Resident Safety:
No Fun In The Sun When Taking These Meds
Is your resident taking any of these common prescription or OTC drugs?
Long-Term Care Survey Alert
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Long-Term Care Survey Alert
- Clinical Care:
Avoid Using Wounding Wound Care Practices
Follow these 4 rules of thumb for healing wounds effectively. Your facility's wound outcomes will [...] - Special Focus:
Family Abuse: Be In The Know To Prevent, Detect Family Abuse At The Get-Go
These key strategies will help protect residents and your facility. You have to protect residents [...] - Risk Management:
Set Families Up For Successful Offsite Visits With Their Residents
Implement these strategies before residents leave. The two cardinal rules for ensuring a resident's off-premise [...] - Resident Safety:
Protect Residents From Drug-Photo Reactions
Certain meds + sun a dangerous combination make. All residents need adequate sun protection when [...] - Resident Safety:
No Fun In The Sun When Taking These Meds
Is your resident taking any of these common prescription or OTC drugs? According to an article [...] - Risk Management:
Stay On The Right Side Of Documentation
4 ways to ensure your nursing notes make the grade. A few nursing documentation strategies [...] - Care Planning:
Clean Up Your Documentation With The SOAP Approach
Zero in on a problem's status... fast Using a SOAP approach for documentation can help [...] - Documentation:
Check Out This Sample SOAP Note From The RAI User's Manual
Documentation captures subjective, objective info. The following example shows the SOAP method in action for [...] - Risk Management:
Here's How To Reduce Your Liability Insurance Premiums
Educate your liability insurance broker about deficiencies and risks In a more perfect survey world, [...] - Survey Trends:
A Survey Revisit Fee Looms For FY 2007 -- But Will It Stay?
Nursing facilities haven't escaped a survey revisit fee for FY 2007 É but almost. The [...] - Clinical Care:
Read The Early Signs Of Dehydration Before It's Too Late
Think dehydration anytime a resident has these symptoms. Hindsight is 20/20, especially if you're a [...] - Clip And Save:
Are Your Residents Drinking Enough Fluids?
Here are 15 cool ways to ensure they do. An ounce of prevention goes a [...] - Survey News To Use
It's time to tighten up your restraint definitions and assessments. A new Centers for Medicare [...]
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