Nursing homes

Option 1- Quality Assurance Nursing home patients deserve the best quality service possible. How this quality is maintained is where Continuous Quality Assurance (CQA) comes into play. CQA sets the standard for an organization and seeks to maintain that level of quality. It is ongoing and uses past experiences as well as future variables to identify how the facility is doing in order to locate where a facility has the potential to or has already failed to maintain standards (Centers for…

nicotine on the walls. So Harriette called the health department and the police because they were abusing the grandma by having her living in unacceptable conditions. Also, most elders are abused in nursing homes, there was a report in Maine, where a grandfather who was sexually abused in a nursing home in 2006. The grandfather said that it was a man and he would not describe what he did to him. Since the abuser was over 18 he paid the…

This type of health care service is a new idea that was for conceptualized in the late 70’s as an alternative to the nursing home that served those who could no longer live alone, but being that the AL or assisted living homes would more follow the “three H’s: health, housing and hospitality.” (Assisted Living History, 2016) By the mid 1980’s the AL’s were a 24-hour service and provided a multitude of amenities that included…

often an issue in the work place, however in the nursing field managing conflict or differences is always a factor in decision-making and care giving. Making ethical decisions based on what the patient wants, family wants, and what the policies say can be challenging when making decisions. Myself, who has only worked in a nursing home setting has seen conflict between upper management, lower management, and family. Looking into ways of how nursing homes find ways to have job satisfaction was…

Most long term care isn't medical care, but rather help with basic personal tasks of everyday life. Medicare doesn’t cover long-term, custodial care if that's the only care needed. Most nursing home care is custodial care and is not covered unless medically necessary, and the patient is in a skilled nursing…

This decentralization also leads to other challenges in the prehospital environment. One issue that needs to be addressed is interstate travel for interfacility transfers and EMS responders going out of state for disaster response. Many questions arise when prehospital providers travel out of the region, into another state’s jurisdictions. Who is responsible for medical oversight of state? If a different medical director is responsible, do they assume liability? In the case of interfacility…

think they will need a LTC services especially, a nursing home. However, in order to sustain the current system one needs to examine how the baby boomers are going to pay for LTC services, either through insurance or savings. It is critical that policymakers need to “reform the current system to ensure that tomorrow’s retirees have access to high quality care without bankrupting future generations” (Calmus,…

for the seniors due to factors such as death of family members or friends, changing family structures, increased probability of living alone, compromised health status and retirement from the workplace. Retirement homes, residential care homes and nursing homes or long term care homes are some kinds of facilities where most of the seniors…

growing older and facing more health challenges and incorporating a twenty-five beds nursing home section will function around the clock care. The official name of this new facility will be know as The Community Care Assisted Living and Nursing Home Facility. The mission statement is providing the state of the art assisted living and nursing facility designed to care for residents by implementing best practices to enhance…

Elderly Abuse Abuse is a serious crime that happens every day, but little do many realize that there is such a thing called elderly abuse among us. We tend to think that the staff and the elderly patients in the facilities, as we call them residents, wouldn’t create any harmful attacks on a resident that one may love the most. There are multiple types of abuse such as physical, sexual, neglect, financial, and emotional. Any type of these abuses can cause a resident to become depressed and make…