My compatriot, Geri Lynn Baumblatt, consults and advocates on the overlapping worlds of employees, family caregivers, employers, and support, especially in nursing. In short, bread winners also caring for family and friends with acute and chronic illnesses and disabilities. I picture these overlapping worlds as balloons mashing up against each other trying not to burst. If you’re a nurse, an employer, a boss, or a caregiving staff member, this chat about the Difference Collaborative is for you.

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Introducing Geri Lynn Baumblatt 00:55. 1

Caregiving, working, and social isolation 07:14. 2

Manager creates a culture. Not enough. 11:38. 3

Compassion fatigue 15:51. 4

Is anybody good at this? 16:59. 4

Recognizing success 23:11. 5

Flexibility, loyalty, retention 27:03. 6

To reveal or not to reveal 31:17. 7

Honor the caregivers. Help the helpers. 34:49. 8

Policy 37:20. 9

Reflections 40:01. 9

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Credits
Music by permission from Joey van Leeuwen, New Orleans Drummer, Composer

Sponsored by Abridge

Thanks to these fine people who inspired me for this episode: George Karavattuveeti, Carol Zindler, Olga Masevich, Pete Wendel, Alan Arriaga, Denise Brown, Mary Anne Sterling, Susan Murphy, Amber Soucy, MarlaJanWexler, Jeffrey Adams

Geri Lynn Baumblatt, MA

Geri grew up working in her dad's primary care practice. After her own experience with the healthcare system during grad school, she decided to help patients, families and clinicians connect, communicate, and navigate the habitrail that is the U.S. Health System.

In 2003, she joined the founders of Emmi Solutions  to design multimedia programs to educate patients and families, set expectations, equip them to ask important questions, augment informed consent, improve outcomes, and create a new channel for patient-clinician communication. Over the next 15 years, Geri designed a range resources to help people participate in shared decision making, care transitions, live with chronic conditions, and care for loved ones.

As an independent consultant she creates and tests resources for patients and families, helps organizations incorporate the patient and family voice into the development process, and design engagement and outcomes studies.

She recently co-founded the Difference Collaborative to help employers ensure working family caregivers maintain their health, employment, wellbeing, and sanity — and to create a culture of care so they can work, care, and thrive. They partner on research and bring together employers, employees, researchers, product/service providers, and advocacy groups to address this in the workplace. They recently conducted research on nurses who are family caregivers and hosted a summit on the topic .

She serves on the Board of the Society for Participatory Medici...