So here we are at the end of 2016. It’s been kind of a brutal year — globally, nationally, personally, even as a long-term care profession. Lots of loss, much uncertainty and fear, many reasons...
QAPI – Tips for the facility assessment
By
Andrew Kramer
Dec 26, 2016
The long-awaited QAPI regulations are finally in effect. Facilities now have until November 28, 2017 to create their QAPI plan and present it to state surveyors.
Finding balance and lighting the way
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Dec 23, 2016
Most of our patients over 80 have vestibular deficits, and that’s why they fall.
Naughty or Nice?
By
Renee Kinder
Dec 22, 2016
If left up to me this holiday season, I vote let them be NAUGHTY.
Tackling the not-so-clean touchscreen
By
Melanie Waddell
Dec 21, 2016
Healthcare professionals recognize that long-term care facilities should be a safe haven for healing, not a breeding ground for germs. But there is an unexpected, omnipresent culprit lurking and often...
Historic effort underway to build future generation of aging services leaders
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 21, 2016
Federal lawmakers often seem to look down on aging care professionals, but it might not be long before they’re looking up to them to learn how to get things done.
When technology fails us: ‘We talk’
By
Steven Littlehale
Dec 19, 2016
Driving my Grandma to one of her favorite restaurants to celebrate a significant birthday (she prefers that I don’t specify which) offered me an important lesson in communication.
Clinical care documentation that survives auditing
By
Jayne Warwick, RN, HBScN
Dec 16, 2016
Medicare claims set the stage for reimbursements – they’re the cast. Backstage, however, documentation comprises the crew, supporting the claim and determining whether or not the show –...
Why the Oklahoma sign law is far from ‘OK’
By
Elizabeth Newman
Dec 16, 2016
Perhaps it’s a sign of growing older when your response to a new government law is not, “That’s horrible!” but rather, “Who is going to pay for that?!” Such was the...
Journey of Heroes deserves showing, not telling
By
Gary Tetz
Dec 15, 2016
Every year about this time, I tell you eagerly and often weepily about “The Trip.” The one where 12 veterans, many of them from World War II and living in long-term care, get to hop on a plane...