- Patient Centered, Interdisciplinary, and Cost-Effective: Can We Do It All?
- Clopidogrel: With or Without a Proton Pump Inhibitor?
- Avoiding Citations for Failure to Manage Pain: CMS Updates F-309 Guidance
- Implementing Geriatric Care Models: What Are We Waiting For?
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
- A Study Guide for the Evidence-Based Approach to Fall Assessment and Management
- GAPNA Impacting Geriatric Care through Alliances
- Continuing Education (Contact Hour) Program Approval
- Aggressive Behavior of Nursing Home Residents Toward Caregivers: A Systematic Literat
- Identifying Women with Low Bone Mass: A Systematic Review of Screening Tools
- Improving Dementia Care in Assisted Living Residences: Addressing Staff Reactions to
- Establishing a Therapeutic Hospital Environment: The*Patient Perspective
- An Evidence-Based Review of Infectious Diseases
- ANCC Update: Alternative Eligibility for the Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Exam
- Save the Date October 3, 2009 AALNA 5th Annual Conference Chicago, Illinois
- Private Duty Attendants in Assisted Living
- Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Facility Contracts: Down, But Not Necessarily Out
- Avoiding Potential Pitfalls of Generic Substitution
- Facilitating Aerobic Exercise Training in Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease
- Helping Nursing Homes “At Risk” for Quality Problems: A Statewide Evaluation
- Hypersexuality among Cognitively Impaired Older Adults
- Nurses Working Together to Improve Care and Increase and Expand Our Workforce
- Central Nervous System Medication Changes and Falls in Nursing Home Residents
- Managing Pain Has Become a Pain!
- Protecting Your Medicare Billing Privileges—Are You at Risk for Lost Revenue?
- Nursing Care of the Aging Foot
- Establishing a Therapeutic Hospital Environment: The Nurses' Perspective
- Expanding the Gerontological Nursing Role in Guided Care
- Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations in Nursing Could Save $1 Billion Annually—So Why
- Message from the National Executive Director
- Dental Hygiene Education for Nursing Staff
- Norovirus Outbreak Management in a Resident-Directed Care Environment
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- Editorial Board
- Information for Readers
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- Nurses Role in Culture Change … So What Is New?
- A Global Vision for Care of Older Adults: Groundbreaking Statement Is Signed by 32 Sp
- In-Depth Assessment of the Nutritional Status of Korean American Elderly
- Spiritual Well-Being, Spiritual Practices, and Depressive Symptoms among Elderly Pati
- Is That Case of Asthma Really COPD, and Does the Diagnosis Matter?
- Bed Rails—Be Vigilant, but Know the Rules and Guidelines
- Infection Control Practices in Assisted Living Communities
- “Nothing Can Be Done”—A Reply to Thoughtless Prognostic Declarations
- Empirically Based Treatments for Family Caregiver Distress: What*Works and Where Do W
- Standard Service Codes in Nursing Homes
- Voice of Assisted Living Nursing
- Humor as a Coping Strategy for Adult-Child Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer's
- Updates on Health Policy Activities: Geriatric Nursing Input and Involvement
- Information for Readers
- An Exploration of Social Connectedness as Perceived by Older Adults in a Long-Term Ca
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- Emerging Technologies to Enhance the Safety of Older People in Their Homes
- The Benefits to Working for Retired RNs
- Antithrombosis Management in Community-Dwelling Elderly: Improving Safety
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- Information for Readers
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- It Is All About Relationships
- Evaluating the Relationship Between Inattention and Impulsivity-Related Falls in Hosp
- More than a Prescriber: Gerontological Nurse Practitioners' Perspectives on Prescribi
- Trick or TREAT? More Condemning Evidence Against ESAs
- NGNA Section
- GAPNA Anticipates Reform with Optimism
- AALNA Nurses Go to Chicago: New Directions in Outstanding Resident Care
- Legislative/Legal Update—What's New in Washington for Geriatric Nursing Care
- Storytelling
- Individualized Care for Frail Older Adults: Challenges for Health Care Reform in Acut
- Perceived Benefits of Meditative Movement in Older Adults
- Medication Chart Orders and the DEA: Long–Term Care Facility Residents Caught in the
- Pain Management and the U.S. Department of Justice
- Evolution of a Web Presence: NICHE Launches New Web Site to Meet the Quality Imperati
- The POLST: Advocating for Assisted Living Residents' End-of-Life Wishes
- GAPNA Health Affairs Update March 2010
- Diabetes in African Americans: The Critical Importance of Cognitive Assessment
- An Electronic Geriatric Specialist Workforce: Is It a Viable*Option?
