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Why is it that no one aspires to be a good manager these days? While good leaders are essential for galvanizing people and moving organizations forward, managers are not any less important. Managers have to get things done through others.The manager is supposed to plan, organize, coordinate, and control.

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Extended Care Product News - ISSN: 0895-2906 - Volume 94 - Issue 4 - August 2004
Jane Painter, EdD, OTR/L, and Sharon Elliott, MS, OTR/L, BCN, BCG

Creating a Foot Care Program for Your Facility
Arthur B. Stone, DPM

Guidelines for Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in the Diabetic Foot. Part One.
Excerpted and adapted with permission from HMP Communications. Armstrong DG, Attinger CE, Boulton AJM, et al. Guidelines regarding negative pressure wound therapy in the diabetic foot: Results from the Tucson Expert Consensus Conference (TECC) on V.A.C.® therapy. Ost Wound Manag 2004;50(4 Suppl B):3S–27S. Copyright © 2004 HMP Communications.

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Karen Lou Kennedy-Evans, RN, CS, FNP, and Elena Walls, RNC, CRRN

Restoring Quality of Life Through Prompted Voiding Programs
Tracy Kania, RN, BSN, CRRN

Oasis: More Than Just an Assessment
Pamela Teenier, RN, MBA, CHCE, and Ben Peirce, RN, ET, CWOCN

Automated Drug Dispensing Systems: From Tool Box to Touch Screen
Michael J. McGovern

Exploring an Innovation in Incontinence Care Products
Barbara J. Unger, RN

Care and Feeding of the Body’s Largest Organ
Cynthia A. Fleck, RN, BSN, ET, WOCN, CWS, DAPWCA, MBA, and Darlene McCord, PhD

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Constipation—But Were Afraid To Ask
Nancy Collins, PhD, RD, LD/N

Coloplast Introduces New Wider Outlet for Assura® EasiClose™ Pouches

Joint Commission Announces 2005 National Patient Safety Goals for Long-Term Care Organizations

New Bioburden and Infection Control Product

Amino Acid-Based Treatment Nourishes Skin
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Regulatory News
CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDANCE: THE UTILIZATION OF ADJUSTABLE LOW BEDS IN THE PREVENTION OF FALLS AND INJURIOUS FALLS IN LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES
Fall Management Technology: Can a New Generation Position Monitor Assist with F-Tag 323 Compliance?
Using Medications Appropriately
Creating a Culture of Safety
Answering Skin and Wound Questions
Medicare Enhances QIO Program Oversight


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