groups of individuals are institutionalized for the remainder of their lives: convicted murderers and frail older adults. Deinstitutionalization movements have liberated those who traditionally require care and services. Orphanages, psychiatric hospitals, state schools, and institutions for individuals who are developmentally disabled have all been replaced by more humane, community-based treat...

The article provides findings of understanding clinical supervisors (CSs) on spirituality and spiritual care in nursing practice. These participants who taught skills to students were registered for R425 SANC Nursing Curriculum. Revealed uncertainties regarding their implementation nursing. They expressed concernes that despite South African Council’s espoused holistic approach nursing, a gap s...

Leadership, whether it is nursing, medical or healthcare leadership, is about knowing how to make visions become reality. The vision that many nurses hold dear to their hearts is one where patients are treated with dignity and respect at all times; where systems are designed for the benefit of individual needs; and where the work performed by nurses and other carers is valued and respected. Ach...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY A key directive of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is to transform both institutional and community-based long-term care into a more person-centered system. In the nursing home industry, the culture change movement is central to this shift in philosophy. If policymakers are to further encourage implementation of culture change, they need to better understand the factors ass...

As the nation's hospitals face increasing demands to participate in a wide range of quality improvement activities, the role and influence of nurses in these efforts is also increasing, according to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). Hospital organizational cultures set the stage for quality improvement and nurses' roles in those activities. Hospitals with suppor...

In this article, I indicate how the naturalized and individualized conception of disability that prevails in philosophy informs indifference philosophers to predictable COVID-19 tragedy has unfolded nursing homes, supported living centers, psychiatric institutions, other institutions which elders younger disabled people are placed. maintain that, insofar as feminist discourses represent these s...

OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of a small-house nursing home model, THE GREEN HOUSE (GH), on residents’ reported outcomes and quality of care. DESIGN: Two-year longitudinal quasi-experimental study comparing GH residents with residents at two comparison sites using data collected at baseline and three follow-up intervals. SETTING: Four 10-person GHs, the sponsoring nursing home for those ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of a small-house nursing home model, THE GREEN HOUSE (GH), on residents' reported outcomes and quality of care. DESIGN Two-year longitudinal quasi-experimental study comparing GH residents with residents at two comparison sites using data collected at baseline and three follow-up intervals. SETTING Four 10-person GHs, the sponsoring nursing home for those...

Family physician (FP) is a suggested model for controlling Iran health system challenges such as non-communicable diseases (NCDs), mental illnesses, and HIV-AIDS besides urbanization, and elderly issues. Although FP is a legal commitment, it faces several obstacles such as lack of infrastructure, diversity of insurances, and unwillingness of senior health policy makers about it. (SUMS) is a pil...

Edited by a trio of university educators from three different countries (New Zealand, Canada, France) and a variety of disciplines (nursing / rehabilitation psychology, physical therapy / bioethics, psychiatry / health services research), Rethinking Rehabilitation: Theory and Practice consists of 14 chapters divided into three sections: ‘‘Rethinking the Past and Re-envisioning the Future’’; ‘‘P...