NBC reported on the use of insulin as a murder weapon by nurses. How do you know if it is an honest mistake as opposed to attempted murder? Medical professionals are usually unprepared when having to consider that the lifesaving drug-insulin- can be used as a murder weapon. This is exactly the case, according to
A recent article discussed John Pernorio, a Heritage Hills nursing home resident, who repeatedly “mashed” the call button at his bedside. Pernorio injured his spine in a fall on the job and was unable to walk. Pernorio’s antibiotics made him need to use the restroom more frequently, but he was unable to go on his
McKnight’s reported on a new research that supports an obvious conclusion. Staffing stability is a critical key component to nursing home quality. Researchers have long understood nurse turnover’s influence and impact on nursing home quality, maybe even for two decades. Still, turnover wasn’t added to Care Compare for over a decade after an overall staffing
Unsafe staffing levels and turnover are major problems for the 1.3 million people who live in nursing homes. The Biden administration’s federal rule setting minimum safe standards for staffing would save 13,000 lives a year. The rules will be phased in over the next years. They require a registered nurse to be on site 24 hours
Trump fired a dozen inspectors general who monitored departments for waste, fraud, and abuse, ignoring the law that requires him to give Congress 30 days’ notice and provide good cause for the terminations and specific reasons. Most were Trump’s own appointees from his first term, put in when he purged the inspectors general more gradually
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