CMS adds enhanced barrier precautions to infection control guidance
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
Nursing homes must begin to use enhanced barrier precautions to prevent broader transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms and to help protect patients with chronic wounds and indwelling devices, the...
Moon landings and the MDS. What gives?
By
Joel VanEaton
Mar 19, 2024
You may be aware that on Feb. 22, Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed a spacecraft on the moon, making history as the first commercial craft to reach the lunar surface and the first U.S. spacecraft...
Lynn Hood to receive 2024 McKnight’s Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award
By
James M. Berklan
Mar 12, 2024
Lynn Hood, a long-term care executive well-known for answering the call to act under emergency conditions and being a champion of employees, has been chosen as this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award...
The witch hunt is on, good nursing homes be damned
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 07, 2024
The threat, to both “bad actors” and well-meaning providers who get caught up in the rush to accuse, is only going to grow if the government has its way.
Ask the wound care expert … about assessing dark skin
By
Fatima Naqvi, MD
Mar 05, 2024
Should the skin assessment for dark skin tones be different from light skin tones?
Changes to end-of-life wound classification in a recent Minimum Data Set update should be a positive for long-term care, but regulatory and legal ambiguity still surrounded the new coding procedures at...
The changes to end-of-life skin wound classification in the most recent Minimum Data Set update are ultimately a positive for long-term care, but regulatory ambiguity and potential legal concerns still...
Clinical briefs for Tuesday, Feb. 6
By
Kristen Fischer
Feb 06, 2024
ChatCPT has potential to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease … C. diff antibiotic lowered recurrence … Combo therapy reduces blood pressure in ibrutinib patients … FDA eyes improving accuracy of pulse...
Ask the wound care expert … about antibiotics
By
Fatima Naqvi, MD
Feb 01, 2024
Should we always use topical antibiotics in wounds?
Arkansas Nurse Honor Guard spotlights a pair of nursing home residents in historic observance
By
Foster Stubbs
Jan 30, 2024
Eva Young and Jan Stackhouse might be long-term care residents today but as former nurses, they were once providing the care themselves. Young began her nursing career in 1949 while Stackhouse’s began...