Overnight incontinence care deserves special planning and strategies; providers get personal with individual options and high-tech solutions
How to do it… Positioning techniques
Jul 04, 2016
In the wake of recent updates to the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel’s wound staging guidelines, providers are re-focusing on prevention. Wound care toolboxes include methods and technology...
Prolonging other lives
By
Amy Novotney
Jul 04, 2016
How, where and when furniture is used is directly related to the ability to extend its durability and life, especially in high-traffic areas like dining rooms or lobbies
Reader Poll: “What would you like to accomplish in the next decade?”
Jul 04, 2016
“In the next decade it does not appear that a cure for Alzheimer’s disease will be found.”
60 Seconds with… Steve Fromm
Jul 04, 2016
What was your election platform? With 2016-2017 ACHCA
Board Chairman, Steve Fromm.
Profile: Jay Zimmer
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 04, 2016
Ask The Reutlinger Community for Jewish Living CEO Jay Zimmer about his hobbies, and he’ll mention he’s been a long-time runner who also enjoys hiking and cycling.
Ask the Care Expert about … different types of surveys
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Jul 04, 2016
It seems like we are always in a “survey window,” waiting for the inspectors to arrive.
Are you a people-focused manager?
By
Nancy Anderson, RN, MA
Jul 01, 2016
Continuing our employee engagement series, this month we focus on the second attribute of an engaging culture: people-focused managers.
Patient identifier systems need to move beyond the name game
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 01, 2016
When I became engaged to my wonderful husband, I spent a fair amount of time debating what to do with my last name. There were philosophical discussions around feminism, identity and what it means to be...
The key business principle always applies, even with death
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 30, 2016
No matter how you slice whatever you do for a living, you are employed to provide one thing: good customer service. Knowing what your “customer” wants and needs, and then getting it to him...