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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

Many older Americans receive care from aging services facilities across the United States. There are currently about 14 million people receiving some form of long-term care services. However, aging service facilities need more staffing to meet regulatory and quality of care standards.

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Understanding social determinants of health and rehab

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Social determinants of health, understanding what they are, their impact on patient care, and their influence on effective transitions across care settings are all essential for rehab providers. Renee Kinder. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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Nursing Informatics: Vital to the Profession

Nurse.com

This means integrating and applying knowledge with the objective of improving processes and procedures with patient care. Nurses and other front-line healthcare providers help drive information technology, including how it ultimately improves patient care, Newbold said. The career is certainly evolving. “I

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Patient and family engagement — understanding CoreQ

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

We know that ensuring that patients and families are engaged as partners is an effective way to measure the quality of patient care. The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.

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Health literacy and rehab: The deviled eggs are in the details

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

The peeling process is much like the layers of patient complexity rehab professionals must strip away daily, essential for providing the highest level of quality patient care and supporting a health literate culture. Let’s begin with a definition of health literacy. Who knows what treasures you will find!

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What your therapy team should know about the CMS REACH Model

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

We also know that our skilled care, its impacts and the patients’ ability to maintain functional abilities extends well beyond the time during which direct care provision is provided. With patient care and rehab, like raising children, it takes a village. The rehab is never just about therapy alone.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Amanda Sternklar ( 01:03 ): Since 2019, homo has achieved over 90% unit growth and expanded its footprint into more than 30 new states. Laura is the executive Vice President of Home Well Care Services. Gone are the days of looking at patient care through a vacuum, only focusing on what we can do within our scope of practice.