Tag: nursing
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Today’s tip from Skilled Nursing Support to remind Nurses why Nursing is still where they should stay.
Nursing has so many choices for career paths. One can work as a nurse with different levels of degrees. One can work with different age populations . One can work in different specialities. The choice is yours. If you are unhappy in the current speciality then pivot. Learn new skills. Be Curious, become creative. Sometimes…
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Skilled Nursing Support Tip 2 to stay in Nursing is to realize………
Nurses you are so busy taking care of others that often you forget to take care of you. Leave comments below if you enjoyed this content
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Attention Health Care facilities please read Guidance for the Expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) released May 1st
https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-23-13-all.pdf Also included is what surveyors should be assessing when in facilities for compliance.
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The Goal is to let me help you want to stay on your nursing career path. Here is the first tip of the week:
When you are thinking of leaving this profession remember all the lives that you have made a difference in. Your talent and expertise had the direct impact that promoted positive outcomes for the patients you took care of. Remember all of these beautiful outcomes that happened because you and your compassion and expertise as a…
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Are you one of the nurses who left the profession? Do you want to return to the profession you used to love. Let me help you re-enter the field with a new sense of purpose.
https://www.ncsbn.org/news/ncsbn-research-projects-significant-nursing-workforce-shortages-and-crisis According to the ncsbn research, “The data reveals that 100,000 nurses left the workforce during the pandemic and by 2027, almost 900,000, or almost one-fifth of 4.5 million total registered nurses, intend to leave the workforce, threatening the national health care system at large if solutions are not enacted.” The full report relates the…
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Just Released The White House “Announces Most Sweeping Set of Executive Actions to Improve Care in History”
See fact sheet: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/18/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-most-sweeping-set-of-executive-actions-to-improve-care-in-history/ President Biden to “build on the minimum staffing standards for nursing homes and condition a portion of Medicare payments on how well a nursing home retains workers.”
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MMQ Nurses MassHealth has scheduled a Nursing Facility MDS Training. Sign up for educational link posted on Mass Senior Care
https://www.maseniorcare.org/member-resources/e-news-updates/masshealth-transition-patient-driven-payment-model-pdpm-masshealth April 14, 2023 Mass Senior Care has long supported and advocated for the conversion of the Medicaid MMQ payment system to the Federal MDS acuity system thereby eliminating the administrative burden of operating 2 acuity systems and to better capture the cost of resident care, which will become effective on October 1, 2023. MassHealth…
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MDS Draft RAI just released now the work can begin:
https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/NursingHomeQualityInits/MDS30RAIManual If you as a MDS coordinator or anyone in your facility needs help in educating your staff please reach out to Skilled Nursing Support Maria.messina@skillednursingsupport.com Call for a discovery call of what I may be able to help you with. 1-617-429-9903
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Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Quality Reporting Program (QRP) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) 2023
Do you understand the SNF quality reporting system? Please review answers to questions on link below. https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-initiatives-patient-assessment-instruments/nursinghomequalityinits/skilled-nursing-facility-quality-reporting-program/snf-quality-reporting-program-faqs- See actual questions here: FY2023-SNF-QRP-FAQs (PDF)
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Learn the Nursing MDS role to enhance your worklife balance and still impact your patients care. https://mariamessina.mastermind.com/masterminds/44606 Are you a Nurse who had feelings of anxiety, or stress trying to complete your duties assigned for your shift? Do you worry that you did not provide the best care for your residents? In this program you…