A call to the CMS: Mandate adequate professional nurse staffing in nursing homes

A Kolanowski, TA Cortes, C Mueller… - AJN The American …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
The authors address the association between low RN staffing levels and poor health
outcomes in nursing homes and urge the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services …

Expert nurse response to workforce recommendations made by the coronavirus commission for safety and quality in nursing homes

D Bakerjian, M Boltz, B Bowers, D Gray-Miceli… - Nursing outlook, 2021 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has exposed the longstanding internal problems in nursing homes and the weak
structures and policies that are meant to protect residents. The Centers for Medicare and …

[HTML][HTML] Nursing homes and COVID‐19: We can and should do better

PM Davidson, SL Szanton - Journal of clinical nursing, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The COVID-19 pandemic is providing us with many painful lessons particularly the
vulnerability of individuals living with chronic conditions and the need for preparedness …

Conditions of nursing practice in hospitals and nursing homes before COVID-19: Implications for policy action

R French, LH Aiken, KEF Rosenbaum… - Journal of nursing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated interest in potential policy solutions to
improve working conditions in hospitals and nursing homes. Policy action in the pandemic …

Nurse staffing and coronavirus infections in California nursing homes

C Harrington, L Ross, S Chapman… - Policy, Politics, & …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In the United States, 1.4 million nursing home residents have been severely impacted by the
COVID-19 pandemic with at least 25,923 resident and 449 staff deaths reported from the …

[PDF][PDF] Time to ensure sufficient nursing home staffing and eliminate inequities in care

C Harrington, S Chapman, E Halifax… - J Gerontol Geriatr …, 2021 - irrc.state.pa.us
The overwhelming nursing home resident infection and death rates from the COVID-19
pandemic has led to the question: What policies can best protect nursing home residents …

“It's Not a Sprint, It's a Marathon”: Stages of Managing a Nursing Home Throughout the Pandemic

A Meehan, EA Gadbois, JF Brazier, C Madrigal… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives To qualitatively examine the impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes over the
course of the pandemic from the perspective of nursing home administrators. Design In …

Policies matter! Factors contributing to nursing home outbreaks during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Chapman, C Harrington - Policy, Politics, & Nursing …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Between February 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began and August 2020, the nation
has watched over 5.2 million individuals become infected and over 167,000 deaths …

The advanced practice registered nurse leadership role in nursing homes: leading efforts toward high quality and safe care

D Bakerjian - Nursing Clinics, 2022 - nursing.theclinics.com
This article provides evidence for the critical role of advanced practice registered nurse
(APRN) leadership in the care of older adults living in the nursing home (NH). The older …

Perspectives of certified nursing assistants and administrators on staffing the nursing home frontline during the COVID‐19 pandemic

E Franzosa, W Mak, OR Burack… - Health Services …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To identify best practices to support and grow the frontline nursing home workforce
based on the lived experience of certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and administrators …