The calm before the antipsychotics storm
If you’re a Daily McKnight’s reader, it’s a good thing. Otherwise, you might have never known that a federal measure calling for closer monitoring of antipsychotic drug use in nursing...
Share with your employees and they will stay
The idea of consistent assignment and staff retention is central to a key new report on employment and elder care.
Thursdays with Walter
Walter the goldendoodle is like Norm on the old TV show “Cheers.” When he walks into Alden North Shore Nursing and Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, everyone knows, and often calls, his...
Sprinkler mandate fails to soak in
Ben Franklin warned us that death and taxes are life’s only certainties. But if you run a long-term care facility, feel free to add regulations to that list. And it looks like a doozy of a looming...
Commencement speech season heats up
Since I am sucker for celebrity commencement addresses, mid- to late-May is like my own, personal Christmas.
Grab life by the cup
While there are still some who believe my continued intake of coffee has ruined my chances to spend a blissful eternity in paradise, down here on Earth it’s apparently prolonging my existence.
Welcome back to the game, Senators
If you were beginning to worry that some of long-term care’s most prominent needlers had forgotten to show up for work for most of the last year, you weren’t alone. Good news: They’re...
Are you ready for ‘The Call’?
I remember the day I got “the call.” With years of experience in aging and long-term care, I found myself confused, overwhelmed and without easy access to all the right papers for my parents....
A nudge toward budgeting
There is many a manager who has been told “work on the budget” and left to sink or swim. If that’s different in your facility — that is, if each nurse manager is giving a course in...
A nudge toward budgeting
There is many a manager who has been told “work on the budget” and left to sink or swim. If that’s different in your facility — that is, if each nurse manager is giving a course in...
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