The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a screening tool developed by the Geriatrics Division of Saint Louis University. The RGA includes assessment of frailty, nutrition, loss of muscle mass ...

The director of the national nursing research unit has called into question the worth of clinical risk assessment tools routinely relied on by thousands of frontline nurses. Risk assessment tools, ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released two new tools for use in healthcare facilities, the Sepsis Prevention Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes (SPAT) and the Targeted Assessment for ...

Anyone working in skilled nursing today understands how much is being asked of providers. Staffing challenges, reimbursement ...

Long-term use of sustained-release cytarabine for symptomatic management and treatment of meningeosis neoplastica. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new fracture risk assessment tool for older adults living in a nursing home may be effective for predicting ...

VOL: 100, ISSUE: 22, PAGE NO: 38 Lawrence Mountford, BA, RMN, DipN, is community psychiatric Nurse, Hull and East Riding Community Health Care Trust Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ ...