Assessments

More than one-quarter of nurse assessment coordinators have limited on-the-job experience, potentially leaving providers at risk for survey deficiencies and leading to poorer health outcomes for facility...

Providing early care for pressure injuries during stroke rehab may help improve patients’ clinical outcomes and reduce associated costs, investigators say.

Older patients with IBD frequently have impaired functioning and should be assessed for signs of frailty, researchers say.

Patients in the intervention group experienced a 10% reduction in moderate side effects — without significant chemotherapy modifications or dose reductions, investigators say.

The training includes four virtual, on-demand courses that give providers an overview of key clinical considerations for performing these assessments in the nursing home setting, the agency announced.

Virtual infection prevention and control assessments reached four times as many skilled nursing facilities as onsite visits in the same timeframe, according to a study in 92 SNFs early in the pandemic.

We often see a phenomenon in rehab patients at initial presentation. Many times they are not as they appear.

With therapy documentation being put under the microscope more than ever, you would be wise to make sure standardized assessment tools are at your fingertips. Unbiased views of data and outcomes information...

Finding and training qualified nurses remains one of the field’s top challenges, the head of a top senior care nurses’ group said Monday.

How could we not see it coming? That’s the question I asked myself Tuesday.