Is it true that during new survey process, surveyors will ask staff nurses and nursing assistants about their competencies, with questions such as, “Do you receive periodic evaluations on your skills,...
Nurses, help your patients by helping yourselves
By
Marla J. Weston, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Martie Moore, RN, MAOM, CPHQ
Oct 19, 2015
Ask a nurse how she consoles patients with difficult diagnoses, stabilizes a critical patient or quickly saves a life. Nurses do these things masterfully, and often. But ask a nurse how she takes care...
Want better outcomes? Work less
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Sep 22, 2015
It’s no wonder that the latest experiment in shorter, more efficient work days comes out of Europe.
Staying focused in long-term care
By
Allison True
Mar 13, 2015
Political correctness is a concept that has been around since the first activists in the University of Wisconsin Madison added it to our language and our thinking. Inevitably, it reached long-term care...
Practical tips for improving frontline staff morale
By
Paul White
Jan 22, 2015
Long-term care leaders often realize their team members are stressed, but they don’t know what to do to encourage them. This can lead to very bad situations.
Managing time for staff to reflect after a resident’s death
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 23, 2014
Singing “Amazing Grace” or playing a ukelele version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” may not immediately spring to mind as ways to help staff members grieve after a resident has...
Ask the nursing expert … about improving customer service
By
Angel McGarrity-Davis, RN, CDONA, NHA
Oct 01, 2014
I’m a new unit manager and I see a lack of good customer service. What can I do?
Nursing home residents appreciate caring staff, but workers could do a better job honoring resident wishes,...
By
Tim Mullaney
Jan 10, 2014
Caring staff members who form close relationships with residents are a strength of long-term care facilities, but workers could more consistently honor residents’ choices and privacy, according to...
Gen X members seek more degrees, other credentials
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 01, 2013
There’s good news for long-term care facilities trying to hire staff with more education: More than 1 in 10 members of Generation X are taking classes to continue their formal education, according...
The invisible battle
By
Dave Surico
Mar 01, 2013
Providers must keep caregiving environments impeccably clean — removing bugs and germs (both seen and unseen) and other threatening elements