Ask the Nursing Expert about … switching facilities
Should I stay or should I go after finally achieving success?
Print Issue: August 01, 2017
Profile: Linda Krueger
When Linda Krueger starts to tear up, it’s not when talking about how proud she is of her son or her military service, or the death of her father. It’s when she talks about how much she loves her residents.
It’s official: Good help is difficult to find
High turnover rates and small selection pools make it more difficult to hire entry-level healthcare employees, according to a task force report.
Ask the Payment Expert about … community structure
I’m concerned with the new megarule expenses and that maybe I need to rethink my need for skilled nursing beds. What are your thoughts?
Institutional procedures trail online education, study finds
As online nursing education increases in popularity, researchers are finding institutional procedures may not be keeping up.
PPS comments are sought
Federal regulators have agreed to gather more comments from providers and others on the revision of new skilled nursing prospective payment system case-mix methodology.
Ask the Legal Expert about … background checks
We do background checks on new employees. But now there’s word we’ll be getting sued because a relatively new nurse aide allegedly improperly touched certain residents. How can we avoid a potentially nightmarish sexual assault scenario we knew nothing about, nor could have foreseen?
CMS wants outpatient knee replacements to be covered
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has asked for coverage of knee replacement surgeries in outpatient facilities as part of a proposal concerning hospital outpatient prospective payments.
No new OT salary target with suit pending
Federal officials’ fight to enact a rule that would have made 4.2 million more workers eligible for overtime compensation won’t be carried on by the Trump administration, according to court documents filed in late June.
Ask the Treatment Expert about … pressure injury protocol
Is it best practice, for consistency, to have only the wound nurse measure, stage and assess pressure injuries?
