Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Regular follow-ups with medical professionals and documenting changes in the patients condition ensure youre meeting their evolving needs effectively. Comfort Physical and emotional comfort remain priorities in palliative care. Control Palliative care helps loved ones retain a sense of control over their lives.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 14, 2024

If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. Today, I would like for us all to consider not merely the importance of documenting daily skilled care but also the reason for referral and the need for initiating services in the first place. How many times have we all heard those words?

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Daily Nurse

MAY 1, 2025

The nursing profession demands resilience, compassion, and long hours. For many nurses, the emotional and physical toll of the job is compounded by administrative stresslate paychecks, confusing benefits portals, or disorganized shift scheduling. These burdens might seem minor in isolation, but they add up fast. Clocking in.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

According to “The 2022 Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report: 5th Edition,” claims again nurse practitioners (NPs) are rising. To find out what this means and what NPs can do about it, Daily Nurse interviewed Georgia Reiner, MS, CPHRM, Risk Analyst, Nurses Service Organization (NSO).

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 29, 2024

Just as vocabulary and grammar are foundational for students, precise language and documentation are crucial for us in demonstrating the skilled level of service we provide. Medicare, the primary payer for many skilled nursing facility residents, provides clear guidelines on what constitutes skilled therapy services.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Research shows] that operationalizing person-centered care in a long-term care facility resulted in less staff burnout, lower turnover, and a greater job satisfaction,” she says. Care planning needs to move [more] to the bedside, and that can be a cultural change,” she says. The other disciplines do as well.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Technology continues to advance in health care, and this advancement means an ongoing demand for nurse informaticists. Through healthcare technology, nurse informaticists enhance patient outcomes, reduce clinical errors, and provide efficient results in clinical procedures for patients and nursing staff.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The October 2019 industry shift to the Patient Driven Payment Model allowed all rehabilitation professionals the opportunity to document specific clinical characteristics about the patients we serve and directly tie those areas to reimbursement. Renee Kinder. Quite the shift, right? Knowledge is key here. Let’s begin with some basics on PDPM.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 27, 2023

PEPPER reports, on the other hand, shouldn’t be viewed as an additional nuisance and should provide useful data for the entire interdisciplinary team to review to assess trending and develop strategies for supplemental review of documentation. What Is PEPPER?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OCTOBER 24, 2024

During a recent visit to a skilled nursing facility, a nurse made an insightful comment that stuck with me: “You can’t unscramble eggs.” RCA may sound complex, but it can easily be incorporated into the processes that skilled nursing facilities already use. Consider the following options. Have a column idea?

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Anne Dabrow Woods has incredible insight into nursing as a practicing critical care nurse practitioner and nursing educator with over 39 years of experience and counting. How long have you been in nursing, and what are some of your roles during that time? I know what nurses need in practice.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S. data shows 81 percent of nursing home residents are fully vaccinated) but staff may not be. With the right tools and support, many clients can themselves be responsible for some documentation.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.” 19 CSR 30-82.050(2)(A)-(F).

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Alarm bells are now sounding in long-term care facilities and nursing homes, where clients may be vaccinated ( U.S. data shows 81 percent of nursing home residents are fully vaccinated) but staff may not be. The mood in the nation’s home health community is a worry that we could be in for another rough time.

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Caregiver Support Services

MARCH 27, 2025

Paperless Documentation Part of this approach also involves the development of paperless documentation. Care agencies are moving beyond conventional approaches to ensure that they operate more efficiently. For example, many companies are now using e-timesheets and EHRs.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 25, 2018

Currently, we primarily use it for scheduling, documentation, planning, and billing. In the field, our nursing staff have been able to track their visits and easily monitor client health statuses, as well as ensuring their needs have been addressed each day. It’s very user-friendly.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 24, 2023

I started my career in the non-profit sector, then education, and back to non-profits, but I was never fulfilled until I got the calling to become a nurse. That’s when I witnessed what it meant to be a nurse — the compassion, comfort, and care. Braving the rough times Early on, I was taught, “Nurses eat their young.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: Could we touch on nursing homes too?

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 8, 2025

Use a binder or digital folder to store medical documents, doctors notes, emergency contacts, and travel confirmations. Preparing a written summary of medical and behavioral needs will help during emergencies. Use Tools and Resources To Stay Organized Staying organized makes travel smoother for the entire family.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 16, 2023

Therefore, evaluation, re-evaluation and assessment documented in the Progress Report should describe objective measurements which, when compared, show improvements in function, decrease in severity or rationalization for an optimistic outlook to justify continued treatment. Answer: No. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 26, 2022

It’s been a little over a month since the Q4FY21 release of the Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Payments to skilled nursing facilities have been identified as vulnerable to abuse. Renee Kinder. Have you downloaded your reports yet? Reviewed with your team? Why, you ask?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 11, 2023

The May 4, 2023, notice of Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) 5-Claim Probe and Educate Review , of course! Since the initiation of PDPM in October of 2019, providers have been long awaiting medical review to assess the accuracy of interdisciplinary team documentation. We knew it was coming! What am I speaking of? The time is now.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 13, 2023

The time is now for us all understand the upcoming shifts to the skilled nursing facility quality reporting program (SNF QRP). To begin, what is the skilled nursing facility quality reporting program? The time now engage more fully as an IDT in documentation and coding. What is proposed to be removed?

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 24, 2024

Cost : Senior housing can be expensive, and costs vary widely depending on the type of community and the level of care provided. Evaluate the senior’s financial situation and explore potential funding sources, such as long-term care insurance, savings, and government programs.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Given the significant emphasis placed on Magnet designation in the healthcare industry worldwide, should nurses always prioritize working at Magnet-designated facilities to advance their careers ? They will lead the reformation of health care; the discipline of nursing; and care of the patient, family, and community.

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Nurse.com

MARCH 14, 2023

Credibility is also essential during board of nursing (BON) proceedings. In the following case, a nurse’s veracity was the focus of a state supreme court decision and decisions in three prior proceedings. The patient asked why the RN was being so rough and complained to nursing home administrators.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Hospice News: Today we will talk about threads of clinical documentation and satisfaction and also revenue protection. Here’s an area that you missed from a documentation perspective where you could get dinged by CMS for not documenting it, either this element or this way.” One example is a CTI. They love doing it.

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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.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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. It’s what is going on with the patient that day that requires that patient to be on GIP care.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. But like, if you look at a surrogate document, it walks you through step by step, the hierarchy of decision makers, but also, like, how that surrogate should be making decisions. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from? Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor.

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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?”

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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. Facilities.

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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. Welcome, Karl.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications. Annals of IM.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

For instance, skilled nursing facilities, hospitals or health systems could require hospice clinicians to be vaccinated before they enter a facility, he said. Some settings may have tighter policies than others, such as skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes, according to Gurian. It also can be expensive.

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