How do skilled nursing facilities, clinics and hospitals think about therapy? Focusing on patient satisfaction and revenue is a good start, but it is not enough. As therapy continues to be scrutinized...
Sentenced to a nursing home
By
Gary Tetz
Apr 29, 2014
Here’s an innovative new way, and maybe the only one you haven’t already tried, to make sure more people visit your lonely nursing home residents. Sentence them to do it.
Life after floss
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 11, 2016
So, now we learn that flossing is probably useless. It’s not even recommended anymore. The government said so.
Discharge instructions may equal confusion
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jul 12, 2016
Written discharge instructions shouldn’t be our only source of discharge education. I am a big fan of the teach-back method. That way you can be sure if your patient really understands the instructions...
Conversations nursing home management should not have via emails
By
Howard Kurman
Jun 09, 2014
There have been countless nursing home managers, supervisors, and even HR executives, who have committed impolitic comments about employees in email messages. Those comments often become evidence in cases...
Pressure injury or pressure ulcer: What’s in a name?
By
Martie Moore
May 23, 2016
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel recently made significant updates to the definitions and staging system for pressure ulcers to reflect the latest evidence and trending practice changes. Notably,...
Practical advice on reducing antipsychotics
By
Jerome Wilborn
May 08, 2015
Two CMS tags —F-Tag 329, which addresses unnecessarily using antipsychotic drugs, and F-Tag 309, which addresses taking steps to reduce antipsychotic drug use — are used by nursing home surveyors to...
No nurse is an island
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Mar 20, 2018
Let’s face it, healthcare is siloed enough without nurses running around with an “I’ll do it all on my own” attitude. Pride is a toxic condition no nurse can afford to suffer from.
Using the right filters when looking through the lens of healthcare reform
By
Martie Moore
Mar 30, 2016
I looked upward and suddenly spotted an eagle soaring with outstretched wings. With sun streaming through his feathers, I was sure I would capture one of the best pictures I had ever taken. I didn’t.
What’s in a name? … Adding insult to ulcer
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
May 17, 2016
Names have the ability to impact us in ways we may not imagine. What strongly comes to mind is the unintended consequences of the updated pressure ulcer staging recently released from the National Pressure...