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Although every patient with dementia has different symptoms and behaviors, and each is at a different stage of the disease, there are some techniques that home health clinicians and aides can use to make the home care visit go more smoothly...
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Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon may never have found the fountain of youth, but scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered a way to help prevent aging and disease by triggering a transcription factor, the CREB (cAMP response element binding)-binding protein (CRP), that controls the activity of genes that regulate cellular function.
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A team of 23 nurses is strategically placed at 50 community sites, including churches, schools, low-income housing projects, homeless shelters, food pantries, and health resource centers. Their role encompasses health promotion, disease prevention, early detection, and disease management...
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Imagine the perfect respirator for health care workers: They wouldn't mind wearing it for an entire shift. They wouldn't have any trouble communicating with each other or with patients. Yet it would protect them from infectious diseases, and it wouldn't cost too much.
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Compared with carcinogenic chemicals and infectious diseases, workplace bullying may seem like more of an annoyance than a health risk.
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You can't just mandate a civil workplace. You have to build one.
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The Joint Commission's Leadership standard (LD.03.01.01) includes two elements of performance related to intimidation and bullying:
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Almost 10 years after the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act created a legal mandate for safer sharps, health care workers still are being stuck with convention devices.
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Call it the perfect storm: Patients with dementia or serious chronic illness being treated in the home. Rising levels of obesity. Aging health care workers. A lack of safety equipment.
