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Researchers brought us to us directly this week: The longer that nursing home staff members keep COVID-19 vaccination numbers low, the more people they’re going to see unnecessarily die because of it.

In a world where technology is universal, video surveillance has a profound impact on the operations of our healthcare systems.  Many healthcare institutions (like long-term care facilities) rely on the...

Six months after the COVID-19 vaccines first became available, just 55% of the CNAs, nurses and therapists who work at our 50-bed skilled nursing facility have chosen to get vaccinated. It’s a challenge,...

I encourage all nurses to reflect on why you became a nurse.

Today is International Women’s Day, a time to celebrate the achievements made and progress yet to come by women across the globe. Recently, I was named a Rising Star in the 2021 McKnight’s Women of...

Short-term stay or respite care offers a great solution for seniors who are recovering from a hospital visit, surgery or other medical issue. While short-term rehabilitation is effective in addressing...

Recent headlines have inundated us with news about the alarmingly rapid spread of a new and deadly strain of C. auris — a drug-resistant fungus, still with no discernible origin, that has seen 309 cases...

Unless people ask for advice, we shouldn’t offer it. This is hard. Our instinct is to want to give advice and to be helpful.

At first glance the headline strained the bonds of credulity. But there it was, earlier this year, above a story about an 86-year-old and a 79-year-old brawling over a chair before a bingo game in the...

If we continue to perpetuate this antiquated view of volunteers, programs and facilities will never flourish.