Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

Nurses are everywhere. The ubiquitous nurse is present in the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying. Nurses don't shy away from responsibility — they embrace it. Nurses run towards the metaphorical fire. Yes, nursing and healthcare have their incessant and seemingly intractable problems.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. You’ve all read Louise Aronson’s book. Why did you go into it?

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2023

The book won awards for ‘AJA Best Publication in the Field of Ageing’! Perhaps if Sally hadn’t died and I hadn’t retired we would be doing another edition… Central to the book and care of older people is focusing on THE PERSON, not the disease or task. Many of the staff were never taught comprehensive assessment skills.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So the first order on all POLST forms is around code status.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

AUGUST 2, 2020

In other bullying scenarios, r esidents may silently tolerate repeated and sometimes deliberate incidents of being served cold food, late food, no food, and even damaged food, such as this badly butchered birthday cake that was rudely presented to a resident on her birthday by a staff member.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

or too much ancient history, but you know, like, like a lot of nurses, when I became an RN, I was told you gotta work in acute care. You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And if we don’t do it now, we’re gonna be talking about this 20 years from now, and all of us are going, we’ll be sitting in our, you know, skilled nursing home, talking to each other about it. Like, Boy, wish I was home. But but yeah, I think that now is the time that we can actually affect this change.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

And if we don’t do it now, we’re gonna be talking about this 20 years from now, and all of us are going, we’ll be sitting in our, you know, skilled nursing home, talking to each other about it. Like, Boy, wish I was home. But but yeah, I think that now is the time that we can actually affect this change.

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Home care Nursing Caregiver Healthcare 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

AlexSmithMD (still on Twitter at present). RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. Eric: And how is assisted living community different than a nursing home? One is they’re not licensed as a nursing home, and they’re not federally regulated. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Assisted living Geriatrics Long-term care 2005 195

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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Geriatrics Ventilator Events Palliative care 191

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 4, 2022

Additionally, we received press releases related to CMS Acts to Improve the Safety and Quality of Care of the Nation’s Nursing Homes and CMS Seeks Public Feedback to Improve Medicare Advantage. Back to the books for all of us during this back-to-school season. Medicare: In 2021, Medicare covered 63.8 million people: 55.8

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