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Nurse.com
JULY 11, 2022
A long-term care nurse shared that her facility was accused of negligence in failing to use bed rails properly to prevent residents from falling out of bed. . The RN did the assessment and documented her results. The administrator had another RN change the documentation done initially by the RN in question.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 21, 2024
GIP is used for acute symptom management that cannot be addressed in the home or other setting, according to Hold-Weiss. Operators may not provide that level of care in a home, hospice residential facility, assisted living or a long term care nursing home, she said.
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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
MARCH 19, 2023
This was in the 80s, before Long-Term Care (LTC) Standards were anywhere near what they are now. It was common then, and I’m afraid still today, to hear seniors swear they would never “go into a nursing home, because that’s where people go to die.” Topping the list of answers to the question, “How did we get here?”
Hospice News
AUGUST 17, 2022
Monitoring claims submissions for their patients across all care settings is vital for hospices, as is educating referral partners and pharmacies about appropriate service billing for hospice patients, said Lund Person. Services and items provided to patients in nursing homes are a particular area of risk for hospices, she said.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Oftentimes it’s either combination of home visits and telephonic services. Sometimes they might be doing consultations either inpatient or in the nursing home or in assisted living. Oftentimes, we say the hospital, but the hospital also manages the home care and the long term care.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
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. Biggest differences, not licensed as a nursing home, don’t have to have nurses.
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