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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

However, after watching a group of tiny 7-year-olds wake before the sun with smiles, joyfully clean stalls, bathe their ponies, and ride with pride, I was changing my tune to, “Girl, your horse friends are solid people.”. Their constant support for each other: “We don’t care who wins. Bathe, shovel, graze your horse, anything at all?”

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CNA Week Recognizes Certified Nursing Assistants

Minority Nurse

To help ensure the success of CNAs and the highest quality of caregiving, the NAHCA advocates for CNAs by working closely with healthcare providers and the long-term care facilities where many CNAs work. CNAs work under the direct supervision of a nurse and so must learn how to advocate for themselves and for their patients.

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Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

The contract Acumen LLC operates under is the Quality Measure & Assessment Instrument Development & Maintenance & QRP Support for the Long Term Care Hospital, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Skilled Nursing Facility, Quality Reporting Programs, & Nursing Home Compare (75FCMC18D0015/Task Order 75FCMC19F0003).

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Keeping Alzheimer’s Patients at Home With Memory Care

Comfort Home Care

Personal care : Help with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, and help with eating. Cost-effective: In most cases, in-home care is more cost-effective than other forms of long-term care.

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How to Fix the Nursing Shortage and Address Burnout: Veteran Nurse Leader Has the Answers

Daily Nurse

We need to understand most nurses in acute care and long-term care settings now are novice nurses or nurses who have only been in the profession for a few years. In a team model, the nurses oversee the care by unlicensed assistive personnel. But we have to do that to care for our patients appropriately.

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Boredom and Dementia Patients

Hope Hospice

Many family members who care for a loved one living with dementia experience difficult behaviors. Examples are struggling to get the patient to cooperate with eating and bathing, as well as sundowning-related problems such as agitation, paranoia, repetitive speech, and increased confusion in the afternoon or evening hours.

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Caregiving Best Practices: Hire In-Home Help

Hope Hospice

2) Home Care/Personal Care. This type of in-home assistance offers basic functional, non-medical help such as bathing, dressing, grooming, dining, medication reminders, shopping, light housekeeping, companionship, shopping, etc. This type of care is also referred to as custodial care.