Clinician re-training sorely needed for blood pressure measurement: survey
One-third of nurses and half of doctors surveyed report that they haven’t been retrained in blood pressure measurement since leaving professional school.
Training
Beware frog holes and ‘I don’t knows’
Is there anything more thrilling on a winter day than sledding down the neighborhood’s steepest hill, across freshly fallen snow, in an inner tube? I think not.
Watching out for the hungry HIPAA
Amid all the focus on new rules for nursing homes, we can’t forget the old ones and the need to audit, train and document.
Ask the Nursing Expert about … staff competencies
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, knowledge, and abilities? If so, how often?” “In what areas have you been assessed?” “In what areas do you believe you need more assistance or training?”
Staying focused in long-term care
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 as an industry.
Biodex releases trainer
Biodex Medical Systems Inc. has launched the Sit2Stand Trainer, part of its Mobility Enhancement family of devices.
AMDA to receive $1.6 million for training from civil monetary penalties
AMDA-The Society for Post-Acute and Long-term Care Medicine will receive $1.62 million in civil money penalty funds over three years in order to improve long-term care, the organization announced.
Podewitz appointed as VP of sales and marketing for Elder Care Alliance
Julie Podewitz has been appointed as vice president of sales and marketing for Elder Care Alliance, a nonprofit, integrated system of assisted living and memory care community in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Preventing burnout in long-term care
In my recent post, “Stuff I won’t do for residents and why your staff shouldn’t either,” I wrote about the need for individual workers to set appropriate boundaries around caregiving in order to retain the ability to give without burning out. In this article, I examine more closely the symptoms of burnout and ways facilities can reduce its likelihood — which is particularly important given the link between burnout and turnover.
Senior care priorities and questions
Why is there such a divergence in senior care when state and federal regulations are pretty much the same across this great country of ours? I suspect the answer lies in how individual organizations prioritize their spending. We must allot more for caregiver training.
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