Any suggestions on how to stop a resident with advanced dementia from urinating in the heat/air vent in his room. He is ambulatory and wanders, resides in a memory care unit. Staff offers toileting assist, but he still owes in the vent at times.
What is your policy or protocol for making sure Fentanyl patches stay on the resident? Do your nurses check every shift and sign off that the patch is still on the resident? Do you cover with a cosmopore dressing? What have you found that works? We h...
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Our nurses are not good at charting on skilled therapy residents. They think only therapy should deal with this part but it all ties in together on the residents recovery. I would like to have some cheat sheets for areas for nursing documentation. It...
For Medicare Skilled residents charting does your facility chart every shift or daily charting? The requirements say the resident must need a "daily" nurisng assessment or therapy 5xweek. So are we required to chart every shift?
Does anyone have a suggestion for a name for a program to promote employee morale and cost cutting suggestions. We have the program details but need a name. We want to use something other than "bright ideas". Any ideas are appreciated.
Does anyone have a falls risk assessment fo peds. We just went through a Joint Commission survey and they want us to have a risk assessment for peds in the home setting. Can you share with me please?
Has anyone ever held a Skills Fair for nurses and aides in your facility? Our annual competencies are due this month and my administrator wants us to have a fair. I need ideas and tips.
Has anyone every held a Skills Fair in your facility for nurses and aides? Our annual competencies are due this month and my administrator wants us to have a fair. Any tips and ideas to help me?
Our facility policy is that we do not reimburse for any clothing garments unless we did something to damage the actual garment, such as shrinking or something like that. I offered myself to go and buy a package of the less expensive kind but ohhhh no...