During this difficult time, it is important that we keep our residents’ nutrition at the top of our lists. If you have a resident that is COVID-19 positive, it may be difficult to provide nutrition the way we normally do. COVID-19 positive residents may be...
COVID-19 provides nursing homes with many challenges to keep residents safe. One huge challenge is malnutrition in residents so what we should be doing, even if a COVID-19 person is not losing and is COVID-19 positive, we need to be doing weekly weights. We need...
We know that COVID-19 is extremely contagious and can be fatal to some people. It is important to take action to keep everyone safe. For example, someone just got their saliva content on their hand then touched a doorknob, they are COVID positive but have...
During the pandemic of COVID-19 many facilities have been delivering meals to residents in disposable containers for isolation patients. Our staff provided this information to help us make those foods for isolation because we have facilities that have had up to 60 people COVID-19 positive....
Keeping residents and staff healthy during the pandemic is important. COVID is spreading at a rapid pace and is extremely contagious. So, what can we do? Well, we definitely need to make sure we have policies and people follow them. If you're supposed to wear...
COVID-19 causes an acute inflammatory state. When the virus goes in through your nose, your hands through your mouth, just know that it causes instantaneous inflammation. It's an infection - it's in a foreign body. Our body starts immediately trying to fight off the infection....