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Activities that foster residents with Dementia to sleep at night resource
Dementia and inability to sleep
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Navigating Dark Moments in Your Nursing Career: Rediscovering Your Passion
Have you ever questioned if you wanted to continue with your nursing profession? Did you ever have a moment or event in your journey that made you question if you chose the right profession? I did and it was a very frightening time in my career. I was working as a psychiatric nurse and I…
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Music sets me free
Poem Created by: Maria Messina June 2023 Here I sit in my chair confused as can be But when I hear music I am free I forget how to move most days my caretakers would agree But when I am dancing I remember and I can move and I am free Most days I don’t…
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Unlocking Medicaid Reimbursement: Empowering MA MMQ Nurses with July MDS Preparation
Reminder that October 1st 2023, Medicaid will be utilizing the Nursing PDPM Component for Medicaid reimbursement. What does that mean? MDS’s Completed beginning in July could be the MDS’s utilized for Medicaid Payment. Be prepared: Ensure that in July MDS’s have the Correct Medicaid Number coded Ensure that all Nursing PDPM Clinical conditions are coded…
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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…