Laundry and housekeeping personnel are on the front lines when it comes to safeguarding long-term care residents’ health, cleanliness and quality of life.
Nomophobia threat
By
Gary Tetz
Aug 01, 2013
They say confession is good for the soul, so here goes. I’m having an affair — with my smartphone. What started with a few innocent conversations and some harmless texting quickly became an obsession,...
This new care model has stitch-in-time approach
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 01, 2013
Every enterprise needs worker bees. Clearly, if the work is going to get done, those on the frontline — and elsewhere — must soldier on. But if an enterprise — be it a company, industry or other...
Getting older, but better
By
John O'Connor
Aug 01, 2013
A friend who has spent a lifetime studying Alzheimer’s disease once offered this double-edged advice: If you can make it all the way to age 90, there’s a good chance you’ll avoid the...
Household’s the word
By
William C. Fisher
Aug 01, 2013
The “household” concept is helping many senior living communities successfully compete in today’s markets. This case study, provided by David Slack, principal at the Aging Research Institute,...
Night shift work is tied to breast cancer
By
Elizabeth Newman
Aug 01, 2013
A new study identifies a link between night shift work and risk of breast cancer, according to Canadian researchers. In an investigation of 1,100 women with breast cancer and more than 1,100 without it,...
Ask the payment expert … about RAC nursing home audits
By
Patricia Boyer
Aug 01, 2013
We keep hearing about RACs in skilled nursing homes but we haven’t seen any in our state, so why should we worry about them?
Verbal abuse frequently used against newly licensed RNs
By
Ashley Carman
Aug 01, 2013
Almost half of newly licensed registered nurses were likely to have been verbally abused at work by their colleagues within the past three months, according to a new study.
Ask the treatment expert … about pressure ulcer documentation
By
Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Aug 01, 2013
How much do we have to document risk and implemented interventions to prevent pressure ulcer development?