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Navigating the World of Long-Term Care: A Guide for Nurses

Minority Nurse

In the vast and varied landscape of healthcare careers, long-term care is sometimes overlooked. What is Long-term Care? Long-term care (LTC) refers to a range of services to meet a person’s health or personal care needs for an extended period.

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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. Finally, let’s review what key areas were present in this year’s SNF proposed rule surround SODH. Renee Kinder.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

Minority Nurse

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. I started this initiative by creating a presentation to refresh us on defining key research terms and levels of evidence.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

Minority Nurse

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. How long have you worked in nursing? July 23, 1984, to present.

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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. Before, in the primary nurse model, the nurse did much of the patient’s care. We can drive quality patient outcomes.

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Change Is Now the “Constant” for Nurses in Infection Control

Nurse.com

The renewed focus on how infection control in nursing is presented to healthcare professionals is among the major lessons learned since 2020. Post-COVID-19 focus No matter the setting, COVID-19 had an impact on hundreds of thousands of patients and healthcare professionals. difficile can be prevented.

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