Consistent Staffing Assignments

I have been fortunate to work with several small assisted living facilities that have experienced less direct care staff attrition compared with many post-acute and long-term care communities. Recently, one of the assisted living communities hired a new facility director, registered nurse, and several nursing assistants to replace staff who had retired or moved on to other opportunities. An experienced but newly hired registered nurse asked me to prescribe as-needed lorazepam for a resident living with dementia, who had been stable during my visit two weeks earlier.