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Dr. Heidi Keeler attends the 2018 Nebraska Healthcare Quality Forum.
Dr. Heidi Keeler, lead faculty of Gero Nurse Prep and the director of Continuing Nursing Education at the UNMC College of Nursing, recently attended the 2018 Nebraska Healthcare Quality Forum where she shared a few of CNE’s educational offerings.
Please check this website, www.unmc.edu/nursing/cne, for upcoming live and free online programs
Competent RNs: The Foundation of a Successful Geriatric Caregiving Team.
AHCA/NCAL Gero Nurse Prep does much more than just prepare RNs to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) board certification exam in gerontological nursing. It increases RNs’ knowledge of gerontological nursing practice. Gero Nurse Prep students see a dramatic 24 percent average increase on their pre- and post course test scores. Read more at:
http://www.longtermcareleader.com/2018/04/competent-rns-are-foundation-of.html
Gero Nurse Prep is now on sale! Use promo code QUALITY18 (all caps) at time of registration and save $100 on each enrollment.
National Nurses Week 2017
Celebrate National Nurses Week, May 6-12.
The American Nurses Association has designated 2017 as the “Year of the Healthy Nurse.” Join them during National Nurses Week, May 6–12, as they explore this year’s theme, “Nursing: the Balance of Mind, Body, and Spirit.” It’s all about celebrating nurses like you who lead the charge for health and wellness.
http://www.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/National-Nurses-Week-2017
Gero Nurse Prep Sale Ends Soon!
Nursing Centers with RNs certified in gerontological nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) are twice as likely to receive a 5-Star rating from CMS.
Combination Pre-School and Nursing Home.
Amazing things happen at this preschool inside a nursing home.
November 30th is the final day to use promo code STARS2016
Medication Reconciliation Makes Transitions Safer
A thoughtfully designed and striclty followed review process can spare patients avoidable hospital readmissions.
Federal regulators crack down on social media abuse in nursing homes
Sen. Chuck Grassley: “We need to prevent it, and we need to punish it when it happens.”
https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/09/federal-regulators-crack-down-social-media-abuse-nursing-homes/
Skin Failure: A New Diagnosis
Skin is the largest organ of the human body; yet, while people talk about “kidney failure” or “heart failure,” practitioners or others seldom refer to “skin failure.”
According to Jeffrey Levine, MD, AGSF, CMD, CWSP, a New York-based physician and frequent speaker and author on wound care, “skin failure should be considered as a diagnosis in advanced chronic illness as well as in situations when patients are approaching death.” This is consistent with the recognition that many chronic illnesses worsen over time and increase the likelihood of comorbidities and decreased functional status.
Source – http://www.providermagazine.com/news/Pages/2016/0716/Skin-Failure-A-New-Diagnosis.aspx