Accountability and better, user-friendly systems encourage a new wave of e-prescribing adoptions among long-term care providers, despite old challenges
A national preventive program that promotes evidence-based infection prevention and control practices can curb the risk of infection by streamlining the dissemination of information to nursing home staff.
Study: RNs better trained to identify high-risk Rx errors
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2018
Registered nurses may be more likely than licensed practical nurses to identify high-risk medication errors in nursing homes, new research suggests.
Nurses modify meds as ‘necessary evil’
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2018
A study of geriatric care nurses found that many still crush medications, split doses or otherwise modify orally administered medicines — a practice they see as helping patients with swallowing difficulties,...
Training feasible even when cash is tight
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2018
Videoconferencing is one of the best ways to make ongoing education for geriatric workers more feasible, a study at a for-profit skilled nursing facility in Chicago shows.
Death leads to edict: Facility must mitigate the risk of falls — on its roof
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2018
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has given a skilled nursing facility in Ohio until Friday to remedy roof safety issues after a telecommunications worker fell to his death.
12 years and counting: McKnight’s Online Expo returns March 14-15
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 07, 2018
Set a reminder: McKnight’s Spring Online Expo, where participants can earn up to five free continuing education credits, is scheduled for March 14 and 15.
Withering report on misuse of antipsychotics in nursing homes overlooks industry efforts to improve,...
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 06, 2018
Those who care for the nation’s seniors have been leaders in reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications in skilled nursing settings, advocates said Monday in response to a scathing...
Lawsuit seeks $50 million from nursing home, police who blinded Alzheimer’s resident with pepper-spray
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 06, 2018
The estate of an Alzheimer’s patient who was pepper-sprayed, arrested and hospitalized after a wandering incident is suing his nursing home and the local police department for $50 million.
Witnesses say some Hollywood Hills victims could have been saved after Hurricane Irma
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 05, 2018
Several medical experts told a Florida judge this week some residents who died of heat stroke at the Hollywood Hills Rehabilitation Center could have been saved, if the nursing home had acted sooner and...