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October 2011 Loud screams echo in the hallway. A nurse’s attention shifts from the chart she was working on to the room from which the screams are coming. She runs toward the resident and provides verbal reassurance, coupled with physical comfort of rubbing his arm and shoulder. The screams cease. The nurse walks away and resumes charting when the screams echo again.
This scenario routinely occurs in long term care settings, with many challenging behaviors such as screaming out, aggression, and sometimes hitting. Such behaviors can increase over time, with staff often habituating a behavior-response pattern.
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October 2011 Loud screams echo in the hallway. A nurse’s attention shifts from the chart she was working on to the room from which the screams are coming. She runs toward the resident and provides verbal reassurance, coupled with physical comfort of rubbing his arm and shoulder. The screams cease. The nurse walks away and resumes charting when the screams echo again.
This scenario routinely occurs in long term care settings, with many challenging behaviors such as screaming out, aggression, and sometimes hitting. Such behaviors can increase over time, with staff often habituating a behavior-response pattern.
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January 2012 Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted the study and singled out four drugs and drug classes as the cause of most emergency visits. They are warfarin, oral antiplatelet medications, insulins, and oral hypoglycemic agents. Alone or together, they account for 67 percent of emergency ADE hospitalizations of adults 65 years and older. Warfarin was implicated in 33 percent of cases, lead author Daniel Budnitz, MD, director of CDC’s medication safety program, said. January 2012 The reason for the study is that currently available pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments have shown only modest effects in slowing the progression of dementia. The study’s objective was to assess the impact of a long-term nonpharmacological group intervention on cognitive function in patients with dementia and on their ability to carry out activities of daily living (ADLs) compared with a control group receiving the usual care. January 2012 Doctors are stressed out, according to a recent national survey of U.S. physicians. Conducted by Cejka Search, the survey found that the majority of U.S. physicians are moderately to severely stressed or burned out on an average day, with nearly 63 percent of respondents saying their stress has risen moderately to dramatically in the past three years.
November 2011 More than half of patient deaths in the populations served in nursing facilities result from progressive, chronic illnesses and are, therefore, predictable in their timing. By recognizing the advanced stages of terminal disease, health care professionals (physicians, nurses, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners) can greatly impact the circumstances surrounding their patients’ deaths. October 2011 Loud screams echo in the hallway. A nurse’s attention shifts from the chart she was working on to the room from which the screams are coming. She runs toward the resident and provides verbal reassurance, coupled with physical comfort of rubbing his arm and shoulder. The screams cease. The nurse walks away and resumes charting when the screams echo again.
This scenario routinely occurs in long term care settings, with many challenging behaviors such as screaming out, aggression, and sometimes hitting. Such behaviors can increase over time, with staff often habituating a behavior-response pattern. September 2011 The patient population in nursing facilities is different than it was 10 or 20 years ago, and so is how such conditions are addressed. Developments and promising trends in treatments, medications, and diagnostics are designed to improve outcomes and increase efficiency. August 2011 As the senior population grows, more individuals are seeking elder-specific medical care and treatment. This increased demand has revealed a frightening reality: The medical field is not keeping pace. July 2011 A rehab provider successfully lowers hospitalizations through community and hospital collaboration. April 2011 New advancements in rehab technology and engineering are aimed at motivating patients to engage in their own therapy and promoting a basic tenet of nearly all physical therapy rehab programs—movement and repetition. January 2011 Root-cause analysis and a four-step action plan can improve performance and quality of care following a serious patient incident.
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