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Ensuring Bath Safety in Nursing and Assisted Living Facilities

AT Home Care & Hospice

By: Matt Kovalchick, PT Introduction: Bath safety is a critical issue in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) and Assisted Living Facilities (ALF), where residents often face mobility or balance challenges. These limitations can unfortunately lead to falls and other incidents during what should be a private and dignified experience.

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Ensuring Bath Safety in Nursing and Assisted Living Facilities

Adobe Hospice & Home Health

By: Matt Kovalchick, PT Introduction: Bath safety is a critical issue in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) and Assisted Living Facilities (ALF), where residents often face mobility or balance challenges. These limitations can unfortunately lead to falls and other incidents during what should be a private and dignified experience.

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From the Trenches: Nurse Practitioner Obiora on Where Hospice Succeeds, What Needs to Change

Hospice News

Today she is a hospice- and palliative care-certified nurse practitioner at MJHS Health System in Brooklyn. As her devotion to the field grew, she sought training to become a licensed practical nurse (LPN) before advancing in time to her nurse practitioner role. And unfortunately, those staff are no longer available.

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The Well-Fed Nursing Career

Minority Nurse

Just like your body, your nursing career needs good nutrition. Not Rocket Science Feeding your nursing career an excellent nutritious diet may not be rocket science, but it doesn’t always come naturally. Once you’re working as a nurse, you transition from student to novice, then from novice to more experienced nurse.

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A perspective on funding, doing and publishing qualitative research

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Our research has focused mainly on the experiences of nurses and family carers involved in the care of people living with dementia. Securing funding The Chief Nursing Officer for Englands strategic plan (1) for research highlights the value of nurse led research and the need for a clear research career pathway. References 1.

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Hospice & Palliative Care of Iredell County Launches Caregiver Education Partnership

Hospice News

The community-based provider offers care in the home, at hospitals and in assisted living or skilled nursing facilities in the region. Topics include fall prevention, pain and symptom management, bathing, incontinence, patient safety and decreasing anxiety, as well as wellness care for caregivers, among others.

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Bartlett Regional Hospital Gets Green Light to Take Over Hospice Services, Executives Step Down

Hospice News

The hospital sought hospice licensure in the certificate of need state after Hospice and Home Care of Juneau (HHCJ) halted services last October, citing high staffing costs and insufficient nursing resources. We still just have one nurse trained right now,” Stout said during a board meeting. They have to be on-call 24/7.

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