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Kickstart Kindness

Now is your chance to cause a ripple effect that can affect your entire community while making you happier and healthier -- simply by being kind.

Kindness: Harboring a spirit of helpfulness, being genuine and considerate, and doing so expecting nothing in return. The quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. “Be kind whenever possible, it is always possible” Dalai Lama

Empathy: Ability to understand and accurately acknowledge the feelings of another, leading to an affirmed response from the observer. The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

Compassion: Desire to understand and alleviate the pain and misfortune of others. Intense interest and respect for others. Sympathetic concern for the suffering or misfortunate of others.

Be Kind to Your Heart during Heart Health Month

Here are a few resources for ideas to spread kindness throughout your life:
- Writing a Thank-You Note is more powerful than you think
- Enjoy some creative ways to be kind, as shared by Reader's Digest.
- The Mayo Clinic's Kickstart Kindness Program presents many ideas of ways to be kind throughout your day, week, month and beyond.  Visit here to participate.
- "Pay it forward."  Visit here for ideas.
- Each month RWJMS shares A Weekly View: Special Edition -- Kindness Corner that provides quotes and other sources of kindness and inspiration as a reminder to lead with kindness and to incorporate kindness into your business practices and employee communications.

How Kindness Benefits Our Patients

Kindness is relevant, important, and critical to our patient’s current and long-term outcomes.

Reforming the culture of healthcare: the case for intelligent kindness https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/reforming-the-culture-of-healthcare-the-case-for-intelligent-kindness/61BE20409A5D80340AC35BFD437A23A2?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark

Working with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, we have created KindOR℠ and CareOR℠ to plans of care that include kindness efforts. This includes small efforts of kindness such as:

Drawn heart image with the words KindOR Advocate

Greeting patients with a Knowing Smile
Deep Listening
Timely Care
Gentle Touch

Drawn image of the world with the words CareOR

Timely Pain Control
Hold Hand (Walk to OR)
Gently Guided
Foot Massage, Warm Blanket, Quick Scheduling

- Pays big dividends
- Requires no formal training
- Anyone can perform an act of kindness
- It's contagious!
- You can start right now!

Kickstart Kindness

Kindness Resources

How Kindness Benefits Our Patients

Kindness is relevant, important, and critical to our patient’s current and long-term outcomes.

Working with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, we have created KindOR℠ and CareOR℠ to plans of care that include kindness efforts. This includes small efforts of kindness such as:

Bottom Line on Kindness

Pays big dividends

Requires no formal training

Anyone can perform an act of kindness

It's contagious!

You can start right now!

Kickstart Kindness

Kindness Resources

How Kindness Benefits Our Patients

Kindness is relevant, important, and critical to our patient’s current and long-term outcomes.

Working with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, we have created KindOR℠ and CareOR℠ to plans of care that include kindness efforts. This includes small efforts of kindness such as:

Bottom Line on Kindness

Pays big dividends

Requires no formal training

Anyone can perform an act of kindness

It's contagious!

You can start right now!

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