The NYT has another good article up today:
Serious Deficiencies in Nursing Homes Are Often Missed, Report Says
WASHINGTON — Nursing home inspectors routinely overlook or minimize problems that pose a serious, immediate threat to patients, Congressional investigators say in a new report.
In the report, to be issued on Thursday, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, […]

I read an article over at Long Term Living/Nursing Home Magazine and it brought to light some issues CNA’s have with this work.
At first the article didn’t seem to say much new or different; the issues of low pay and poor benefit packages are discussed as being barriers to attracting good staff. We all […]

I made a mortal error the other day. I broke the TOS over at ALLNurses.com.
I discovered they had a CNA forum a couple months ago and have been reading it when I have time. In not one posting over there has anyone ever dared to share a resource with the intended audience. So I decided […]

I found an article about nursing homes and restraint use.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The use of physical restraints on nursing home patients declined nearly 40 percent nationally in recent years as the federal government, states and the nursing home industry placed greater emphasis on eliminating what once was a common practice.
Overall, about 5.9 percent of […]

An post over at the WSJ Health Blog caught my eye:

Nurses are beaten and abused, pinched and punched by deranged and demented patients.
The rough treatment of nurses by some of the people they care for isn’t an issue that gets much attention, but it should, Illinois doc Ben Brewer writes this his WSJ.com column. “Nurses […]

Some have read the article at the NYT about nursing home investors buying up homes, cutting back services to the point of near neglect, and selling the properties for a huge profit. This is an awful horrible thing to read about, but it’s been happening a lot longer than some think. Those of us who […]