Pain Assessments

Residents with uncontrolled pain are more likely to exhibit depression and behavioral symptoms including signs of psychosis, rejection of care and physical and verbal aggression, investigators say.

Nursing home care providers were able to more smoothly adopt evidence-based pain management guidelines when they had the support of specially trained registered nurses, a study in Sweden has found.

Providers will have to report certain hospice quality measures to the federal government starting July 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services formally announced in a recent Federal Register notice.

I am treating a patient with two Stage IV pressure ulcers and he is complaining of extreme pain. What do you recommend?

A New York nursing home that reduced falls by 53% in a year credits program planning, new safeguards and revised resident assessments.