What are some of the challenges involving seniors and outpatient observation stays in hospitals?… with Center for Medicare Advocacy’s Executive Director, Judith A. Stein, JD
Ask the Nursing Expert about … the highlights of the MSDS system
Aug 06, 2016
What are the highlights of this new rule?
Providers competing on nursing shortage
By
Phil Brahm
Aug 06, 2016
With increased nursing demand on the horizon in the U.S., long-term care providers are now offering a wide variety of incentives to bring more nurses to their facilities.
Second chance helps nurses overcome language mandate
By
Phil Brahm
Aug 06, 2016
Amid the growing pressure of nursing staff shortages, an overseas healthcare regulator is relaxing its rules for language testing.
Ask the Treatment Expert about … how pressure injury staging descriptions have changed
Aug 06, 2016
In addition to the change in terminology from pressure ulcer to injury, NPUAP’s April 13, 2016, press release announced refined descriptions of pressure injury (ulcer) stages.
Aging sweat glands delay wound healing
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 06, 2016
Sweat glands play an important roll in how skin heals from injury, but they don’t work as well in seniors, say University of Michigan researchers.
Researchers ‘reboot’ tissue to accelerate wound healing
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 06, 2016
Tufts University researchers have for the first time reprogrammed skin cells from diabetic foot ulcers to make them more like stem cells.
Ask the Care Expert about … prevalence of infections in LTPAC
Aug 06, 2016
It seems like we are now making a bigger deal out of infections in long-term post-acute care settings than before.
Many with stroke risk get wrong drugs
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Aug 06, 2016
More than one-third of people at risk for stroke are given the wrong medications, according to a recent study.
End-of-life talks better for dementia, cancer patients
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Aug 06, 2016
Patients with dementia receive higher-quality end-of-life care than patients with other serious ailments, according to a recent study. Researchers with Boston’s VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham...