Nursing home

The Blumberg’s Nursing Home (BNH) must hire professional, ethical staff members to care for the residents and provide support for the facility. Unfortunately, the inappropriate actions of a few employees have caused them to lose their jobs which place the nursing home in a predicament since they are now short staffed in vital areas. Maintaining a safe, law-abiding organization is essential, and in this instance, corrective measures would not suffice. Moreover, there are specific guidelines in…

In this article review we learn how important it is to evaluate a range of staffingmeasures and data sources for long-term use in public reporting of staffing as a qualitymeasure in nursing homes. Systematic reviews bring together all valid and relevant evidenceto determine the “effectiveness, appropriateness, and feasibility of an intervention.A couple key points in this article are that some studies have shown better quality ofcare with higher levels of licensed staff. I found this very…

My choice is where my grandmother is; she is 88 and has been in the nursing home for 3 years now. The nursing home is about 2 miles out of town, which is easy to get to, it’s on a main highway they keep fairly clean. My mother talked to her siblings when the decision to put grandma in the nursing home. My mother was in her life that she couldn’t and wouldn’t get up and around. So the decision to put her in a nursing home was a decision that wasn’t made easy. None of the siblings wanted to deal…

Castle, N. G., & Handler, S. M. (2013). Feature Article: Use of HIT for adverse event reporting in nursing homes: Barriers and facilitators. Geriatric Nursing, 34112-115. doi:10.1016/j.gerinurse.2012.10.003 This article is a study by Wagner, Castle, and Handler that analyzes why adverse events reporting are such an issue especially in the nursing home setting. The authors determine that most nursing homes do not use a computer which makes it difficult for healthcare workers to access easily and…

good condition, I would look into at home services, to keep my relative in their own home as long as possible. It has been proven best for their mental health if they are kept in familiar surroundings for as long as it is reasonable. At-home services can include another relative caring for them, trained staff doing so, or a combination of both. If their mental health is declining at a fairly rapid pace, and it is no longer reasonable to keep them at their home I would look into moving them to an…

In the beginning, I elected to volunteer at Trinity Nursing Home since it was an atmosphere I missed. What started out a way to accumulate time for a class quickly turned into an anticipated encounter. Trinity homes offer mostly long-term care and also temporary amenities to a large percentage of older adults and illnesses. According to Trinity Homes Welcome page, they have operated since 1948 offering 24-hour care in a home-like setting. In addition, to around the clock care, specialized…

To study the effect of individualized music therapy on nursing home residents with moderate to severe dementia. Also, to study the effect of this music therapy on the resident’s quality of life and psychotropic medications. Crossover, exploratory, randomized control trial. Forty-two nursing home residents from 14 different nursing homes with moderate to severe dementia were randomized into a sequence of six weeks of standard care and six weeks of individualized music therapy. The agitation…

The person served was engaged into Bridgeway PATH services in March 2011 when she was found homeless, sleeping on a Park Bench in Plainfield, NJ. The PATH team was able to link her to permanent housing in August 2011, and she was transferred to Supportive Housing (SH) on 8/31/2011. The person served was a 57 year old, African American female who resided in her own apartment in Elizabeth, NJ. She had been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, manic severe with psychotic features, Personality…

Rebecca I have only a year left in reaching my bachelor’s degree in health management. After school I plan on attending the IT program through my work and learn the ins and outs of being an executive director of a nursing home. I am not sure if I will extend this by starting out in a nursing home or in medical supplies but it is a step in the right direction. When it comes to leadership skills and leading a team in a project either in the work field or through a school project there are many…

with the ability to advance and grow your income. The Health and Medical Studies at Granton Tech will prepare you for employment in one of these venues: * Hospitals * Long--Term Care * Nursing Home * Physician's Office - general practitioners, pediatricians, chiropractors, and dozens of specialists * In-Home care * Senior Living With the aging population, insurance companies are beginning to cover more preventive care procedures. Medical commerce is gearing up for preventive care as opposed…