Bulk of nursing home work for nurse practitioners remains nonclinical, finds study
The role of a nurse practitioner in these settings is a hybrid of nursing consultant and a fee‐for‐service clinician, say researchers.
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Fired nursing home workers to split $100K sexual harassment settlement
The owner of an Arkansas nursing home has agreed to pay $100,000 to former employees whose sexual harassment and wrongful termination allegations were taken up by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Without confession, nursing home serial killer might never have been caught
After two years of investigation, a Canadian inquiry has found that an eight-time nursing home murderer would have eluded detection without her self-provoked confession.
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One-third of nursing homes cannot meet behavioral health needs … Beta-blockers reduce anger-related Afib episodes … Fast fluid removal in dialysis tied to higher death risk
Nursing home signs ‘groundbreaking contract,’ doles out bonuses to staffers for cutting back bed sores
One New York nursing home is trying an outside-the-box approach to keeping residents safe.
‘We have to do better’ on infection prevention, CMS official tells LTC nurse managers during new survey update
Nursing homes’s new survey routine seems to be going smoothly, about half a year in, but infection prevention problems continue to plague the field.
Facility accused in Irma deaths loses court battle
A Florida nursing home — which was the site of several residents’ deaths after Hurricane Irma — was dealt a blow Wednesday in its attempts to reopen.
Ruling on nursing home arbitration shows the fine print counts
Signing on the dotted line counts in arbitration cases, even if the text explaining that arbitration is voluntary isn’t in bold print.
Rating methods worlds apart
Users who rate nursing homes on social media often use more service-oriented criteria than government officials do, say academic researchers who stacked facilities’ Yelp reviews against Nursing Home Compare rankings. The study, the second by a team of gerontologists in California, examined 264 reviews of 51 nursing homes and tracked “code” phrases to see how…
Preparedness is key
There are numerous resources available on the Internet to help you choose the right nursing home for an ailing parent or loved one.
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