Blogs, Guest Columns, Things I Think and Living Leadership
Vacation envy, or ‘How to get your groove back’
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Jul 03, 2018
Our work is important and the attitude with which we complete our tasks matters. If your vacation break is behind you, or so far ahead that you wonder how you’re going to make it, try these ideas...
Keeping residents safe with disaster preparedness plans
By
Michael Bugenhagen
Jul 02, 2018
Last year, the nation watched as Hurricane Harvey dumped torrential rainfall across the south, leaving homes and businesses in shambles.
How SNFs are cutting costs without cutting back on care
By
Betsy Rust
Jun 29, 2018
As if managing the health of patients wasn’t difficult and time-consuming enough, skilled nursing facilities now have to do more to manage their increasingly complex businesses as well.
Dangers in the night
By
Gary Tetz
Jun 28, 2018
In the long-term care profession, we exist to provide care to vulnerable seniors, and like the rest of us, they tend to exist 24/7.
Attorneys general seek greater punishment for nursing homes: A counterproductive approach?
By
Alan C. Horowitz, Esq., RN
Jun 27, 2018
At the end of May, attorneys general from 16 states and the District of Columbia signed a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar urging him “to reconsider this regulatory rollback.” The “rollback” the...
Liar, liar, pants on fire
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jun 26, 2018
Does anybody remember when you last said the phrase in the title? I bet you said it when you heard something so outrageous that without a doubt you knew it wasn’t true. So why as nurse leaders do...
Amid dire economic reports, wasteful Medicare spending must stop
By
Kristin Walter
Jun 25, 2018
Given the significant financial pressures facing our federal government and with the health and economic security of nearly 48 million American seniors on the line, Congress must act now to authorize CMS...
All the data points to … you tell me
By
Steven Littlehale
Jun 22, 2018
Returning from an early morning walk down to the harbor of this sleepy Cape Cod town, it’s hard not to feel hopeful. My geriatric pups Melvin and Theodore couldn’t get enough of the sea smells...
Grandmother-level quality
By
Renee Kinder
Jun 21, 2018
My grandmother decided to have an elective knee replacement — at 89 years of age — followed by a stay for rehab in a skilled nursing facility. Quality matters to her and therefore I wanted to know...
Stories in action: Sign language and lilacs
By
Julie Thorson
Jun 20, 2018
Story telling centers us, grounds us and reminds us why we do the work we do.