Nurses make far fewer injection errors when guidelines are more understandable
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 07, 2020
Intravenous injections are more than twice as safe when nurses use instructions written with their training in mind, a new study shows.
Morning walks may aid sleep after heart bypass surgery
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 07, 2020
Patients with insomnia related to surgery were better able to fall asleep and sleep continuously with a program of aerobic treadmill walking.
AMDA endorses a national medical order to honor frail residents’ wishes
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 06, 2020
A nationally recognizable POLST form would give seriously ill or frail seniors the ability to communicate treatment preferences across care settings, the organization says.
Flu season may be ‘devastating,’ officials warn
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 01, 2020
“The real risk is that we’re going to have two circulating respiratory pathogens at the same time,” says CDC director Robert Redfield, M.D.
Standardize N95 respirators for all inpatient COVID-19 encounters, conclude analysts
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 01, 2020
N95 respirators should be required for all workers caring for COVID-19 inpatients, not only those performing aerosol-generating procedures, write the authors of a new data review.
Bi-monthly virtual conference to share COVID-19 best practices
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 26, 2020
The Green House Project will convene long-term care experts to share “proven protocols and lessons learned.” Participants will have a chance to receive feedback regarding their own cases and questions.
Collaborative model helps reduce antipsychotic drug use
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 25, 2020
Training and support leads to discontinuation of antipsychotic meds in residents who do not have a diagnosis of psychosis or mental health issues, researchers have found. Notably, behavioral symptoms did...
Blood coagulation issues and other COVID-19 manifestations can cause sometimes unavoidable skin injuries that appear to be pressure wounds. Clinicians should be aware of this when diagnosing and reporting...
Residents who do these two things most likely to live 100 years
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John O'Connor
Jun 23, 2020
Older adults who are socially engaged and don’t smoke dramatically improve their chances of living to age 100, researchers in New Zealand have found.
Can grapes halve a person’s dementia risk?
By
John O'Connor
Jun 22, 2020
People who eat a handful of grapes twice a day might cut their Alzheimer’s disease risk virtually in half, a new study suggests.