CMS updated key timelines for public reporting changes that affect nursing homes, including delaying a quality measure recalculation.

Maggie Tarling, MSc, BSc, RGN, is integrated care pathways coordinator at University Hospital, Lewisham Paul Lambirth, RGN, is ward manager surgery;Therese Mackey, RGN, is ward manager ...

Background: Pressure ulcers present serious health and economic consequences for nursing home residents. The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, in partnership with the New York State Department ...

The goal of this project was to determine whether the use of bar-code medication administration complied with current evidence as to how it should be used. Using an evidence-based checklist, we ...

A key challenge for the first wave of trainee nursing associates has been “limited understanding and acceptance” of the controversial new role among colleagues, an independent evaluation has found.

Aster DM Healthcare has announced the launch of the fifth edition of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award, one of the ...

About half the nursing homes in Franklin County are "much below average," according to ratings released by the federal government yesterday. Twenty-five of the county's 51 nursing homes received one ...

Twelve of 15 Valley nursing facilities — eight in Northumberland County — still fall far short on quality of care, according to a comparison system the federal government introduced two years ago, ...