Nurses Involvement in Nursing Home Culture Change: Overcoming Barriers, Advancing Opportunities [PDF]
, 2009 Summarizes discussions from a 2008 interdisciplinary panel convened to identify facilitators and barriers to nurses' involvement in culture change in nursing homes and actions to promote nurse competencies in resident-directed care.
Bonnie Kantor +9 more
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Psychiatric illness predicts poor outcome after surgery for hip fracture: a prospective cohort study [PDF]
, 2000 Background. Hip fracture is common in the elderly. Previous studies suggest that psychiatric illness is common and predicts poor outcome, but have methodological weaknesses. Further studies are required to address this important issue. Methods.
Holmes, J., House, A.
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Pandemic Performance Measures of Resilience for Healthcare and Education in the Netherlands
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the COVID‐19 pandemic, policymakers focused on improving health outcomes and safeguarding healthcare availability, which have led to negative consequences for other societal systems that persist today. The impact of these policies on health and non‐healthcare systems depends on the resilience of these systems, that is, the capability of
Sophie Hadjisotiriou +10 more
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Depressive illness in institutionalised older people in Malta [PDF]
, 2015 Depression in older persons is associated with being placed in a nursing home. Depression is linked to increased medical morbidity in nursing home residents. 150 patients living in two nursing homes in Malta were included in the study.
Fiorini, Anthony, Zammit, Paul
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Developing a quick and practical screen to improve the identification of poor hydration in geriatric and rehabilitative care [PDF]
, 2010 Dehydration has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Dehydration risk increases with advancing age, and will progressively become an issue as the aging population increases.
Ash, Susan +2 more
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, 2015 This study was a nonequivalent pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study. It was conducted to evaluate the effects of a nursing geriatric nursing education for nursing students' attitude, perception and dementia policy.
Su-Jin Park, K. Park, Young-Ji Kim
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JACCP: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY, EarlyView.Abstract This report describes a novel model of interprofessional education (IPE) integrated with community pharmacy patient care involving six health sciences schools within one university. The University of Pittsburgh's (Pitt) six health sciences schools (Dental Medicine, Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences)
Sophia M. C. Herbert +6 more
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A qualitative study of geriatric specialist nurses’ experiences to navigate delirium in the elderly
BMC NursingBackground The experiences and perceptions of geriatric specialist nurses are pivotal to understanding the complexities of managing delirium and to developing effective nursing interventions.
Mei Wu +5 more
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Examining evidence based resistance plus balance training in community-dwelling older adults with complex health care needs: Trial protocol for the Muscling Up Against Disability project [PDF]
, 2017 Available online 6 October 2016Abstract not availableJustin W.L.
Gardiner, Paul +5 more
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Strengthening Geriatric Expertise in Swiss Nursing Homes: INTERCARE Implementation Study Protocol
Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2019 Nursing home (NH) residents with complex care needs ask for attentive monitoring of changes and appropriate in‐house decision making. However, access to geriatric expertise is often limited with a lack of geriatricians, general practitioners, and/or ...
F. Zúñiga +12 more
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