The handwritten doctor’s order was just eight words long, but it solved a problem for Dundee Manor, a nursing home in rural South Carolina struggling to handle a new resident with severe dementia.

Nursing home administrators seeking the figurative canary in the coal mine to predict avoidable hospitalizations of residents might be looking in the wrong place. Investigators with the Regenstrief ...

An essential step of the nursing process is crucial to ensure quality of care. Nurses initiate the nursing diagnosis, which describes a response. BOUNTIFUL, UTAH ...

The actual rate of antipsychotic prescriptions in nursing homes is likely buried under “questionable” diagnoses of schizophrenia, according to a new report by The New York Times. At least one-fifth of ...

Diagnoses for the disorder have soared in the past decade, driven in part by a loophole in regulations. A new study shows the impact has been more severe for Black Americans. By Robert Gebeloff The ...

Dorothy A. Jones, Ed.D., APRN, FAAN, FNI, is the Director of the Marjory Gordon Program for Knowledge Development and Clinical Reasoning at the Connell School of Nursing, where she formerly served as ...