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Restraints and Education Needs Assessment

and arranging transportation; and ensuring that physician orders for residents are met and followed. Beyond these duties ar...

Reform and Ethics As They Relate to Nursing Home Care

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

Difficult Decision Making

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

Nursing Home Admissions' Perception versus Reality

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

Shannondale Nursing Home and Its Historical Development

been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...

Mental Health Industry Audit

significant changes to the existing system but have not yet covered too much ground where modifications are concerned. This is pa...

Nursing Homes and Abuse of the Elderly

over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...

Review of an Article on Nursing Home Residents and Hospitalization

field of nursing and in particular for nursing home facilities. Valid data could put pressure on nursing homes to hire an adequate...

Elderly Abuse in Nursing Homes and Detection

In five pages detecting and preventing elderly abuse in nursing homes are considered in a top down healthcare model examination. ...

Nursing Homes and Safety Programs

In twenty eight pages this paper discusses nursing homes and the importance of safety programs with OSHA's role, health considerat...

Nursing Homes and Senior Citizen Infections

In eight pages this research paper discusses the serious problem of controlling senior citizen infection in a nursing home setting...

Hospital and Home Nursing

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares hospital and home nursing in terms of role similarities and differences. Eleven ...

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' Resistance

In seven pages this paper discusses how meeting JCAHO accreditation can be sabotaged by the resistance of staff in a narrative fro...

Nursing Home Conflict and Resolution

44% involved strains and sprains, with most involving the back (Fragala 22). Of that number 10.5% of back injuries experienced in...

Change and Nursing Homes

In ten pages this paper discusses the growing nursing home industry and the need for planning change. Eleven sources are cited in...

Nursing Home Care That is Client Centered

dependency upon others for assisted daily living skills, and institutional care. Rockwood (1997) defined frail elderly people as t...

Nursing Home Environment and Pet Therapy Programs

In five pages this paper examines the benefits of pet therapy in a nursing home setting in terms of memory stimulation and positiv...

Management Practices in Nursing Homes

In twenty pages this research paper discusses management practices as they pertain to nursing homes in a consideration of ideologi...

Nursing Home Industry and Patient Care Costs Determination

In six pages this research paper examines the nursing home industry and considers the increasing costs of patient care due to an e...

Nursing Home Industry and the Effects of 1935's Social Security Act

Social Security Act of 1935. In simplest terms, the Social Security Act of 1935 designated nearly $50 million of federal funds to...

Carobeth Laird's Limbo A Memoir About Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor

This book regarding the degrading treatment of senior citizens in nursing homes is reviewed in five pages. There are no other sou...

Abuse of Senior Citizens and Care in Nursing Homes

In seven pages this paper discusses the appalling accusations of abuse of senior citizens in nursing homes in a consideration of v...

Long Term Nursing Home Care

In eight pages this paper discusses nursing homes for long term care in a consideration of choices, features, and transitional rec...

Nursing Home Industry Employee Issues

In five pages this paper considers issues of incompetence and incapacitation as they relate to nursing home industry workers in a ...

Orthopaedic Nursing Journal Article Reviewed

In ten pages a tutorial review on the article 'Discharge Teaching Work Strategies for Patients and Families for Care in the Home'...

Nursing Home Care for Dementia Patients: Speaker Notes:

This paper consists of the speaker notes for a PowerPoint presentation that pertains to the a student's volunteer experience. The ...

A Qualitative Study, Fall Prevention

This paper summarizes and analyzes a qualitative Norwegian study that examined the experiences of home care nurses in regards to f...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Home Nursing Care Accreditation, Regulation and Licensing

for competency, the use do surveys to assess standards and the evaluation of clients as well as the provision of a complaints hotl...