Residents and families across NZ share a specific memory or message for a nurse
Contributors share an appreciation or recollection through a simple guided process, often led by the activities team.
Aged care wellbeing · New Zealand
The words your
The words your
nurses never hear.
Steddly sends anonymised appreciation from aged care residents and families directly to your nursing team — three times a week.
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How it works
Three steps. No burden on your team.
Messages are anonymised, edited for clarity, and pooled nationally — no message is tied to any facility
No names, no identifying details. Contributions are anonymised and distributed across the national pool before delivery.
Nurses receive three messages per week by SMS, drawn from the national pool — not just their own facility
Each nurse on the programme receives three supportive, human-voiced texts per week — timed to their shift pattern.
"There was a night nurse who always said my mother's name when she came in, even when Mum was too confused to respond. I still think about that."
"What you do matters far more than you will ever know."
Real words. Real people.
Appreciation that actually comes from somewhere.
Every message in the Steddly pool comes from a real person — a resident, a family member, a friend. Anonymised so it can travel further. Human so it lands.
Why it works
Built around what the research actually says.
Aged care nurses carry a weight most programmes can't reach
Nurses in NZ aged care report the highest burnout rates of any nursing specialty. Standard wellbeing initiatives were not designed for this environment or this level of sustained emotional load.
Existing tools don't reach shift workers
Wellbeing apps, team huddles, and manager check-ins assume a regular schedule. Most aged care nurses work rotating shifts and rarely see these programmes land in practice.
Human-voiced appreciation is different
When nurses hear the actual words of a resident or family member — even anonymised — it reconnects them to why they work in care. That is not something a corporate wellness platform can replicate.
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