Essays Tagged: "nursing homes"
The Nursing Home
The Nursing Home: A Nice Place for the ElderlyA.) Security1.)Curfews2.)Lost faculties (No need to drive) ... )Takes stress off of the family2.)Help with prescriptions and medicine3.)In case of emergency...The Nursing Home: A Haven for the ElderlyToday's nursing homes are excellent environments for our elderl ... aily chores like washing the dishes or mowing the lawn. One should be able to relax and enjoy life. Nursing homes give the elderly a chance to do just that.Security is a primary focus in most nursing ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
A State of Mind Thirty-five years old and mentally ill. Sarah is one of hundreds and thousands of people who suffer with debilitating forms of mental illness.
as a long-term care organization, we were immediately challenged by federal and state regulations. Nursing homes have long been the solution for geriatric residential care. The mid-seventies witnesse ... grew. We had managed to operate a behavioral health program within the walls of a licensed skilled nursing facility. We were making a difference in the lives of many.Last December, a devastating blow ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Nosocomial Infections
erm "nosocomial infection" should not be limited to just the hospital setting. People who reside in nursing homes or who have had short-term procedures have also been found to develop infections due t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
It's a job description for Physical Therapy.I have used this paper over and over for different classes. It includes the works cited page too.
ment:a. Hospitalsb. Officesc. Clinicsd. Home Health Agenciese. Out patient rehabilitation centersf. Nursing Homesg. Armed Forcesh. Self-employedi. SchoolsC. Benefits:a. Help people overcome or adjust ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Financial Regulations in Healthcare
e incentives to limit costs for treatment that hospitals do. Other health care providers; including nursing homes, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, and managed care plans, now share wi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
HUMAN RESOURSES MANAGEMENT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION
define some of the problems in recruiting staff for the long-term care setting particularly skilledNursing homes and try to focus more in depth in retention strategies including some that I have help ... developand implement as part of my duties as a Dept. Head in my facility.PROBLEM IDTurnover in the Nursing Home setting is long standing and now is worse than ever and getting worse. In somefacilitie ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management
Elder Abuse in the Family
mily members and others (AOA, 2003).Elderly abuse has been accounted for in nearly one-third of the nursing homes in the United States. "Often, the elder abuse violations caused actual harm to residen ... se has been made, the time just following this diagnosis that is most critical and requires careful nursing intervention. The nurse must understand that this is a very delicate situation for both the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
A nursing report based on a research article 'evaluating a palliative care education project in nursing homes'
This report is based on a research article, ' Evaluating a palliative care education project in nursing homes', by Froggart (2000). The author of the article Katherine Froggart, who is the head of ... liative Care Studies, discusses the establishment of a 2-year palliative education pilot project in nursing homes.The aim of her project was to address the palliative care needs of residents in nursin ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust
eation of the "T-4" program. The T-4 program, also known as the Reich Work Group of Sanitariums and Nursing Homes, was created for the medical killing of mental and physical defectives. It operated fr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
Alzhiemer's disease.
rment in elderly people and accounts for a large percentage of admissions to assisted living homes, nursing homes, and other long-term care facilities. Psychotic symptoms, such as delusions and halluc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Abuse and Neglect on the elderly
pread, and therefore societal, problem. This news report outlines the problems of seniors living in nursing homes.How would you analyze this social problem? Would you use a structural-functional, symb ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Assisted Suicide- Facing the End of life with Personhood
he normal process of dying is frequently hidden from us, with family members dying in hospitals and nursing homes. The process of dying is unknown and frightening. We will all die. We may be able to p ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia
Adult Daycare
nd holds a bachelors degree in heath care administration; his husband Jeff, has been a volunteer in nursing homes over the period of her mother's stay in a residential home.Together, Mr. Jeff and Chri ... ess reduction counseling, and long term care placement counseling.Macon Adult Day Care will provide nursing services such as blood sugar level screening for diabetic clients, daily dispensing of requi ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Clostridium Perfringens
, Emergency Response Team was called in to the case because their was an outbreak occurring in many nursing homes in Ocala. Many were falling ill and many people eating in Surrey Place came down with ... sible for containing the disease and finding out who was behind this bioterrorism attack on Ocala's nursing homes. Since the bioterrorism attack took place, a lot of people have been taking out their ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Nursing Home Comparason
Finding a nursing home is a hard job. Families of elderly need to know how to compare nursing homes. If you ma ... easily jeopardize your loved one's life. There are many issues we need to look at when we research nursing homes. It becomes a full time job investigating which nursing facility meets your needs.4 mo ... brought her to this final point. So my mom and I set out on a long journey to research and compare nursing homes. Our decision came down to two nursing homes, Rosewood and Peabody Glenn.Rosewood Nurs ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
De institutionalization
is where they would go from there. “Some former patients went home to their families, some to nursing homes, where almost a million mentally ill Americans now live. Some ended up in board-and-ca ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Long term care ltc
that helps you hold on to your fortune once you enter into a long term care facility. LTC pays for nursing homes and rehabilitation facility expenses most people don't consider will ever happen to th ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Nursing Home Disrespect
As an employee of a nursing home you get the pleasure to have a co-workers meaning that they should work just a I do. Bu ... ing? once an adult, twice a child?. Especially taking them away from their homes to an institutions(nursing homes). These upset their long term illness like, heart problems, dimension disease etc. som ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Empathy
e homeless? How many people give their time or even a thought to the elderly that have been sent to nursing homes and forgotten? Very few people can say that they give their time and effort freely to ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Homelessness in Corpus Christi
& Associates, 2005).Inadequate discarge planning for persons leaving corretional failities and nursing homes and the mentally handicaped lead to much of the homeless population in Corpus Christi. ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays