Assisited Living DONs--anyone here?

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I have been the DON for about 8 months up here in the Seattle area. I am having difficulty finding good resources to review for Assisted Living. Ifind myself haveing to reply on NH guidelines and policies and trying to adapt them to assisted living. Anyone have any good resources for the Assisted Living Nurses?

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hey, marla, was wondering where you were. too busy playing administrator, huh? but sounds like you're doing a great job.

have you guys had any noro virus outbreaks? we're in the process of gearing up, just in case. heard it was in albany and another facility here in town had it too. sounds pretty difficult to prevent being such a sturdy little bug. well, let's not think about that for the moment, shall we?

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
hey, marla, was wondering where you were. too busy playing administrator, huh? but sounds like you're doing a great job.

have you guys had any noro virus outbreaks? we're in the process of gearing up, just in case. heard it was in albany and another facility here in town had it too. sounds pretty difficult to prevent being such a sturdy little bug. well, let's not think about that for the moment, shall we?

there's been norovirus at osu, and just today i literally ejected a caregiver from the facility and told her to stay home this weekend; seems she's been ill with fever and diarrhea since last sunday night but didn't tell anybody, and she worked sunday night...........:trout:

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There's been Norovirus at OSU, and just today I literally ejected a caregiver from the facility and told her to stay home this weekend; seems she's been ill with fever and diarrhea since last Sunday night but didn't tell anybody, and she WORKED Sunday night...........:trout:

Was reading the info from the CDC, and they were saying up to 30% of people with the virus are asymptomatic, and having just one person working in the facility with it could be enough to spread it throughout the place very quickly. You are right - slap the heck out of her with that fish!

We've stopped allowing anyone except kitchen staff to be in the kitchen, and just hoping everyone is washing their hands like they should. :eek:

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Specializes in LTC, Dementia, Acute care.

My facility got hit in Washington about 2 months ago. 75% sick in the Resident population. Our other facility had a 85% sick rate, but higher acuity.

Word of warning. Norwalk is NOT killed by hand sanitizers. Staff must wash hands or use enough hand sanitizer that you hands stay wet for 1 minute. Use a 10% bleach 'activated' solution, normal bleach solutions are not effective either. We had an excellent infection control guru that I was able to get good guildlines from during our outbreak.

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