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Nursing Assistant Views on Nursing Home Regulatory Inspection

open access: yesJournal of Applied Gerontology, 2010
Nursing assistants provide more than 80% of direct care to residents. However, it is unknown whether or not they clearly understand the purpose of nursing home regulation and incorporate regulatory standards in their care delivery process. This study uses qualitative methods to explore their experiences with nursing home inspection.
Gawon Chung
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Association between nursing home staff turnover and infection control citations [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Services Research, 2022
ObjectiveTo describe the association between nursing home staff turnover and the presence and scope of infection control citations.Data sourcesSecondary data for all US nursing homes between March 31, 2017, through December 31, 2019 were obtained from ...
Lacey Loomer   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Nursing home inspection has failed

Nursing Standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain): 1987), 1997
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Developing scaled tools for residential and nursing home inspection: feasibility study [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Governance, 2020
Purpose: This study explored the feasibility of developing scaled inspection tools for use during external inspection of health and social care facilities to give improved accuracy in identifying facilities “at risk”, a tool for risk-adjusted frequency ...
Brian J Taylor, Mary Mccolgan
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Quality Indicators as Predictors of Future Inspection Performance in Ontario Nursing Homes

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2020
There are several mechanisms for monitoring the quality of care in long-term care (LTC), including the use of quality indicators derived from resident assessments and formal inspections. The LTC inspection process is time and resource-intensive, and there may be opportunities to better target inspections.
Pouria Mashouri   +3 more
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Quality of Care in Private Nursing Homes: Improving Inspection

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1993
Describes how the 1984 Registered Homes Act has been implemented at the DHA and operational levels, concentrating on the monitoring of care in private nursing homes. It can be seen that, perhaps due to the unspecific nature of the Act, there are significant differences between the DHAs, in terms of the degree of importance attached to quality of care ...
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Nursing homes: registration, conduct and inspection

1994
The discussion of legal provisions relating to institutions and facilities delivering personal health care would be incomplete without also giving a brief survey of regulations relating to nursing homes and mental nursing homes, as well as residential care homes, established and maintained outside the National Health Service.
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Improving through inspecting: pharmaceutical inspectors in nursing homes

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2002
English health authorities are required to inspect pharmaceutical practice in registered nursing homes within their area. The inspection process provides opportunities to improve as well as monitor practice. An exploratory study is reported in which the verbal and non‐verbal behaviour of pharmaceutical inspectors was recorded.
Roger Paxton, M.N. Asghar
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Unannounced, compared with announced inspections: A systematic review and exploratory study in nursing homes

Health Policy, 2013
Politicians and regulators have high expectations of unannounced inspections. Unannounced inspections, unlike announced ones, would, they believe, lead to a clearer insight into the risks and a reduction of the regulatory burden. In order to verify these assumptions, a systematic review of the scientific literature and an exploratory study were ...
Klerks, MCJL   +2 more
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