Facilities across the country, whether they are ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designated hospitals, designation hopefuls, or just seeking to improve their quality of care, struggle daily with ...

Providers are cautiously finding ways to treat residents who have been untethered by nursing home reform, bringing new challenges. One of the great stories in Neville Strumpf’s considerable arsenal is ...

Advancing Excellence, a voluntary, nationwide campaign formed to improve care in nursing homes has done just that, organizers say. There has been a drop in the number of pressure ulcers and the use of ...

CARY ó Ten N.C. nursing homes, including one in Albemarle, achieved significant success in finding alternatives to restraints after completing a special, six-month initiative to reduce their use of ...

The wheelchair restraint was supposed to protect Adele Stromberg — to keep the fragile nursing home resident from falling. But on the morning of April 20, the 82-year-old Norwich woman slipped down in ...

Residents of a long-term care facility have the right to freedom from chemical restraints. A chemical restraint is given for a purpose other than it’s intended use, and given for punishment, coercion, ...

In this programme, two experts watch and discuss a number of scenarios filmed in a care home setting which explore different aspects of the complex issue of restraint. They examine the blatant and ...

A new Cochrane review finds that the use of physical restraints on care home residents can be reduced without increasing the risk of falls, when frontline care staff are empowered by supportive ...

According to the National Council on Aging (NCOA), as many as 5 million older Americans are abused each year, and many of them live in nursing homes. Nursing homes use restraints with the intention to ...

Government policies aimed at curbing excessive use of powerful psychiatric drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes are probably having an unintended side effect: greater use of anti-seizure ...