National summit leads to 700 dementia recommendations
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Kimberly Marselas
May 17, 2018
Participants in a national research summit have recommended nearly 700 new strategies for understanding dementia, working toward a cure and supporting people who have it.
Cuts threaten national program that transitions seniors out of nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 09, 2018
Money Follows the Person is meant to allow patients access to care in home- and community-based settings, and viewed as helping provide quality care at a lower price.
Bill would require more emergency prep in nursing homes
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 03, 2018
A new bill seeks to bolster emergency preparedness at the nation’s nursing homes, even as the Trump administration backs away from some non-compliance penalties.
Respiratory therapy, other coded services creating software snags under new MDS
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 17, 2023
More than two weeks into dealing with a large-scale update to the Minimum Data Set, providers continue to grapple with a range of coding concerns, including an inability of some software systems to capture...
Hermes Awards honor McKnight’s for creative communication
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Kimberly Marselas
Jun 14, 2021
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News captured three top honors in the 2021 Hermes Creative Awards, which honor creativity in traditional and digital mediums. Mcknights.com was named a Gold Award winner for...
Staffing startup secures funding for expansion
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 26, 2020
Gento, formerly Nursing Without Walls, a startup providing staffing and care delivery management to skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies, has secured $5 million in Series A funding. The...
New approach yields no new ulcers after 1,181 bed days
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Kimberly Marselas
May 01, 2019
A strategy combining multiple wound prevention practices with behavior modification techniques helped prevent new pressure ulcers during a single-site study in England.
Study: RNs better trained to identify high-risk Rx errors
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 08, 2018
Registered nurses may be more likely than licensed practical nurses to identify high-risk medication errors in nursing homes, new research suggests.
Nursing home nurses seek hospital transfers guidance
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Kimberly Marselas
Feb 04, 2016
A comprehensive review of nursing homes nurses’ perceptions about emergency room transfers shows nurses want more resources and more guidance to determine who goes and who stays.
More than 1 in 3 nurses leave first job by third year: study
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 01, 2014
Nearly 18% of new nurses leave their first job within a year, according to a study in Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice.