Cook who quit over face mask gets jobless benefits revoked
Feb 01, 2022
A judge has ruled that an Iowa nursing home worker who resigned her job after refusing to wear a face mask at work to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is not entitled to receive unemployment compensation...
AG wants leader criminal charges back in play
Feb 01, 2022
The Massachusetts Attorney General has appealed a state judge’s decision to drop criminal charges against two former top officials of a Massachusetts veterans home where 76 residents died during a major...
Daytime meals prove better for nighttime workers’ health
By
Amy Novotney
Feb 01, 2022
Eating at nighttime — as many shift nurses do — can increase glucose levels, while eating only during daytime hours may have a preventative effect, according to a trial backed by the National Institutes...
Dissatisfaction driving nurses from field
By
Amy Novotney
Feb 01, 2022
Fully two-thirds of nurses were considering leaving the profession in late 2021, according to a recent national survey.
Ask the Nursing Expert
By
Amy Stewart
Feb 01, 2022
What should a director of nursing look for to recognize drug diversion in a timely way?
The Big Picture | LTC will never be the same
Feb 01, 2022
We were thrilled on the day our office tapped into the internet.
McKnight’s 2022 Outlook Survey: Providers pessimistic about staffing, census, new regs
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 01, 2022
More than three-fourths (78%) of nursing home operators and top managers don’t expect the workforce to return to pre-pandemic levels for at least another year — if ever.
CMS airing out staffing data
By
James M. Berklan
Feb 01, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early January it would start posting nursing home turnover rates for nurses and administrators, as well as weekend staffing levels, by the end...
An Alzheimer’s cause found?
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 01, 2022
Researchers might have discovered why some people with protein plaques and tangles in their brains do not develop Alzheimer’s disease.
Nursing home staff still gone
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 01, 2022
Nursing home employment remained down 13.2% some 15 months into the pandemic, researchers reported in Health Affairs in January.