A recent executive order was announced to change the option nursing home employees are offered in regards to legal proceedings for disputes associated with their place of employment. Staff are no longer required to sign away their rights for a public trial related to sexual harassment and civil rights disputes. The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care said Congress and the White House needed to remove the “harmful and all-too-common inclusion” of arbitration requirements in admissi…

A question is rising amongst lawmakers and nursing home care advocators alike. The question is, where are the nurses? As lawmakers emphasize the nursing in nursing homes, they are left wondering why there was ever a law passed in 1987 to allow nursing homes to reduce registered nurse staffing to just 8 hours a day.

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One state has noticed an increase in the over-prescription of antipsychotic drugs to patients. Families are noticing behavior changes in family members and alerting the nursing home. “We had noticed some behavior issues with him, and we couldn’t pinpoint what was going on because he started sundowning a lot.

A $27.6 million settlement as well as a loss of license were the result of a lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company and a psychiatrist for partnering to over-prescribe and administer the drug clozapine. The drug is used, according to the FDA as a last resort for treating schizophrenia. The doctor had prescribed the drug at one point to 75% of the residents at a nursing home with 400 beds.

A lawsuit is pending against a nursing home for allegedly engaging in a cover-up of sexual assault and battery. The attorney spokesman for the family said, “This mother put her totally disabled daughter in their total care and only asked that she be taken care of, provided for, given the best quality of life she could have.” Instead the 28-year-old daughter was not properly monitored. “There only job was to take care of her, protect her, said the attorney.