Nursing facilities routinely turn away patients seeking post-hospital care if they are taking medicine to treat opioid addiction, a practice that legal experts say violates the Americans with ...

most of the Boards of Nursing have legislation saying you need to report them. What are some of the signs and symptoms that a nurse might be having addiction problems? Signs and symptoms generally ...

Through his first published book, Dr. Warner seamlessly addressed the issues of "Stress, Burnout, and Addiction in the Nursing Profession." According to Dr. Warner, stress, burnout, and addiction ...

Federal investigators could begin cracking down on nursing facilities that refuse admission to patients being treated for opioid addiction, experts are warning. Legal professionals argue the ...

But up until now, the problem in nursing homes remained largely in the shadows. Addiction and long-term care specialists welcomed the state’s initiative, saying few of the roughly 400 nursing ...

School of Nursing. "Addiction is a disease, it's not a moral defect," she says. "But, when I talk about addiction, I still get people asking me, 'Why would they ever do that? That's an awful thing.

The Jewish Home Lifecare nursing home in the Bronx has set out to address those issues. Patients 60 and older who come in for rehab after a hospital stay are also screened for addiction and ...

Through a five-year partnership between the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation and The Hope House, an addiction rehabilitation center in Scottsdale, nursing students and health care ...