<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4JKLrP_1AjaLjmx00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4JKLrP_1AjaLjmx00" width="1279" height="1620" ></figure>At the Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, we treat our patients like family. As the head of the nursing home, I take our shared mission as my personal responsibility: to improve our clients’ quality of life, to heal and comfort them, to provide them with the medical care they deserve. The Parker Jewish Institute has been a bedrock of the New York City and Long Island communities for years, and I am proud each and every day to lead this incredible organization.While we are incredibly proud of the Parker Jewish Institute for Health and Rehabilitation, the place I have devoted my career to, we also face a significant struggle with staffing. Our nurses are bogged down in basic tasks that are a waste of their advanced skill set, such as administering basic medications. Our nurses are the best of the best. But current state laws require that nurses administer basic medications, which hinder their ability to serve clients in other ways. Often, it means they spend less time addressing higher level and critical resident needs including assessment of changes in resident condition, health education and counseling, communicating with physicians, and staff supervision.New York is an outlier. Thirty-eight states are getting nurses back to the bedside by allowing certified medication aides to administer basic medications in nursing homes. Our state does not — even though assisted living facilities across the state allow for them. This does nothing to preserve quality of care for our clients.Fortunately, Gov. Hochul has put forth a proposal to save nurses’ valuable time by allowing certified nursing assistants in nursing homes like the Parker Jewish Institute to get additional training, become certified medication aides, and give basic medications to residents. This proposal, which is part of a broader suite of reforms to ease the healthcare staffing and recruitment crisis, will save nurses’ time, which will allow them to focus on improving the quality of care for our residents, and I urge the Legislature to include it in the final budget.The proposal includes another silver lining. These essential workers do so much of the essential day-to-day work in nursing homes but often get burned out, a trend that accelerated during the Covid pandemic. Giving them a real opportunity to climb the career ladder would increase career satisfaction and reduce turnover. The governor’s proposals are a win-win.I am not alone — the New York State Health Facilities Association, which represents over 400 skilled nursing providers and adult care and assisted living communities across New York State, agrees. Nursing homes need this flexibility, patients will get higher quality of care and attention, and our essential workforce will have additional chances for career advancement. It’s a win win — let’s let nurses nurse!Michael Rosenblut is President and CEO of the Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation in New Hyde Park.</div></body>

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At the Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, we treat our patients like family. As the head of the nursing home, I take our shared mission as my personal responsibility: to improve our clients’ quality of life, to heal and comfort them, to provide them with the medical care they deserve. The Parker Jewish Institute has been a bedrock of the New York City and Long Island communities for years, and I am proud each and every day to lead this incredible organization.

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At the Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation, we treat our patients like family. As the head of the nursing home, I take our shared mi

Pass reforms to let nurses focus on nursing

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