Long-Term Care Survey Alert
ONLINE CENTER PROVIDES DRUG SHORTAGE GUIDANCE
If your long-term care facility is having difficulty keeping certain meds in stock, check out the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists online Drug Product Shortages Management Center on the trade group’s Web site (www.ashp.org).
Visitors to the virtual center will find lists of current and resolved drug shortage bulletins. By clicking on each drug, the health provider can find out the reason for the shortage, the estimated resupply dates, implications of the shortage on patient care — and alternative drug agents and patient management.
ASHP says it launched the center to help pharmacists, providers and drug inventory managers to navigate the ongoing drug shortage that continues to plague all health care settings.
Long-Term Care Survey Alert
- Quality of Care:
6 CARE MYTHS THAT CAN DERAIL RESIDENT CARE AND SURVEYS
continues to disseminate more evidence- based practices through its Webcasts and surveyor training. Below experts [...] - Survey Management:
COUNTERACT SURVEYORS' 'TALL TALES' ABOUT NURSING HOMES
The facility might be wise to take pictures of the resident’s preexisting pressure ulcers and [...] - Resident Assessment:
DEPRESSION MISCONCEPTIONS STAND IN THE WAY OF ASSESSMENT
Be honest: Do you secretly expect nursing home residents to be a little depressed or [...] - Resident Care Documentation:
SIDESTEP FEDERAL CRACKDOWN ON FALSE DOCUMENTATION
Federal regulators are now targeting falsified resident care records, so make sure your staff chart [...] - Regulatory Compliance:
WATCH OUT FOR SUBTLE FORMS OF 'CHARTING PARTIES'
The stereotypical idea of “charting parties,” where nurses with four different colored pens furiously fill [...] - Best Practices:
BATHE RESIDENTS WITHOUT FIGHTS OR F TAGS
Expect surveyors to take a closer look not only at how you’re bathing residents, but [...] - Best Practices:
5 WAYS TO REDUCE PAIN DURING THE BATH
Nurse researcher JoAnne Rader discovered that the bathing time uncovers a lot of unrecognized or [...] - Survey Management:
CAN YOU ASK SURVEYORS NOT TO COME BACK?
What nursing home provider hasn’t occasionally felt like showing a surveyor the door? Many nursing [...] - Regulatory Trends:
HHS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS KEY SURVEY, MDS REFORMS
Life could get a lot easier for nursing homes if the Health & Human Services’ [...] - Pharmacology:
BEXTRA LINKED TO LIFETHREATENING SKIN CONDITIONS
If a resident taking Bextra develops a skin rash, stop the medication immediately. That’s the [...] - Drug Inventory Management:
ONLINE CENTER PROVIDES DRUG SHORTAGE GUIDANCE
If your long-term care facility is having difficulty keeping certain meds in stock, check out [...] - Alzheimer's Disease:
BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS BIGGEST COST DRIVER IN ALZHEIMER'S CARE
Here’s one study finding that nursing homes could write the book on: Behavioral symptoms in [...]