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Dietary Supplement Interactions with Medicati
- Satisfaction with Assisted Living: The Unexplored Role of Physical Activity
- Nurse Identified Hospital to Home Medication Discrepancies: Implications for Improvin
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- Information for Readers
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- The Difference Nurses Are Making to Improve Quality of Care to Older Adults through t
- The Impact of Worker Health on Long Term Care: Implications for Nursing Managers
- SPEACS-2: Intensive Care Unit “Communication Rounds” with Speech Language Pathology
- Age-Related Differences in*Perception of Quality of*Discharge Teaching and Readiness
- Important Rule Affecting Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists Relating
- Medication Adherence is a Partnership, Medication Compliance is Not
- Geriatric Syndromes in Practice: Delirium is Not the Only Thing
- WANTED: NGNA Seeks Visionary, Innovative and Futuristic Gerontological Nurse Leaders
- GAPNA: Coming Together: Joining with Others
- AALNA News, Notes, and Updates
- Another in a Continuing Series of Articles Highlighting Geriatric Care Innovations De
- Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Clinical Pearls for Commonly Used Dietary Su
- Dissemination and Benefits of a Replicable Tai Chi and Qigong Program for Older Adult
- Sleep in Hospitalized Elders: A*Pilot Study
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- Editorial Board
- Information for Readers
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- Health Care Reform: What Does It Mean for Older Adults?
- Formal Caregiver Burden in*Dementia: Impact of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms
- Exploration of Informal Caregiving Following Hip Fracture
- Does Your Documentation Support Payment?
- Iatrogenesis, Frailty, and Geriatric Syndromes
- Nurses’ Behavior in the Clinical Setting: The Good, the Bad and the Really Ugly
- Frailty: An Indication for Palliative Care
- GAPNA Website Offers Free Continuing Education Through an Online Virtual Webinar and
- Person-Centered Care: At the Core of Assisted Living
- Another in a Continuing Series of Articles Highlighting Geriatric Care Innovations De
- Reducing Methotrexate Errors
- The Effect of the Addition of Osteoporosis Education to a Bone Health Screening Progr
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- The Peer Review Process: Some Gentle Reminders for Us All
- Effectiveness of Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation for Improving Depress
- Current Evidence Regarding Models of Acute Care for Hospitalized Geriatric Patients
- Update on Blood Glucose Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities
- An Assisted Living Community Environment That Optimizes Function: Housing Enabler Ass
- Practice Change and Culture Change in Implementing Geriatric Care Initiatives
- Bridging the Digital Divide for Urban Seniors: Community Partnership
- Coming Together: A Message from*the GAPNA President, Pat*Kappas-Larson
- CPR in Assisted Living: Not as Simple as it Seems
- Another in a Continuing Series of Articles Highlighting Geriatric Care Innovations De
- Opportunity to Optimize Management of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
- A Survey of Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Oral Hygiene Among Staff at a Geriatric
- Evaluation of Intervention Research in Weight Reduction in Post Menopausal Women
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- Enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act in Long-Term Care: Is There a Silver Lin
- An Internet-Based Multimedia Education Prototype to Enhance Late-Stage Dementia Care:
- The Experience of Older Men Living Alone
- Drug Enforcement Administration Guidance on Use of Long-Term Care Facility Staff as A
- Little Known but Powerful Approach to Applied Research: Community-Based Participatory
- Not Preventing Falls—Promoting Function
- Knowledge and Attitudes of Health Care Workers Regarding MOLST (Medical Orders for Li
- Comments Regarding “Collaborative and Supervising Relationships between Attending Phy
- Correction
- Higher Acuity in Assisted Living is Here to Stay
- NICHE Advocates for Geriatrics as a Hospital Specialty
- Quetiapine Not Quiet-a-pine—Not a Sleeper
- Perceptions of Physical Restraints Use in the Elderly Among Registered Nurses and Nur
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- The Spirit of Collaboration and Supervision
- Collaborative and Supervisory Relationships Between Attending Physicians and Advanced
- The Impact of Informal Caregivers on Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults Receiving
- Ways to Optimize Understanding Health Related Information: The Patients’ Perspective
- The ADA Focus on Diabetes 2011
- Providers Should Prepare for New Medicare Wellness Examination Benefit
- Person-Centered Care: Changing with the Times
- Hospitalized Injured Older Adults: A 21st-Century Challenge
- NGNA Award Recipient Abstracts
- Hospice Face-to-Face Visit for Recertification: Condition of Coverage for Medicare Pa
- Resident Care Decisions in Assisted Living: Who is in Charge?
