Under the new proposed rules, if you don’t start upon admission you’re already at risk for non-compliance.
Want to prevent lawsuits? Talk to us!
By
Kitty Foth-Regner
Jan 02, 2017
I’ve heard a lot of talk lately about suing nursing homes – not only from family members distraught over an elderly loved one’s injury or death in an SNF, but also from the growing chorus...
Only wet babies
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jan 30, 2024
I have a friend who says, “The only person who likes change is a wet baby!” She may be right. Most people are not comfortable with change. I mean, I get it, some change can be scary. When something...
Santa, you need a new category
By
Martie Moore
Dec 17, 2021
Unlike previous years, there are little or no postings on social media encouraging comments from “friends” on what they want to ask Santa to bring them. It is almost as if making public one’s heart’s...
Humanizing the workplace: Person-centered care requires a person-centered workplace
By
Nancy Anderson, RN, MA
Aug 31, 2018
When leaders create a caring work environment, employees in turn, are more willing and able to create a caring environment for patients and residents. It behooves us to create a person-centered workplace.
This is what your employees want
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 08, 2015
What persists and cannot fade, despite the best erasure efforts of days on a cross-country train, weeks of total detachment from the Internet and phone signals, AND 65 miles of arduous backpacking in mountains...
Put your paws together for this new nursing home celebrity
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 12, 2022
When she’s not shooting ad campaigns, Annie Rose is a therapy dog who works with seniors at nursing homes and retirement communities.
Be careful about showing appreciation during unstable times
By
Paul White
Oct 21, 2016
Sometimes well-meaning supervisors (and sometimes leaders who don’t want to do the hard work of dealing with problems) try to use appreciation as a “quick fix” for deeper issues that...
It is what it is until it isn’t
By
Kevin McMahon
Feb 02, 2015
I first heard, “it is what it is” from a tough-as-nails corporate nurse in a meeting held some 13 years ago. The reality was that we did not have a lot of room to negotiate the terms of whatever...
Thinking like a hospital
By
Elizabeth Newman
Mar 21, 2013
A provider conference session this week was called “Using War Games to Cope in Uncertain Times.” Its subtitle could have been “Act Like a Long-Term Care Organization, Think Like a Hospital.”