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Nursing Home and Nursing Home Physician: The Dutch Experience
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2004Dutch nursing home care today includes a broad range of institutional and outreaching care functions. Medical care is an essential part of this care. Nursing home medicine in The Netherlands has developed as an officially acknowledged medical specialty.
Chris van Weel, J M G A Schols
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Nursing in a Skilled Nursing Home
The American Journal of Nursing, 1966The physical, emotional, and social disabilities of patients in a proprietary skilled nursing home, as determined by a six-month study, require that they have nursing care which is quite different from that needed by patients in a general voluntary hospital.
M B, Miller +3 more
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THE SITUATION WITH NURSING HOMES
AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1965Improved care has come in the past few years, yet an eminent social worker, respected for her leadership in care of the aged, finds the problems overshadow the gains. She reports that nursing homes are too widely considered a business first, a service second. She says they offer nursing as their main commodity, yet the nursing care is usually far below
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AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2014
These facilities need actual nurses and better staffing regulations.
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These facilities need actual nurses and better staffing regulations.
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Psychiatry and the nursing home
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1987In the last two decades, nursing homes have become major providers of health services for the frail elderly. Despite ample evidence of need for specialized psychiatric services in the nursing home setting, the majority of patients who could benefit from such care do not receive it.
S, Borson +3 more
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Incontinence in the Nursing Home
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1995Urinary and fecal incontinence are prevalent, disruptive, and expensive health problems in the nursing home population. Nursing home residents who are incontinent of urine should have a basic diagnostic assessment, including a focused history and bladder record, a targeted physical examination, a urinalysis, and a determination of postvoid residual ...
J G, Ouslander, J F, Schnelle
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2004
Background. Nursing homes have an important role in the care of frail older people, but concerns have been raised about the quality of care. High standards of care appear to be facilitated when nurses work in effective teams. Greater understanding of teamworking in nursing homes could have implications for training and policy‐making.Aim.
Wicke, Dorothy +2 more
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Background. Nursing homes have an important role in the care of frail older people, but concerns have been raised about the quality of care. High standards of care appear to be facilitated when nurses work in effective teams. Greater understanding of teamworking in nursing homes could have implications for training and policy‐making.Aim.
Wicke, Dorothy +2 more
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The 'Nursing' in Nursing Homes
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995To the Editor. —Dr Kane's 1 essay on long-term care states, in the abstract, "Nursing home care... has been neglected by physicians." And so it should be. The proper focus of physicians is on the treatment and prevention of illness. Debilitated elderly people should no more be considered ipso facto ill than should pregnant women, though anyone in ...
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Nursing Home-to-Nursing Home Transfers
Medical Care, 2000To characterize the time pattern of nursing home-to-nursing home transfers and assess which resident characteristics are associated with transfers.Minimum Data Set assessments of all Maine and New York nursing home residents were obtained for 1994-1996.
R A, Hirth +2 more
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Falls in the Nursing Home: Are They Preventable?
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2004Falls are prevalent in elderly patients residing in nursing homes, with approximately 1.5 falls occurring per nursing home bed-years. Although most are benign and injury-free, 10% to 25% result in hospital admission and/or fractures. Primary care providers for nursing home residents must therefore aim to reduce both the fall rate as well as the rate of
Man Quang, Vu +2 more
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