Primer helps social networking novices conquer the digital divide
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McKnight's Staff
May 30, 2012
“Overcoming the Digital Divide” is an easy-to-read primer for anyone trying to survive in an increasingly digital world. Long-term care professionals and others can learn how to use social...
QI Survey’s further incursion into dining activities to be featured focus at audio conference
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McKnight's Staff
May 04, 2012
An audio conference will take place Tuesday morning in an effort to help long-term care providers create more efficient interdisciplinary approaches with their dining regimens. Under new QI Survey points...
Current trends, future problems for nursing home surveys to be focus of Super Tuesday webcast
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McKnight's Staff
Apr 13, 2012
Providers will get an up-close look at problems with the nursing home survey process from a nationally respected expert during the first 2012 McKnight’s Super Tuesday webcast. The event will take...
Pregame is over: Providers must deal with survey and assessment changes for real starting Sunday
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McKnight's Staff
Mar 30, 2012
Nursing homes have heard the warnings and been advised at every turn lately. Now, it’s time to do it right, or risk losing out on reimbursements. Significant changes have been made to the new MDS...
Perceptions of nursing home care improving among residents, families, survey finds
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McKnight's Staff
Mar 28, 2012
Long-term care facilities in Missouri have been successful in rehabilitating their reputation as institutionalized environments, a new survey reveals.
How to do it… Wound care documentation
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McKnight's Staff
Nov 01, 2010
A key facet of successfully treating wounds is documenting them appropriately, particularly when it comes hard-to-heal areas. Experts advise here how to put yourself in position for good outcomes—and...
How to do it… Wound care
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McKnight's Staff
Nov 01, 2010
A key facet of successfully treating wounds is documenting them appropriately, particularly when it comes hard-to-heal areas.
How to do it… Wandering
By
McKnight's Staff
Aug 01, 2010
Experts offer guidance on how to convince family members, and residents themselves, that a facility’s resident safety systems are up to snuff.
60 Seconds with…
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McKnight's Staff
Apr 01, 2010
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, U.S. Health and Human Services
How to do it… Transportation
By
McKnight's Staff
Apr 01, 2010
Running an efficient, punctual transportation system within a long-term care facility is more difficult than it might first appear.