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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"Nursing homes"”.
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Disaster Preparedness for Nursing Homes
… Frequently, these vulnerable elderly reside in nursing homes. Nursing homes are often overlooked as a health resource, and are usually not incorporated into their community’s disaster plans. However, it is crucial that nursing homes are thoroughly prepared not only to care for their residents, …
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Ergonomics Programs In Kentucky's Nursing Homes
<p>This study sought to determine how many nursing homes had implemented ergonomics programs, and how closely these programs followed the NIOSH/OSHA model. It also sought to investigate relationships that might exist between ergonomics programs and MSD rates occurring among direct care workers …
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Equilibrium Quality Choices in Nursing Homes
… examines the resulting equilibrium quality for nursing homes from changes in the Medicaid reimbursement rate. The first chapter summarizes and evaluates the current literature on nursing homes. The second chapter builds upon the model in the present literature by allowing Medicaid patients to …
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Economic Determinants Of Quality Of Care In Nursing Homes
<p>ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF QUALITY OF CARE IN NURSING HOMES</p> <p>This dissertation examines the factors that will affect nursing home quality of care using several national data sources on market regulation, county demographic characteristics, market structural and the characteristics of …
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Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of Hospice Care in Nursing Homes
… a third of the deaths of older adults occur in nursing homes (US Census Bureau, 2010). These statistics indicate that nursing homes are vitally important in providing end-of-life care to our oldest frail adults in their final days. Hospice care is seen as the gold standard of end-of-life care in …
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Optimizing Antipsychotic Use across Nursing Homes: Implications for Dementia Care
… initiation of antipsychotics among short-stay nursing home residents with dementia; (2) evaluate the relationship of nursing home level initiation of antipsychotics with all-cause hospitalization and mortality; and (3) examine individual and contextual factors associated with discontinuation of …
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Comparison of diabetes-related guidelines and practice in nursing homes
Long-term care of elderly with diabetes in nursing homes has been a national issue. Guidelines focusing on long-term care of elderly with diabetes in nursing homes have been few, and the practice in nursing homes has faced a lot of challenges. This study was to evaluate the similarities and …
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An exploration of workforce diversity management principles & practices in nursing homes
… to workforce diversity (WD) specifically in nursing homes. However, there is a need to understand how WD manifests in nursing homes because nursing homes have several distinct characteristics that are unlike other organizations. The study sought to explore WD among nursing homes. The study …
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Fallers in South Dakota Nursing Homes as Represented on the MDS+
… study explored the profile of South Dakota nursing home residents who experience falls by using data from the MDS+ assessment data base. A number of variables were selected from the MDS+ based on the fall profile in the literature review. The variables were analyzed in relation to three …
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Coercion in Icelandic nursing homes : a correlational study of physical restraint use
Notkun líkamsfjötra á hjúkrunarheimilum er umdeild og flestir rannsóknarmenn hafa komist að þeirri niðurstöðu að best væri að draga úr notkun þeirra eða stöðva algjörlega. Samkvæmt fyrri rannsóknum er notkun fjötra óalgeng á Íslandi í samanburði við önnur lönd (Ljunggren et al., 1997). Notkun …
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Factors Related to Registered Nurse Retention In Nursing Homes: A National Perspective
… turnover and retention have been concerns of nursing home facilities for many years, retention strategies are implemented without evidence of their effectiveness in the long-term care sector. Despite increasing attention to nursing home staff turnover, little is known about the association of …
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A Descriptive Study of Farmers and Ranchers Entering South Dakota Nursing Homes
… population in South Dakota that entered a nursing home during 1990-1995. Data collection included the use of the South Dakota Minimum Data Set Plus nursing home resident assessment and care screening tool. The sample consisted of 1.446 farmers and 157 ranchers. Descriptive analysis was …
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Conscious patients with severe chronic acquired brain injury in Dutch nursing homes
Contains fulltext : 236655.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Elder abuse in nursing homes: The impact of dementia/special care units
… called dementia units are protected areas in a nursing home that are specially designed for dementia/Alzheimer patients. This thesis reviewed how a special care unit in a nursing home affect the number and severity of deficiencies reported to Medicare. The data was collected from Medicare’s …
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A medicaid resident assessment-based statewide analysis of intermediate care nursing homes
… what is "very good" (and "very bad") in nursing home quality. The model expanded on the traditional narrow image of nursing home quality of care, and specified four major dimensions of this broader view of quality. The dimensions (staff intervention, nutrition/food service, physical …
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A New Design For the Support of Collaborative Care Work in Nursing Homes
Nursing homes are complex healthcare settings that take care of older adults with sever cognitive and physical impairments. Given the conditions of the patients, nursing homes can be considered end-of-life contexts. There, the care work that aim to mitigate and treat the conditions of the patients …
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