why-nurses-assist-falling-patients-despite-the-risk 
AJN Off the Charts
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Joe presses the call light so a nurse can help him to the bathroom. The nurses have been reminding him to do that so he won’t fall. The nurses have been reminding him to do that so he won’t fall. I don’t want to bother the nurses. They need to help the patients who really need it.”
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
MARCH 14, 2024
That’s why this is a must-know topic. We know in the realm of skilled nursing facilities, therapists play a crucial role in evaluating and treating residents to optimize their functional abilities and quality of life. It would be a critical misstep personally, but also procedurally, for your organization not to do so.
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Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 23, 2023
As nursing professionals, we know that regular physical activity is one of the most important things we can do for our overall health and well-being. Home healthcare nursing is a collaborative team approach to patient care. But it’s often overlooked, especially for those with severe disabilities.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 27, 2022
As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. What makes prognostic models for mortality different from models used for anticoagulation or risk of renal injury? She has a point. Sei: Howdy.
Pallimed
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Medicine is not immune to such moral panics, and in the case of opioid policy, patients using opioid analgesics - whether to treat pain or opioid use disorder - became the group posing a “threat to society (9),” while physician advocates for unfocused reductions in opioid prescribing became moral entrepreneurs (9, 10).
Pallimed
MAY 3, 2021
by Chad Kollas, MD ( @ChadDKollas ) Introduction A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has captured the attention of the palliative care and chronic pain communities (1). They declared that “Guidelines for long-term opioid therapy should not be developed by the field of pain medicine alone.
GeriPal
JUNE 9, 2022
Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? Can nudges help? (see
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