- Reminiscences of Things Past: Innovative Intergenerational Project Builds Skills and
- Mindfulness Meditation to Improve Care Quality and Quality of Life in Long-Term Care
- Enhancing Functional Balance and Mobility Among Older People Living in Long-Term Care
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- One Stop Shopping For Pain
- Geriatric Nursing’s Acknowledgment to Reviewers
- Gentian Violet 1% Solution in the Treatment of Wounds in the Geriatric Patient: A Ret
- Retired RNs: Perceptions of Volunteering
- Anticoagulant Polypharmacy
- Incentive Payments—Extra Payments for Medicare Services
- Falls: Why They Matter and What You Can Do
- Recognizing and Referring Suspected Elder Mistreatment
- Implementing Transformational Leadership in Long-Term Care
- Message from GAPNA’s President: Strategic Plan for the Future and Addressing the Chan
- AALNA Represents Assisted Living Nurses at U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Ass
- Who Loves You, Baby Boomer? Senior Emergency Departments Deliver Best Care for Older
- Advancing Nursing Home Practice: The International Association of Geriatrics and Gero
- The Reliability and Preliminary Validity of Game-Based Fall Risk Assessment in Commun
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- Geriatrics: Why Do We Do It?
- Measurement of Workplace Empowerment Across Caregivers
- Findings from a Pilot Investigation of the Effectiveness of a Snoezelen Room in Resid
- Determinants of Frequency, Duration, and Continuity of Home Walking in Patients with
- The Challenge of Discontinuing Proton Pump Inhibitors
- New Regulation Modifies Civil Money Penalties Process for Nursing Facilities
- The Affordable Care Act: Positive Impact for Quality Improvement
- Neurocognitive Problems in Critically Ill Older Adults: The Importance of History
- Chaos and Uncertainty: The Post-Caregiving Transition
- An Opportunity to Make a Difference
- Assisted Living Nursing Scope of Practice
- The View from the Front Line
- Patient Transfer Forms Enhance Key Information Between Nursing Homes and Emergency De
- Digoxin Therapy in the Elderly: Pharmacokinetic Considerations in Nursing
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- Geriatric Trauma and the Impact of Nursing Care
- Current Approaches to Fall Risk Assessment in Nursing Homes
- Frail Older Persons' Experiences of Interinstitutional Relocation
- Dry Skin in Older Adults
- Department of Labor Guidance on Teenager Assistance in Use of Patient Power Lifts
- Visceral Prescription
- Patient- and Family-Centered Care—Is There Individualized Care Here?
- Person–Environment Fit and Functioning Among Older Adults in a Long-Term Care Setting
- 2011 Health Affairs Scholarship
- Assisted Living Nurse Competencies
- Innovation on Display: Posters and Videos Highlight Innovations in Care of Older Adul
- Focus on Statin Safety Concerns
- A Case Study Using the Beers List Criteria to Compare Prescribing by Family Practitio
- Older Adults and HIV and STI Screening: The Patient Perspective
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- Permission to Say “NO!”
- The Management of Loneliness in Aged Care Residents: An Important Therapeutic Target
- An Exploratory Investigation Using Appreciative Inquiry to Promote Nursing Oral Care
- Polypharmacy: When Is Enough, Enough?
- Home Health and Hospice Face-to-Face Encounter Visits
- Can Only Focusing on Physical Health Make You Sick?
- Hospitalized Patients with Dementia: The Dilemma of Managing Agitation
- Faith Community Nurses: Implementing Healthy People Standards to Promote the Health o
- GAPNA 30th Conference: Improving Lives of Older Adults—Practice & Policy
- Assisted Living Nurses Gather for 7th Annual National Conference
- NICHE Resets Knowledge Center for Greater Access to Tools, Resources and Information
- Profile of Nursing Home Residents with Dementia Who Require Assistance with Mouth Car
- Advanced Practice Nurses' Perspectives on the Use of Health Optimization Strategies f
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- Believing Is the First Step to Achieving
- Culture-Change Training: Nursing Facility Staff Perceptions of Culture Change
- Depression and Sleep Disturbance in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disea
- Practice Change in Long-Term Care Facilities in Ontario: Views of Managers and Staff
- What’s New for 2012
- Infectious Disease in Assisted Living: Controlling the Enemy Is in Our Hands!
- Gotcha! Don’t Let Ageism Sneak into Your Practice