Healthcare professionals create care plans to help manage conditions such as pulmonary embolism. Planning may help improve outcomes and prevent future occurrences of the condition. Care plans are an ...

Q: Our facility was recently cited under F-656, Comprehensive Care Plans, for the third year in a row. How can we ensure compliance? A:F-656 is one of the top 10 most-cited deficiencies. The ...

Medicare doesn’t cover nonmedical long-term care. This is why purchasing a policy to help with a long-term need becomes ...

Given their day-to-day, intimate interaction with residents, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are uniquely positioned to contribute to care planning and interdisciplinary care team (IDT) meetings, ...

Medicare does cover skilled nursing care for up to 100 days, but only under limited circumstances, such as when you've just ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) isn’t just one condition. It’s a family of diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis that interfere with your breathing. In chronic bronchitis, ...

Thinking about the future makes Courtney Johnson nervous. The 25-year-old blogger and college student has autism and several chronic illnesses, and with the support of her grandparents and friends, ...

They compensate providers such as doctors and hospitals on quality rather than volume of care, and they engage and assist ...

Nurse leaders craft 5-year plan to address staffing challenges. Faced with a nursing shortage expected to stretch well into the next decade, CommonSpirit Health has launched a five-year strategic plan ...

The 2025 tax and spending law lowers the federal loan borrowing limits for nursing students, raising the up-front costs of ...