Sherrie Dornberger

I am a new IP Nurse and trying hard to provide the best quality of care with my team during these stressful time. I hear there is a new precaution other than contact, and the few we are accustomed to using....

How can we get our staff to realize we know they care deeply for their residents? Also, how can we show more support, and get ideas from them for improving resident care?

How do you keep a Foley bag from touching the floor when a resident is in a low bed?

Staff members are showing up to work, but are wiped out so they are not really completing all of their duties with the finesse they once did. We try to hire but there are no applicants. Suggestions?

I am a fairly new nurse, and in school we were taught to call openings in the residents’ skin “pressure ulcers” and stage them accordingly. But other nurses are correcting me. They say there are...

I’m a DON in a nursing facility that experienced a lot of COVID-19 cases and deaths due to the virus, both in the facility and at the hospital. We have seen families react so differently when they experience...

I’m new to long-term care. Can you help me see what makes one therapy company better than another?

I am a new DON. Do you know any way I could recognize some staff who go above and beyond for our residents? We do recognizer them in the building, but I want everyone to know how long-term care has wonderful...

I am a new director of nursing. When I was hired, I was told that I was not responsible for developing the supply budget. But as of this week, there is a new administrator who now tells me the supply budget...

Do you know of anything to assist with protecting nursing staff from violent residents, visitors or fellow staff members?