ve touched over the last 30 years and the testimonials we receive each month warm our hearts. Currently, we see clients in Rockland, Dutchess, Putnam County, Westchester, Sullivan, Ulster, and Orange Counties.

Recently, we wrote a fun article called “Four Activities For Kids In The Fall”, which you can read by clicking here. However, winter is also rapidly approaching, so we thought it would be a great idea to write about activities that you can do next season! Activities are important because bonding with your kids is just as important as keeping them healthy.

The ten activities listed below come from an article written by Jennifer Wolf on The Spruce, which you can read by clicking here. If you are interested in learning about more activities, we highly recommend you read the original post, as it contains 24 different and exciting winter activities.

Without further ado, here are ten winter activities from The Spruce:

• Make homemade hot cocoa with marshmallows.
• Go sledding together. Don’t forget to bundle up and bring the bike helmets for added safety!
• Make paper snowflakes and hang them up in unexpected places around your home.
• Go bowling. If your kids are young, try the duckpins for little ones.
• Use your phone’s camera to make a slow-motion video of the snow accumulating outside your window. Then send it to family members via email to show them how deep the snow really is!
• Make a graph showing each day’s high and low temperatures for the week. Then make predictions about next week and see who’s closest to each day’s actual temperature.
• Make ice cream using snow.
• Go roller skating at an indoor rink that plays your favorite music.
• Have a snowball fight. If your kids are different ages/sizes, set a few ‘ground rules’ up front.
• Play board games together, and be sure to introduce the kids to some of your favorites!

If you have used our 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 as well! We write a testimonial post every month, so please check out our blog here for future posts. If you are interested in working for us, you can send us your resume here.

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Welcome to this month’s testimonial post! Every month, we receive tons of reviews from happy parents. This is because our nurses provide professional and specialized care to children in the comfort of their home. Reading these testimonials inspire us to work harder for those that depend on us, so thank you to everyone that has written one so far!

Typically, we highlight testimonials written by parents, like the ones listed on our testimonials page. However, we want to continue the trend we started in last month’s post by looking at testimonials from our own nurses! These are great to read because they show how much our nurses enjoy helping others at J&D Ultracare.

The reviews below were written by Lakisha and Joleen on Google. Here’s what they had to say about us:

• Lakisha Rayford: “Best Agency! Been with this company almost 1 year and they are stuck with me! Even when i finish school for my RN i will continue to work with them. The Agency is more family Orientated , from the Amazing staffing coordinator and the awesome Case coordinators, Plenty of cases and they work with your schedule if you are in school or have children and I have some great patients and family members who i absolutely adore Give them a call you wont be disappointed Tell them i sent you!”
• Joleen: “I have been a private duty nurse with J&D for almost 5 years. The office staff is very supportive, helpful and friendly…They also make sure you and the family/child are a good fit. If it doesn’t work out they have other patients you can work with. I love the families I work with and consider them friends. Most of the patients are children. I have one adult patient who is great to work with as well. I highly recommend J& D for nurses looking for work and for families that need nurses. They are professional and very knowledgeable. Best home care agency around here!”

If you have used our 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 as well! We write a testimonial post every month, so please check out our blog here for future posts. If you are interested in working for us, you can send us your resume here.

Are you following us 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!

For over thirty years, J&D Ultracare has been providing professional nursing services to those in need. We are the first and only agency to specialize in pediatrics in the Hudson Valley, making us extremely proud of the lives we’ve helped over the years. Currently, we see clients in Rockland, Dutchess, Putnam County, Westchester, Sullivan, Ulster, and Orange Counties.

We use our blog to give advice to parents that are taking care of their children. A couple of weeks ago, we wrote a post called “First Steps To Take For Soothing Your Child’s Cold”, which you can check out by clicking here. This week, we wanted to talk about ways you can take care of your children if they have chickenpox.

We are providing four tips below from a great article written by the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). If the topic interests you, the full article includes six tips that you can read here. Here are four tips from the AAD’s website:

1. Keep your child at home. Since chickenpox is contagious, keep your child at home or limit his or her exposure to other people until all of their chickenpox blisters have formed scabs and no new blisters develop. It usually takes about a week for the blisters to become scabs.
2. Soak in colloidal oatmeal baths. Available at your local drugstore, colloidal oatmeal will help relieve some of the itch. Add the oatmeal under the faucet while the tub is filling with lukewarm – not hot – water.
3. After bathing, apply a topical ointment, such as calamine lotion, petroleum jelly or another fragrance-free, anti-itch lotion that contains pramoxine or menthol and camphor. Avoid over-the-counter topical antibiotics as they may cause an allergic reaction.
4. Relieve fever. Use nonaspirin medications, such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen. Do not use aspirin or products that contain aspirin with chickenpox. The use of aspirin in children with chickenpox has been associated with Reye’s syndrome – a severe disease that affects the liver and brain and can cause death.

If you have used our 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 as well! We write a testimonial post every month, so please check out our blog here for future posts. If you are interested in working for us, you can send us your resume here.

Are you following us 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!