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8 Tips to Reduce Staff Stress and Enhance Resiliency

Chronic staffing shortages and heavier workloads can lead to burnout, performance issues, mental health problems, and poor work-life balance. Learn steps to take to support your teams so they come to work recharged and ready to meet your residents’ needs.

7 Ways to Address Frailty

Recognizing and addressing frailty helps residents live longer and leads to better outcomes. Learn how 7 elements of successful frailty management can help you and your staff improve residents’ quality of life.

E-Guide: Navigating Safely Through Fall Risk Calculation

Older adults are more likely to experience falls, including falls that result in serious injury or even death. Learn how fall risk assessment tools can help you identify who’s at risk, take preventative measures, and positively impact resident health and quality of life.

E-Guide: Drug Diversion A-to-Z

Temptation and opportunity make drug diversion a significant risk in long-term care. Learn more about commonly diverted drugs, how to recognize the signs that diversion might be occurring, and steps you can take to prevent it.

E-Guide: Get a Running Start with These Steps to Address Opioid Use Disorder

Opioid use disorder (OUD) remains a significant risk for long-term care residents. In this comprehensive e-guide, learn how to recognize, treat, and prevent OUD.

E-guide: Pharmacogenomics

In this e-guide, learn about pharmacogenomics testing and how it can be used to help optimize medication regimens and guide deprescribing.

E-guide: Alzheimer’s Disease Signs, Stages, Treatment & Support

This e-guide on Alzheimer’s disease brings you the latest information about its symptoms, stages, risk factors, and treatments — plus resources to help — so you can provide the best possible care for residents.

Trauma-Informed Care

CMS implemented the final phase of a trauma-informed care (TIC) provision for LTC facilities three years ago. Despite CMS providing basic definitions, concepts, and principles for facilities to use, there is still confusion on how to manage and document TIC, causing uncertainty for providers and their teams.

Drug Disposal: Safe, Compliant, and Environmentally Sound Destruction of Pharmaceutical Waste

In this eGuide, learn how to dispose of unused pharmaceuticals in a way that is both environmentally sound and compliant with applicable regulations.

Substance Abuse Disorder: A Facility Guide to Compliance

To help facilities comply with CMS Phase 3 guidance on behavioral health, PharMerica and NADONA have partnered to develop a comprehensive compliance guide. Included are tools and resources like care plans, Phase 3 guides, and pathways to help facilities anticipate what surveyors will look for.