Family is the first and everlasting shelter for each human being. There is an urgent need for Elderly parent to be supported by his/her primary family group .Unfortunately; nowadays we witness families who cannot afford caring their elder parents at home and send them to a nursing house. The goal of this article is to clarify one of the most important excuses of ceasing family care because of l...

Main results In 259 patients, preoperative assessment was judged as “underassessment possibly affecting perioperative management.” The number of such assessments did not differ for nurses and house officers (table). House officers ordered almost twice as many unnecessary tests as nurses (table). Nursing assessments were judged to be no worse overall than house officer assessments (test for non-...

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In 1974, in response to perceived quality-of-care problems, Medicare regulations, for the first time, required that a physician serve as medical director in skilled nursing facilities and be responsible for the medical care provided in those facilities. Following the passage of the Nursing Home Reform Act in 1987, AMDA’s House of Delegates, in March 1991, passed the Roles and Responsibilities o...

Author affiliations: 1. Nursing Research Institute, St Vincent’s Health Australia (Sydney) and Australian Catholic University, Executive Suite, Level 5, de Lacy Building, 390 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst NSW, Australia 2010. [email protected]; [email protected] 2. School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Australian Catholic University. 3. School of Healthcare Scienc...

BACKGROUND Long-term care providers across the United States are building innovative environments called "Green House" or small-house nursing homes that weave humanistic person-centered philosophies into clinical care, organizational policies, and built environments. PURPOSE To compare and contrast trajectories of at-homeness and health over time between residents remaining in a usual care nu...

BACKGROUND Doctors often find dialogues about death difficult. In Norway, 45% of deaths take place in nursing homes. Newly qualified medical doctors serve as house officers in nursing homes during internship. Little is known about how nursing homes can become useful sites for learning about end-of-life care. The aim of this study was to explore newly qualified doctors' learning experiences with...

In the United States, roughly 16,100 nursing homes house 1.5 million persons. Most (62%) of the homes are for-profit facilities; nearly 54% are part of regional or national chains; 31% are not-for-profit facilities; 7.7% are government-affiliated. In the last 20 years, as nursing homes have assumed responsibility for more acutely ill residents, the jobs of the Administrator, Director of Nursing...