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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Skilled Nursing Facility"”.
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The Experiences Of An Occupational Therapist Delivering Occupation-Based Practice At A Skilled Nursing Facility
… in delivering occupation-based practice at a skilled nursing facility in Kentucky. Over a three month period, the subject participated in one email and two face-to-face semi-structured interviews. During these interviews, the researcher and therapist discussed topics such as the therapist's …
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Strategies to Prevent Hospital Transfers in the SNF Environment
… to reduce acute hospital transfers in the skilled nursing facility. The CNL lead the interdisciplinary team and was resource or point of contact for this project. The CNL educated nurses to utilize (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) INTERACT™ Early Warning Tool. Roger’s …
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Organizational Complexity, Plan Adequacy, and Nursing Home Resiliency: A Contingency Perspective
… resiliency. The unit of analysis, the skilled nursing facility proved vulnerable, therefore justifying the need for a written emergency management plan and affiliation with a disaster network. The main purpose of this research was to verify the significance of emergency management plans …
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Prediction of Discharge Destination from Initial Physical Therapy Assessment using the Physical Assessment Key (PAK)
… home independent, home with physical therapy, skilled nursing facility, or rehabilitation. A significant difference was found in the initial PAK score means of those discharged to rehabilitation and those discharged to the other three discharge destinations. The initial PAK score was the most …
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Implementing Augmentative Communication for Aphasic Patients in Convalescent Facilities
… developed for presentation to staff members of a skilled nursing facility. The purpose was to determine whether the program would produce significant learning to justify its use in similar facilities to bridge the communication gap between nonspeaking/nonwriting aphasic patients who communicate …
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Discharge Outcomes : An Evaluation of a Functional Index of Physical Assistance
… to inpatient rehabilitation (Rehab) or skilled nursing facility (SNF). Diagnosis was most significant when comparing those discharged home independently versus home with physical therapy and also those discharged to Rehab versus SNF. Function was found to be a consistent variable for …
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Role of the consultant dietitian
… disagreement/agreement (role consensus) between skilled nursing facility administrators and consultant dietitians on the activities, responsibilities, and guilities which compose the ideal role (role expectations) of the consultant dietitian; (b) the extent to which administrators and consultant …
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Home Telehealth in Heat Failure Patients
… to patients who received usual home care nursing services.</p> <p>Results: No major differences in baseline socio-demographics were found between the two groups. While receiving home health care services, the non-TH patients had a 21% all-cause hospital re-admission rate, compared to the …
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Connections: interventions to promote socialization and engagement among people with dementia
… daily interventions to be provided in a skilled nursing facility over the course of six weeks for residents with mild to moderate dementia. The Connections program is guided by a person-centered care philosophy and utilizes an evidence-based approach. Connections is designed to address …
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Translated Evidence-Based Mental Health Toolkit for Skilled Nursing Facilities
… illness (SMI) receive long term care (LTC) in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) (Grabowski, Aschbrenner, Feng, & Mor, 2009). Residents who live in SNFs may experience limited access to meaningful occupations. The SNFs’ institutionalized structure may perpetuate a lack of autonomy and stigma for …
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Enhancing The Assessment Of Suicidal Ideation In The Long-Term Care Environment: A Quality Improvement Project
… inservice for frontline clinical staff at a skilled nursing facility in Connecticut. The inservice integrated use of an adapted suicide assessment algorithm and a suicide screening tool, the P4 Screener. A SAMHSA toolkit was utilized as a guide for inservice creation. After a three-person …
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The impact of service-learning on academics related to neurogenic communication disorders
… on the needs of the site, at a selected skilled nursing facility for two hours per week over ten weeks for a total of 20 hours of service. The mean assignment grades, exam grades, and total course grades were compared between the SL and non-SL groups to evaluate whether SL had a positive …
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Medicaid and the Life Course: An Intersectional Mixed-Methods Approach
… of Medicaid enrollment among residents of a skilled nursing facility (SNF). In interviews with caregivers and staff at the Department of Social Services (DSS) in a large, urban county in North Carolina, I find that family members are often applying their aging relatives, and that these …
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Readmission Factors of Patients with Type II Diabetes
… and race), hospital discharge disposition (home, skilled nursing facility, or rehabilitation center), clinical biomarker (Hemoglobin A1C), diabetes medications (oral, insulin, or both), disease management (whether the patient received Diabetes Self-Management Education [DSME] or was seen by an …
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Effects of an Exercise Program on Mentally Impaired Older Adults in a Long-Term Care Facility
… were volunteers who resided in a long-term care skilled nursing facility (SNF). Group composition was 7 males, mean age 83.29 and 17 females, mean age 88.71; mental and physical function levels varied from supervised to total dependence of care. Six variables were tested: right and left shoulder …
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