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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"toileting"”.
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Fall Prevention Through Proactive Toileting
<p>This paper will summarize the quality improvement falls prevention project conducted by a University of San Francisco Clinical Nurse Leader student. Falls in the hospital setting are an ongoing problem in our healthcare system as they have great physical and financial impacts (Salamon, Victory, …
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Toileting dysfunction in children with sensory under-responsiveness: the sensory modulation bowel and bladder questionnaire (SM-BBQ)
… and valid measure for identifying children with toileting dysfunction related to sensory perception and helping those families to find appropriate services.
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Effects of Functional Communication Training (fact) On the Communicative, Self-Initiated Toileting Behavior for Students with Developmental Disabilities in a School Setting
… the effects of functional communication-based toileting interventions for students with developmental disabilities in a school setting. Furthermore, the currently available toileting interventions for students with disabilities include some undesirable procedures such as the use of punishment, …
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An Evaluation of Urine Alarms in Intensive Toilet Training Programs
… effectively toilet trained. Lack of independent toileting is associated with detrimental physical, mental, and social experiences. Additionally, individuals who are not toilet trained face barriers accessing meaningful educational, recreational, and vocational settings. A number of published …
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The use of overcorrection in the treatment of irregular enuresis in developmentally disabled persons
… designed to produce and maintain independent toileting in institutionalized retardates. The training procedure is divided into two phases. The first phase is the bladder training procedure, which is then followed by the self-initiation training. Foxx and Azrin note that, regardless of previous …
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A Punishment-free, Toilet-training Protocol for Children with Developmental Disabilities
… exhibited significant improvement in their toileting skills and met the final success criteria rapidly. These results were maintained through follow-up. Implications for the elimination of punishment procedures in future toilet training protocols are discussed.</p>
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Hand range of motion, strength, dexterity, and pain as predictors of hand functional performance
… performance of meal preparation and feeding, toileting, and dressing and grooming. Data were used to model resources required for performance and predict levels of performance. Twelve subjects were retested on the same variables, and the model developed initially was tested. Thresholds of …
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Caregiving: An exploration of African American male caregiver roles in Texas
… activities of daily living such as bathing, toileting, transportation, meal preparation and personal care. Four major themes arose in the study. Major themes were (1) personal choice as a caregiver, (2) non-traditional caregiver roles, (3) skill malfit, and (4) range of duties as a caregiver. …
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Purposeful Hourly Rounding on the Medical Unit
… hourly by CNA’s and RN’s. During rounding, pain, toileting, Positioning and personal needs of the patient will be addressed. In a spot analysis of half the unit (MUB) the total numbers of call lights were 3362 for a 30 day period. The median calls per day were 112 which averaged out to 4.67 calls …
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The culture and practices of military women relating to hygiene in the field environment
Military women must manage toileting, bathing and menses in a variety of deployed and field environments. The act of providing hygiene in austere environments presents problems which can impair the health of the service member and compromise the function of the military organization. The purpose of …
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Efficacy of a Telehealth-Based Parent Training Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Rural versus Urban Areas
… in change of parent self-management skills of toileting issues. Future directions for telehealth treatments for this population are discussed.
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Activity recognition with end-user sensor installation in the home
… of interest to medical professionals such as toileting, bathing, and grooming with detection accuracies ranging from 25% to 89% depending on the evaluation criteria used. Although these preliminary results were based on small datasets collected over a two-week period of time, techniques have …
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Reducing Falls: Utilizing Team Huddles and Visual Aids to Increase Nursing Staff and Patient Knowledge on T.E.A.M. Fall Risk Interventions
… NS had knowledge of the unit’s policy T.E.A.M. (Toileting, Environment, Activity, and Medication) bundle FPIs. Moreover, only 20% of patients surveyed knew they were at high risk for falls. Utilizing Kotter’s Eight-Step Process for Leading Change, the CNL performed a literature review revealing …
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Factors Which Affect Post-Hospital Resource Use and Patient Health Outcomes Among Taiwanese Older Adults
… that most of them had problems with bathing, toileting, riding the bus, walking, and shopping. Three quarters of the participants were fully alert, half of the participants had some kind of cognitive problems. Approximately 20% had a hearing/visual deficit, and approximately 60% had more than …
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Ability and Skill Retraining with Task-Oriented Intervention to Improve Functional Independence in Persons with Stroke
… upper body dressing, lower body dressing, toileting, bed, chair, and wheelchair transfers, and walk/wheelchair locomotion. Means, standard deviations, and t-tests with post hoc testing were used to analyze the data and determine if there were significant differences between baseline and …
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An action research study to improve resident-centred continence care in a multi-purpose service
… The use of containment devices and regular toileting rounds are therefore, commonplace, and increases resident dependency and cost of care. Method: Action research was used with nurses and care staff to address continence care practices for older people living in the aged care section of one …
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Life After Brain Injury - Family Perspectives
… activities of daily living (ADLs) specifically toileting and dignity issues and socialization changes.</p> <p><strong>Implications: </strong>Occupational therapists (OT) can fill in the current gaps in service as there is inadequate support when transitioning from a medical setting and therefore …
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ICELANDIC NURSING HOME RESIDENTS: THEIR MORTALITY, HEALTH, FUNCTIONAL PROFILE, AND CARE QUALITY, USING THE MINIMUM DATA SET OVER TIME
… i.e. ‘Bladder and bowel incontinence without a toileting plan’ from 17.4% in 2003 decreasing to 11.5% in 2009 (p<0.001). Residents’ health and functional status partially explained the increased prevalence of the quality indicators over time. At admittance many residents had a relatively high …
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Identifying fall prevention and management needs of people post-stroke who use wheelchairs and scooters
… data revealed that falls often occurred during toileting, transfers, reaching, or navigating uneven surfaces, and were strongly influenced by stroke-related impairments, inadequate training in safe WC/S skills, and environmental barriers. Across all groups: people post-stroke, care partners, and …
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Transfer-related experiences of people with spinal cord injury living in low socioeconomic, independent living communities in Johannesburg as seen in the context of relationships of personal assistance - a phenomenological study
… activities such as rising, dressing, washing, toileting, eating, and so on. In the lives of PWSCI, access to the means of performing ADL equates, in reality, to access to the means of survival. In low socio-economic communities, it is likely that personal assistance is performed by unpaid …
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