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Nursing Home
… new settings, and of course special care. A nursing home is a place dedicated to help with this situation. Sometimes nursing homes can be perceived as mere institutions by society, and even by future residents. Inside, senior citizens are suppose to spend the rest of their lives doing the …
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Nursing Home Administrators' Personality And Nursing Home Quality: Correlations Between The Predictive Index And Cms Ratings
<p>The approximately two million residents in nursing homes are nearly totally dependent on the care they receive from the nursing homes' staff. The quality of care ranges from excellent to substandard, and the goal of this project is to understand how the top administrators' personality is related …
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Calcium Intake of Nursing Home Residents
… was to determine calcium intake of elderly in nursing homes and to describe the factors associated with calcium intake. Orem’s Self-Care Model provided a conceptual framework for this study.<br> The literature review addressed calcium concerns for elderly, calcium concerns for elderly, calcium …
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Determining the need for nursing home beds
Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Transition to Nursing Home of Korean-American Elders
… (KA) elders during the transition to nursing homes in the first month following admission. The three aims of this proposed study were (1) to explore culture specific factors that affect KA elders' perspectives during the transitional period to a nursing home, (2) to identify thoughts …
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Quality, Cost, and Access Issues in Nursing Home Care
… explanation of the observed pattern in the nursing home industry that non-profit institutions serve a lower percentage of Medicaid patients than do for-profit facilities. This paper shows that information disparities regarding quality between providers and consumers fosters an environment in …
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Improving Dental Care to the Elderly in a Nursing Home
… dental care of frail and elderly patients in nursing home facilities. The specific aim is to improve dental care of clients at the San Mateo County nursing home facility by 100% by May, 2015. The methods use in this project was the adaptation and implementation of existing dental/oral health …
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Relationship between nursing home size and their dietetic support effort
<p>Background: While nursing homes in Oklahoma are required to utilize a Registered Dietitian (RD) or Qualified Nutritionist, there are no specifications for minimum utilization. Objectives: Investigate how Oklahoma nursing homes determine RD utilization and whether a relationship exists between …
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Oral education for nursing home staff: minimum data set 3.0
… is based on an educational module presented to nursing home staff addressing assessment criteria of the Minimum Data Set 3.0 (MDS) dental section, a tool used by staff to evaluate residents' overall health. Relationships were tested between educating nursing home staff on the dental section and …
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CNAS' Ratings of Nursing Home Residents' Pain: The Role of Empathy
… persistent pain (Fain et al., 2017). Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are important sources of information about resident pain as provide the majority of residents' hands-on care. Therefore, assessing the accuracy of CNAs' pain assessments and potential influencing factors may provide insight …
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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 within …
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Factors Contributing To Registered Nurse Job Satisfaction In the Nursing Home
… changes in healthcare reimbursement will require nursing homes to admit sicker patients for shorter lengths of stays. To meet the needs of the increased number of chronic patients and those patients with higher acuities, nursing homes will require more skilled, registered nurses. Registered nurses …
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Placing a Parent in the Nursing Home: the Decision-making Experience
… when making the decision to place a parent in a nursing home.
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