Long-term care Nursing home Patient care 
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 was also accused of not updating patient care plans, but she stated she had, in fact, done this and had taken screen shots of her updates.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The inpatient cap limits the number of days of inpatient care for which Medicare will pay to 20% of a hospice’s total Medicare patient care days, according to OIG. GIP is used for acute symptom management that cannot be addressed in the home or other setting, according to Hold-Weiss.
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GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
There have been nursing homes that have been sued for patient chokes on some food is DNR DNI, and nobody goes to help the patient perform a simple Heimlich because they’re DNR DN I. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes. This shouldn’t have happened. We can make this better.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Katie: Well, I think you’re assuming that they’re accepting them to nursing homes, which is usually the first stop sign. Katie: Yep.
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. She is the owner of aneesahcoates.com and is passionate about helping nurses, current and aspiring, learn more about the profession.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
And typically, in the education around facilitating those conversations, we’re focused on eliciting goals and what are that individual’s goals of care and how does that direct the plan right now, knowing that some of those decisions, even if you make a choice now aren’t actually going to come into play for days, weeks, months.
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