Clinical assessments are a central and daily part of every long-term care nurse's job. These resident assessments must cover all your clinical bases or residents' health will suffer, and repercussions will surface during survey time. Worse yet, insufficient or missing assessments can lead to lawsuits that your facility will lose. This guide features everything you need to ensure your assessment and monitoring processes are on track. Resident Assessment and Monitoring for Long-Term Care Breaks down common procedures into easy-to-follow steps and offers valuable information on disease management and quality of life concerns. Written by a long-term care expert specifically for the long-term care setting, Resident Assessment and Monitoring for Long-Term Care provides critical reimbursement and regulatory advice. Author Barbara Acello, MS, RN draws on her more than 30 years of experience to fill this book with helpful and time-tested advice, guidelines, policies, and procedures for resident assessments.

As an independent nurse consultant and educator, Barbara Acello, MS, RN, has worked in long-term care for more than thirty-three years. In addition to owning and operating a school for nursing assistants, she helped to write and develop mandatory state curricula for nurse aides and EMTs. She has also written and/or contributed to approximately 60 textbooks, instructor guides, quick reference guides, and supplemental instructional material for healthcare personnel

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