DermaRite recently released its Interactive Wound Dressing Selection Guide, an interactive e-catalog app that allows users to input a series of wound characteristics that generates a list of appropriate...
Silicone foam helps wound care
Feb 12, 2014
MediPurpose has debuted a new MediPlus™ Silicone Comfort Foam dressings.
Coming soon: Needle-free injections
Jun 26, 2012
Residents could soon find that getting shots is a lot less painful. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently developed a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine...
Study to examine effects of hand sanitizer use on long-term care infection rates
Jul 15, 2009
The National Association Directors of Nursing Administration/Long Term Care (NADONA) is teaming up with a skin care company to explore the impact of hand sanitizers on infection rates in long-term care...
Ask the treatment expert … about staging an ulcer
By
Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Jun 01, 2014
What do you do when staff disagree about the stage of an ulcer?
Med-Miser introduces bed line
May 05, 2015
Med-Mizer has introduced the Comfort Bed series of beds.
White House vision has providers seeing red
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 01, 2022
Proposed staff minimums, increased enforcement activity and a ‘chilling’ stance on private investment raise concerns about keeping the doors open.
Presbyterian Senior Living community releases Tena Identifi results
Dec 22, 2015
Presbyterian Senior Living’s Westminster Village in Dover has cut its continence care product cost by more than 52% in three months by using TENA® Identifi, according to new results.
Incontinence pilot program brings PSL facilities success
By
Elizabeth Newman
Feb 04, 2016
With pressure on continence care mounting for long-term care providers, Presbyterian Senior Living said it recently was able to cut its continence care product cost by more than 52% in just three months.
Team coverage plans
By
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 05, 2015
When wound education specialist Rhonda Kistler travels to the 25 long-term care facilities in her region, she often works with wound care nurses on effective prevention strategies and improved interventions.