Clinical

Managing Resident Calls for Help

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Training Staff in Resident Transfers

Training Staff in Resident TransfersThis facility's approach to transfer techniques yielded improved resident and staff safety-and lower costsBY ANDI Read More »

Consultant Pharmacists: Saving Lives and Money

Consultant Pharmacists: Saving Lives and MoneyINTERVIEW WITH STEVE FELDMAN, RPH, FASCP Practicing senior care pharmacy is one of the most challenging Read More »

Weight Loss Prevention Strategies: What Is Your Facility’s Score?

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Helping Residents Stay Dry

Helping Residents Stay DryAN INTERVIEW WITH MARY H. PALMER, PHD Because of physical changes associated with aging and sometimes caused by cognitive Read More »

Caring for Patients With AIDS

An interview with John R. Brechtl, MD, FACP  Patients with AIDS can present unique challenges to nursing homes. Not only do they tend to be younger Read More »

Not Just an “Old Folks’ Home”

An interview with David Fridkin, FACHE, and Eulalia Awan, RNIllustration: "The Bus," by Frida Kahlo, 1929  Imagine finding yourself confined to a Read More »

When Drugs Don’t Kill ‘Bugs’

When Drugs Don't Kill 'Bugs'Strategies for preventing the spread of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteriaBY ROBERT J. SHARBAUGH, PHD, Read More »

Caring for Aging Skin

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The Case of the Missing Medical Records

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Pressure Ulcers: Case Study and Lessons Learned

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Reduction of Risk for Falls Program

Reduction of Risk for Falls Program Adapted from a 2002 OPTIMA Award entry by Evangelical Manor, PhiladelphiaBy Barbara Hacker, RN, MEd, NHA For Read More »

Managing Pressure Ulcer Risk in Long-Term Care

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2002 Optima Award Winner – The Safety Program: Sunset for Sundowning

Adapted from the submission by Bortz Health Care of Traverse City, Traverse City, Michigan; written by Debra Hagerty, BS, BSN, MSN, SW, Director of Read More »

Chronic Pain: We’ re Undertreating the Elderly

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Teamwork: A Winning Approach to Wound Care

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Fighting Elder Depression: A Battle That Can Be Won

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Strategies for Improving Resident’s Nighttime Sleep

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Handwashing: Doing it Right

Adapted from Hand Hygiene Practices, a publication of DebMed, manufacturer of skin care products, with permission. Most modern healthcare Read More »

New Drugs in the Long-Term Care Setting, Part 1

New Drugs in the Long-Term Care Setting, Part 1 A quick look at the benefits, uses and abuses of some recent candidates for LTC formularies B y James Read More »

A New Era in Lift / Transfer

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Only You Can Prevent Pressure Ulcers

Only You Can Prevent Pressure UlcersInterview With Kenneth Olshansky, MD Bedsores. Pressure ulcers. Decubiti. Pressure sores. No matter what you call Read More »

More to Incontinence Management Than Meets the Eye

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Long – Term Care Nurses Speak Out

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2001 OPTIMA Award: Developing an On-Site Dialysis Treatment Center

Developing an On-Site Dialysis Treatment Center. Adapted from the submission by the Glengariff Health Care Center, Glen Cove, New York. Read More »

Nonsurgical Options for Treating Incontinence

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Wound Care: What’s Really Cost-Effective?

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Pressure Relief: Please Take a Chair

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Continence Care: Enhanced Protocols for Assisted Living

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