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Nurses at Sullivan County Community Hospital Home Health and Hospice in Sullivan, IN, don't spend time looking for a copy of the Braden Scale, documentation checklists, pressure ulcer intervention guidelines, or teaching tools. They just pick up a pre-packaged envelope and go.
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Pressure ulcer education is pretty straightforward for nurses who want up-to-date clinical information that will help them select the best interventions to prevent pressure ulcers and the best treatments to help their patients with ulcers, says Terri Edmiston, RN, MSN, clinical manager for Parkview Hospital Home Health and Hospice in Huntington, IN.
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This is the second of two-part series about best practices in palliative care programs.
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Nursing home residents can benefit from hospice services provided in the nursing home, according to Harvard Medical School researchers.
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Older adults who take several types of psychotropic medications, such as antidepressants or sedatives, appear more likely to experience falls, according to an analysis of previous studies reported in the Nov. 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Immunomodulatory therapy reduces the rate of conversion to generalized myasthenia gravis in seniors with pure ocular myasthenia.
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Neuropathy occurs with a high frequency in patients with end-stage liver disease, but rarely causes disability.
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Fixed dose of IVIg may not be effective in all patients with GBS.
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Two studies have identified a novel inclusion found in a subset of FTLD brains and categorize the clinical entity of the behavioral variant of FTLD, based on anatomical patterns.
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