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Dying in Agony in America’s Nursing Homes – Case Study Poses Ethical...
“Oh, that hurts! You’re hurting me. Please, please, just leave me alone. Please stop.” These were the words of Louis Daly, a friendly, cognitively alert African American man in his late 80s, as nurses...
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Supporting Nurse Practitioners as ‘Priority Primary Care Practitioners’
By Susan McBride, PhD, RN, professor at Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Nursing It’s important for nurses to understand the Medicare and Medicaid incentives to implement...
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To Err is Human . . . To Improve Elusive?
Hospital Bed-2/Timm Suess, via Flickr Peggy McDaniel, BSN, RN, is an infusion practice manager and occasional blogger As a nurse working in the quality improvement and patient safety arena, I’m not...
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Military Metaphors, Unnecessary Admissions, New Blogs, Keeping Secrets
It’s a common scenario: a 90-year-old resident of a U.S. nursing home — call her Ms. B. — has moderately advanced Alzheimer’s disease, congestive heart failure with severe left-ventricular dysfunction,...
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From the Blogs: Negotiating Medicare, Nurses Doing Research, Reader Comments
Medicare is confusing for providers who aren’t yet familiar with it. Here’s a Nursetopia post that draws attention to its complexity and notes the useful video above (it’s one of a series of videos on...
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ECRI Conference Notes: Creating and Replicating ‘Systemness’ within Health...
By Joyce Pulcini, PhD, RN, FAAN, Policy and Politics contributing editor, AJN The ECRI Institute’s 19th annual conference (November 28–29) looked at system-level innovation and quality in the health...
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The ACA and Me: A Dispatch From the Trenches
Argonauta: The Beach at My Back/ oil stick on paper, 2010 by Julianna Paradisi Julianna Paradisi, RN, OCN, writes a monthly post for this blog and works as an infusion nurse in outpatient oncology....
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48 Years of Medicare (and Counting)
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief, and Jacob Molyneux, senior editor Next week marks Medicare’s 48th anniversary. President Lyndon Johnson signed the legislation creating Medicare on July 30, 1965,...
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Nursing Homes Need Nurses
By Amy M. Collins, managing editor Recently, the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) released updated nursing home inspection data, which is “derived from a large file that is split up for...
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What Our Readers Had to Say About RN Staffing in Nursing Homes
By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Earlier this month, AJN’s managing editor Amy Collins wrote a post about nursing homes, basing her discussion on a New York Times article by Paula Span at...
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Never Too Late: One Family Practice’s Shift to EHRs after 50 Years of Paper
Editor’s note: We hear a lot about the stress and lack of time for direct patient care that nurses (and physicians) have experienced with the movement to EMRs or EHRs. We’re in a transitional period,...
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Medicare Turns 50: Familiar Opposition in 1965, Essential and Continuing to...
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Medicare Bill at the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. Former President Harry S. Truman is seated at the table with President Johnson. Photo:...
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