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Nurse Residencies: Norm or Exception?

Minority Nurse

When new graduate nurses enter the labor market, many will clamor for the chance to land a position in new nurse residency programs. Presented as a game that only a lucky few can win, new nurse residencies provide great career-launching benefits for a small cohort of novice nurses. Why should these new nurses be coddled?

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. I think it’s around one in 12 nursing home patients But it’s a lot.

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Realizing a Dream: How I Earned My Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

Nurse.com

Eventually, I decided I wanted to be a nurse. In my senior year of high school, I wrote my goal for the future in my yearbook: “I will obtain my bachelor’s degree in nursing.” Of course, I lost my focus on nursing. For now, I was fine being a nurse for my children. I dried my tears and went home to nurse my child.

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Home Health Care vs. Home Care: What’s the Difference

Traditions Health

Home health care Home health care provides the support needed to help you get and stay healthy. Payment options include private pay and long-term care insurance. To find home care services that fit your budget, consider the duration and frequency of care and the tasks you need help with.

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Difference Between Private Duty Care & Medicare Home Care

Comforcare Home Care

Insurance Accepted - Medicare/HMO Private Duty Long Term Care/Private Pay/VA Benefits/Worker's comp. Type of Skill - Medicare RN/PT/OT,Infusion/Wound Care Private Duty Nursing Assistants/Aides to provide Personal Care. Personal Care - Medicare Max 2 hr. Personal Care - Medicare Max 2 hr.

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Nursing Home Mealtimes With Dementia

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

At nursing home mealtimes, I served as a hospice volunteer at several Detroit, Michigan nursing homes for many years. Petra was not a very independent eater, but I knew she was physically capable of feeding herself by any means necessary. Imitating me, she was attempting to feed George, but with her own used utensils.