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Back in My Day: Wild Nursing Practices That Actually Happened in Australia

The Nurse Break

Some say the nurses took a nip too. Article coming soon here about ‘Surviving the era of the matron’ Didnt wear your petticoat? Nurses lined up in the corridor holding trays, food was dished from a hot box, and lockers and beds were scrubbed, disinfected (carbolised), and reset like clockwork. Medicinal, of course.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog. I got a question then, because I see one in 12 nursing home patients with dementia are placed on thickened liquids.

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Parting thoughts, and a pricey problem

The World According to Dr. El

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from sitting by the bedsides of elders in the nursing home, it’s that life goes faster than we think it will, and I have other mountains to climb. It’s the undertaking I’d most regret leaving undone if I were talking to my psychologist in my nursing home room at age 85. A stretch, I know.)

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Brushing away the risk: The crucial role of daily toothbrushing in preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

A phenomenon that skilled nursing teams have long appreciated was recently highlighted in a recent article published in JAMA Internal Medicine , researchers Ehrenzeller and Klompas shed light on a critical yet often overlooked aspect of healthcare — oral hygiene and daily toothbrushing.

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Maintaining a Relationship with your Loved One in a Facility during COVID-19.

Hospice 101

But during this time, can we truly maintain healthy relationships with loved ones outside of the home? Many of us reading this article have a loved one in a facility, whether it is at an Assisted Living Facility, Memory Care Facility, Group Home, Senior Apartments, Skilled Nursing Home, Hospital, or other CBRF.

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Antipsychotic medication reduction and the severely mentally ill population

The World According to Dr. El

creates a SNF wave ”), these residents generally arrive at nursing homes following a health crisis but are frequently difficult to discharge even after they’re medically stable, due to the need to manage concomitant medical and mental health problems. See the above-mentioned article for some systems solutions. The opportunities.

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Resume FAQs for Nursing Students and New Nurses

Nurse.com

For example, if you organized a blood drive at your school or read to residents of a nursing home, expand on the details of these occasions. According to Yale University’s School of Nursing, resumes should be one to two pages in length. The post Resume FAQs for Nursing Students and New Nurses appeared first on Nurse.com Blog.

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