Daily Nurse

APRIL 24, 2023

Many older Americans receive care from aging services facilities across the United States. There are currently about 14 million people receiving some form of long-term care services. However, aging service facilities need more staffing to meet regulatory and quality of care standards.

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Nurse.com

JULY 29, 2022

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are revolutionizing healthcare delivery in America. territories now give patients full and direct access to the high-quality care NPs deliver. Each year, 355,000 licensed NPs see patients for primary, acute, specialty, and long-term care across every healthcare setting.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 23, 2022

Social determinants of health, understanding what they are, their impact on patient care, and their influence on effective transitions across care settings are all essential for rehab providers. Renee Kinder. Specifically stated, communication disabilities add an additional barrier that magnifies medical needs.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 2, 2023

Crystal Beckford is an accomplished healthcare executive with extensive experience in health systems in Maryland and Florida. She has a proven track record in hospital, health plan, long-term care, and health insurance leadership. How long have you worked in the nursing field? Talk about your role in nursing.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Home healthcare nursing is a collaborative team approach to patient care. From private duty for long-term care of adults and children with neurodegenerative and motor disorders to rehabilitative and therapeutic nursing for those recovering from an injury or illness, we take a holistic approach to treatment.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. The series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing.

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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. Programmers.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We need to understand most nurses in acute care and long-term care settings now are novice nurses or nurses who have only been in the profession for a few years. They’re unhappy and need to see healthcare organizations addressing the pitfalls that we’re seeing with staffing. So that’s part of it.

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Diversity Nursing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Nurse Educators play a crucial role in shaping the future of Nursing by preparing the next generation of Nurses to meet evolving healthcare needs. Their responsibilities extend beyond traditional patient care to education, mentoring, and influencing the development of Nursing professionals.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

But nonetheless, the methadone clinic system is entirely separate from the rest of the healthcare system. I’ve had a lot of palliative care colleagues say to me like, “I don’t want to take them out of their methadone clinic because they’re getting so much support from their clinic.” Katie: Sure.

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Caregiver Support Services

MAY 7, 2024

Cutting-edge technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, offering innovative solutions to improve patient care and streamline healthcare operations. Consider the following key features to look for in new medical equipment to ensure you create a patient-centric, efficient, and safe environment.

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Nurse.com

JULY 29, 2022

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are revolutionizing healthcare delivery in America. territories now give patients full and direct access to the high-quality care NPs deliver. Each year, 355,000 licensed NPs see patients for primary, acute, specialty, and long-term care across every healthcare setting.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 16, 2022

Nursing assistants are essential members of any healthcare team and this week’s National Nursing Assistants Week is a time to honor the work they do. Because they spend quite a lot of time with patients, they are able to notice changes they can quickly report to the care team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Welcome, Karl.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

AUGUST 29, 2024

This isn’t just about avoiding claim denials; it’s about validating the critical role that skilled therapy services play in patient care. The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 14, 2022

We know that ensuring that patients and families are engaged as partners is an effective way to measure the quality of patient care. Remember that SNF QRP furthers CMS’s mission to improve the quality of healthcare for beneficiaries through measurement, transparency and public reporting of data. Meaningful Measures 2.0

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

JUNE 6, 2024

Raising children, like providing patient care, requires a plan. The older our children become, like when patients show progress, the more freedom they should be allowed. The guide book for plan of care development for patients is clearly outlined in Medicare Benefit Policy Manual Chapter 15 Section 220.1.2,

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that? I think Bob also noted documenting it. Rebecca: Agreed.

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 5, 2023

The series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing. I started healthcare in ambulatory care as MA. I entered a nursing role in critical care for 14 years. I then returned to ambulatory care with a focus on the PCMH model.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

Healthcare workers believed that they had a good understanding of hospital infection prevention policies.” The renewed focus on how infection control in nursing is presented to healthcare professionals is among the major lessons learned since 2020. Perhaps one of the most impacted was nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Bill, your magic wand, what are you going to use it on? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 18, 2022

Nursing represents the largest healthcare profession in the U.S., A registered nurse is, “An individual who has graduated from a state-approved school of nursing, passed the NCLEX-RN examination, and is licensed by a state board of nursing to provide patient care,” according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. After consecutive years of consistently meeting high Press Ganey (patient.

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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 ? Hospitals love to showcase the fact that they’ve earned their Magnet designation, and apparently for very good reasons. Why Magnet?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The peeling process is much like the layers of patient complexity rehab professionals must strip away daily, essential for providing the highest level of quality patient care and supporting a health literate culture. Let’s begin with a definition of health literacy. In 2010, approximately 21.4

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Traditions Health

APRIL 14, 2024

Accreditation surveys are conducted at least once every 36 months by a team of highly trained healthcare professionals, to ensure compliance with the highest standards. It’s a voluntary commitment that we’ve made to consistently provide the highest quality of care.

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

These tasks include creating patient care plans, administering medications, and performing diagnostic tests. They play a key role in coordinating patient care and may specialize in areas like geriatrics or palliative care. They can prescribe medications, diagnose diseases, and provide treatment plans.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 18, 2022

Nurses provide emotional, physical, and psychological care to patients every day. This is especially true in healthcare settings like home health and hospice when care is being provided in the patient’s home. However, you should remember that you are caring for them in a professional capacity.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

Michelle has dedicated her career to improving the value of home care across the care continuum. With over 25 years of experience in the post-acute care space, she’s worked with many top regional healthcare and home care facilities in Texas, as well as some of the best known agencies nationwide.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

And I think that we’re at this kind of crossroads right now in dysphagia, and dysphagia management where our patients are suffering. Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. We revisit it, and make things better for our patients. Eric: Lovely.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 3, 2022

We also know that our skilled care, its impacts and the patients’ ability to maintain functional abilities extends well beyond the time during which direct care provision is provided. With patient care and rehab, like raising children, it takes a village. Third, who is responsible for care?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MARCH 30, 2023

Yesterday, wasting no time, United Healthcare released their response to this proposal and would expect others to follow suit. I also appreciate that most care providers don’t have time to read every fine line of proposed and final rules, so here is my attempt at an overview of the key points. First, what is CMS’s goal here?

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In healthcare, myths, misconceptions and even invented rules can seep into decision-making. Chapter 8 outlines coverage for skilled nursing facility care, including therapy services for Medicare Part A beneficiaries, while Chapter 15 provides guidance on medical and other health services, including rules for the long-term care population.

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