Evaluating Antibiotic Use in a Veterans Affairs Skilled Nursing Facility.

To examine antibiotic use in long-term care residents at a VA skilled nursing facility. Quality improvement project. Long-term care residents admitted to the Community Living Center of a Midwestern VA medical center.

There's a New Sheriff in Town: When Enterprise IT Takes Over Imaging IT.

The consolidation of information technology (IT) teams from individual facilities to an enterprise-wide reporting structure and the transition of IT staff from operating within a diagnostic imaging department, such as Radiology, to an enterprise IT group is common. The plan to optimize this workforce can have undesirable and unintended consequences, if not done correctly. For those organizations seeking to optimize their workforce to deliver the best possible IT services, including to areas that produce and use medical imaging, this can be an exercise of balancing specialized knowledge and centralized staffing capacity planning.

Self-Medication Management in a Rehabilitation Setting: A Case Study.

Skilled nursing facilities are beginning to introduce Self-Medication Programs (SMP), in which patients meet with a staff member and learn how to manage their own medications throughout their rehabilitation stay. This program allows for patients to keep their medications in their room and take them on their own without direct nursing administration. In the process, it is the goal for patients to regain independence for their medical care prior to discharge from a skilled nursing facility with an outcome of increased adherence and medication knowledge.

impact of Pharmacy-Directed Medication Management for Patients Experiencing Falls in a Veterans Affairs Community Living Center.

To analyze medication interventions prior to and following implementation of the Pharmacy Medication Related Falls Risk Assessment consult service in an older adult population. Retrospective chart review. This study involved patients admitted to the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center's (VAMC) Community Living Center (CLC), an institutional practice setting.