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Embracing Loss: Empowering Grief Support for Nursing Staff
What does your company offer for grief support? Have you loss a patient and couldn’t wrap your head around it? Did you ever come to work and a patient died that you didn’t expect? What did you do? How did you feel? How did you get over the pain of unexpected loss? I remember when…
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Elders deserve this committment everyday…….. Proclamation 10596 of June 14, 2023World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, 2023
see details in site below: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-06-20/pdf/2023-13170.pdf Preventing elder abuse is crucial to ensuring the safety, well-being, and dignity of older adults. Here are some thoughts on how to prevent elder abuse: Raise General Public Awareness: Decrease Elder Risk: Help Caregivers of Elders Lastly….. Remember, preventing elder abuse requires a collective effort from individuals, communities, and…
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Chronic Care Management and Connected Care
Visit the following pages for resources in understanding what this means for your residents. https://www.cms.gov/about-cms/agency-information/omh/health-equity-programs/c2c/ccm#:~:text=CCM%20is%20care%20coordination%20services,%2Fdecompensation%2C%20or%20functional%20decline. https://www.cms.gov/files/document/chronic-care-management-faqs.pdf Division of Practitioner Services, CCM FAQs, last updated August 16, 2022 Page 4 of 10 Yes. CCM is priced in both facility and non-facility settings. The POS on the claim should be the location where the billing practitioner would ordinarily…
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From Meds to Minutes: Nurses’ Strategies for Curbing Unnecessary Medications and Timing Errors
Have you ever began your med pass for your residents and thought ………. Wow, I am never going to be in compliance with ……… Your state regulations for administration of Medications Do you know what a potential timing med error is ? “Count a wrong time error if the medication is administered 60 or more…
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Because you told me this is what is needed Most…….
Are you having difficulty understanding coding…….. Watch these>>>>> Diagnosis Coding: Using the ICD-10-CM (October 2022) (Contact Hours 60 min.) Procedure Coding: Using the ICD-10-PCS (October 2022) (Contact Hours 60 min.) Note: https://www.cms.gov/outreach-and-education/medicare-learning-network-mln/mlnproducts/webbasedtraining “ MLN Web-Based Training “Free, self-paced learning on a broad range of topics for health care providers. We no longer offer continuing education credits for…
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It Matters……
Do you know who I am I want to be called by my name Not referred to as room 222 I hear you in the hallway When someone asks if you are assigned to me As you reply he is not mine But I am you see Because you don’t refer to me as AL…
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MDS Nurses are you aware of new survey resources shared 6/2023 for Beneficiary Notices??
To find the information below see http://Survey Resources – 06/05/2023 (ZIP) found: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/provider-enrollment-and-certification/guidanceforlawsandregulations/nursing-homes You will also find when you visit the above website a list of Beneficiary Notice Scenarios for Surveyors to review DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES SNF Beneficiary Notification Review Beneficiary Notification Review: Complete the review for…
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I believe that we need more companies that embrace the concept: ” successful groups giving roughly equal time to each other, so that no one voice dominated, but neither were there any passengers.”
I was interested in this study because my father had a chicken farm in Florida and the study peaked my interest. Is there a pecking order at your work… Watch and learn Do you have a voice or Are you merely a passenger…. Become part of a solution not merely an observer Everyones’ voice is…