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61. Best Practices to Help Nursing Home Residents and their Families to Reduce the Impact of Social Isolation (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2022 - Best Practices to Help Nursing Home Residents and their Families to Reduce the Impact of Social Isolation … Best Practices to Help Nursing Home Residents and their Families to Reduce the Impact … This document highlights ways nursing home staff can help residents and families balance the need for … HELPING RESIDENTS AND BALANCING RISK Nursing homes can give residents power in decision making by: … in these groups, and nursing homes must consider any concerns raised by the group

62. Emotional Wellness Resources for Nursing Home Staff (doc file)
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    March 01, 2022 - Emotional Wellness Resources for Nursing Home Staff Emotional Wellness … Resources for Nursing Home Staff Stress, fear, and exhaustion from being on the frontlines of the … https://emotionalppe.org/ Safe Call Now is a confidential 24-hour crisis line and support service for nursing … Contact: [Include your Nursing Home Organization’s EAP Information.

63. Toolkits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - The toolkits cover a variety of interventions that nursing homes can use to improve antibiotic use. … Toolkits To Implement, Monitor, and Sustain an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Most nursing homes … Nursing homes can use this toolkit to target these common infections when nursing home leaders want to … Nursing homes can also use the antibiogram to monitor antimicrobial stewardship and provide feedback … guidance and tools to help a nursing home create its own antibiogram based on lab results.

64. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - Improvement AHRQ has tools and resources that can help hospitals, ambulatory care practices, nursing … Resources AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network The AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home … Homes  (PDF, 1 MB) Best Practices for Promoting Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being Among Nursing … Home Staff   (PDF, 1 MB) Best Practices for Promoting Emotional Well-Being in Nursing Home Residents … Testing (PDF, 636 KB) Intramuscular Injections—Best Practices for Safe Vaccine Administration in Nursing

65. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2017 - Homes: On-Time Prevention AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention is designed … AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Prevention provides a strategy for preventing adverse … events in nursing homes. … On-Time uses a facilitator to help the nursing home's change team integrate these reports into clinical … 2017 Page originally created March 2013 Internet Citation: AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing

66. Measuring the Quality of Long-term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - Plan Quality Measuring Physician Quality Measuring Long-term Care Quality Measuring Nursing … Measuring the Quality of Long-term Care The measurement and reporting of quality of care for nursing … This section reviews measures of quality for nursing homes, home health agencies, and hospice services … Nursing Home Care Examples of Nursing Home Quality Measures for Consumers Major Nursing Home Measurement

67. PBRN Registry Search | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 24, 2024 - and/or other specialties) (62) Nursing Network (at least 75% are nurses) (5) Other (23) … PBRN Network Type: Mixed Network (a combination of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, nursing … ACHN Network Type: Mixed Network (a combination of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, nursing … ACRN Network Type: Mixed Network (a combination of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, nursing … PBRN Network Type: Mixed Network (a combination of family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, nursing

68. Chlorhexidine Bathing Routine Reduces Infections in Nursing Homes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - News Now Events Chlorhexidine Bathing Routine Reduces Infections in Nursing … Today's Headlines: Chlorhexidine Bathing Routine Reduces Infections in Nursing Homes . … Chlorhexidine Bathing Routine Reduces Infections in Nursing Homes Nursing homes using a chlorhexidine … Researchers found that in nursing homes using the bathing routine, known as decolonization, two residents … These nursing homes also significantly reduced transfers to the hospital for other causes.

69. SOPS Announcements | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture : Oct. 1–21 Nursing homes can submit data from the: SOPS … Nursing Home Survey . … Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes . … AHRQ Post-Webcast Materials for “New SOPS ® Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Nursing Homes … The Database report includes 62 nursing homes and 3,224 staff respondents.

70. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - and Events Education & Training Resources AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing … The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing to help nursing … Pressure ulcers remain a serious problem in nursing homes despite regulatory and market approaches to … Median annual nursing home pressure ulcer prevalence was 7.5 percent in 2009, with associated costs of … 2023 Page originally created April 2016 Internet Citation: AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing

71. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2014 - Step 1: Verify Nursing Home Readiness The facilitator meets with nursing home leadership to confirm … unit, a dietitian, and certified nursing assistants (CNAs). … Nursing leadership may assume this role or delegate the responsibility. … Two team leaders may co-lead project activities; one is a nurse and the second can be from nursing or … The director of nursing (DON) determines his or her level of involvement.

72. NAC Member Biography: Mary Beth Flynn Makic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2024 - Mary Beth Flynn Makic, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., C.C.N.S., FAAN, FNAP, FCNS Professor College of Nursing … of the Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist Program at the University of Colorado College of Nursing … She is well known for her work to advance independent nursing practice based on current best evidence … Makic earned a Ph.D. in nursing at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, a Master of Science … in nursing at University of Maryland, Baltimore, and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from University

73. AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2016 - Setting Long Term Care Resources On-Time AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention to help nursing … Pressure ulcers remain a serious problem in nursing homes despite regulatory and market approaches to … Median annual nursing home pressure ulcer prevalence was 7.5 percent in 2009, with associated costs of … 2016 Page originally created April 2016 Internet Citation: AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing

74. NAC Member Biography: Jeana Reyes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - experienced clinical leader with more than 25 years of healthcare industry experience in acute care, nursing … Reyes has served as the adjunct nursing faculty for an accredited nursing program at a local state college … She received her master’s degree in nursing with a postgraduate certificate in nursing administration … , and a minor in nursing education, from Thomas Edison University and is nationally board-certified in … critical care nursing, cardiac surgery nursing, and cardiac medicine nursing.

75. Chesapeake Regional Healthcare’s Success in Preventing Falls in Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - The Nursing Quality Specialist advocated for immediate process improvements to ensure the safety of the … In addition, the Nursing Quality Specialist ensured patients’ ability to use the call bell and their … AHRQ’s Tool 3H: Morse Fall Scale assisted the Nursing Quality Specialist when selecting the patients … For 6 months, “Fall Free Friday” audits were completed by the Nursing Quality Specialist every Friday … The Nursing Quality Specialist created awards to celebrate successes in fall prevention noted during

76. Falls | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital, and about 1.3 million residents in nursing … AHRQ’s tools, training, and research on preventing falls in hospitals and nursing homes. … Tools AHRQ's Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Falls Prevention These tools help nursing … The Falls Management Program: A Quality Improvement Initiative for Nursing Facilities This manual … It is designed to assist nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered care and improving

77. Implementation Steps and Timeline - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing (pdf file)
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    January 19, 2017 - Implementation Steps and Timeline - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing … unit, a dietitian, and nursing assistants. … Nursing leadership may assume this role or delegate the responsibility. … The director of nursing determines his or her level of involvement. … They may find it necessary to reeducate nursing assistants to improve report validity.

78. Project ECHO | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - The AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network The AHRQ ECHO National Nursing Home COVID … As of Fall 2020, nearly one-quarter of the known COVID-19 deaths in the United States have been nursing … vulnerable, and their reliance on nursing home staff members put these essential workers at high risk … The Network will provide training and mentorship to as many as 15,000 nursing homes across the country … Nursing home teams that would like to participate may sign-up on the  Project ECHO website .

79. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2023 - Date Published: September 2023 Setting of Care: Ambulatory Care, Hospital Nursing … Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide This guide provides toolkits to help nursing homes optimize … Care On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing This toolkit was developed to provide nursing … Pressure ulcers remain a serious problem in nursing homes despite regulatory and market approaches to … Facilities This toolkit assists nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered

80. SOPS Frequently Asked Questions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2022 - A nursing home is a facility or a special contained area of a facility that has only licensed nursing … A single nursing home location needs at least 10 completed surveys to submit to the SOPS Nursing Home … Can I compare my SOPS Nursing Home Survey results against other nursing homes? … AHRQ established the SOPS Nursing Home Database as a central repository for survey data from the Nursing … Can I compare my nursing home's SOPS Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set results against other nursing