Nursing homes

Welcome to North View Nursing Home. I am Catrina, the manager of the staff at this nursing home. Our nursing home provides care of 50 residents with a range of different health needs, for example mental health, especially dementia. As you are a new care worker, we will provide you with the appropriate training on how to understand elderly residents’ needs during your induction. Elderly residents may display challenging behaviour during certain time due to certain factors (for example: feeling…

there is what is known as the patients bill of rights. This is a print out form that lists the different rights in hopes that other individuals will also be aware of these rights. Patients need to know that they do have a say in what becomes there new home. “Patient rights are founded on both legal and ethical principles” (Singh, pg. 91). Legal refers to the can and cannot’s whereas ethical refers to the do’s and do not’s. Ethics in this case is a patient’s free will and informed consent.…

medication is not working. In high school, I was able to earn my CNA and work with residents at a nursing home. I was able to work with residents with long-term and short-term conditions. Each resident I cared for encouraged me to keep pushing forward from learning from their personal stories, as well as caring from that person medically. Realizing how many people come through a hospital or nursing home has made me desire to become a nurse to provide comfort and care to those in need.…

1) Identify the social problem or problems (in at least one paragraph). 3 pts. The social problem addressed in the BBC World News artictle titled Care home (Nursing Homes) whistleblowers increasing is the treatment of elderly and disabled people in nursing homes. It appears this issue received greater attention following a BBC episode which revealed patient abuse at a hospital. From 2010-2012 about 556 reports have been made by relatives and staff. The reports included the neglect of basic…

Tuality home health is a home health agency that sees patients in Washington county and surrounding areas. The services provided through home health are skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and social work. Home health has to be ordered by a doctor in order for patients to be admitted to service. Skilled nursing care provided to patients to patients consists of catheter care, wound care, ostomy care, diabetes management and education, congestive heart failure…

perspective, I think moving Mr. P into a nursing home is the best interests for him. However, since he is strongly resisting doing so, I would refer him with outside assistance services. Before the outside assistance arrives, I will contact him by phone and check his safety. VI. Evaluate the selected course of action Test of justice I think I will do the same things with other elderly. I will first trying to persuade them to live in a nursing home. If they refuse my suggestion, I will…

(6) months Mrs. Lewis who was the head nurse on the medical surgical floor in the local community hospital has been noticing that all patients who have been admitted from the Shady Rest Nursing Home had severe injuries that were not connected with their admitting diagnosis. Which led her to believe the nursing home was abusing the patient and led her to investigate and contacted the Department of Welfare Bureau of Inspection, which immediately found proof of abuse. But when Mrs. Lewis was…

Staff of nursing homes often treat elderly residents as if they were incapable of making decisions or understanding normal patterns of communication (Williams, 2001). Staff communication with residents can be patronizing and demeaning using a language called elderspeak (Grimme, Buchanan, and Afflerback, 2015). Elderspeak is a form of communication directed at older adults which approaches interaction from a juvenile perspective with exaggerated statements and limited vocabulary (Grimme et al.,…

1. Every nurse must wear gloves when passing medications if you have to touch the medications. 2. Please do not pre-pour water for medications until the resident present for their medications 3. Please do not give out coffee to residents on 2nd or 3rd shift. Coffee is ONLY given to resident during breakfast. 4. Medications can be given out an hour before and an hour after the specific time. Medications should not be denied to resident who come an hour before or an hour after. 5. Please remember…

On this date worker visited Burns Nursing Home located in Russellville Alabama, for the purpose of assessing Ms. Taylor's need for services. When worker arrived Ms. Taylor was alert and aware of surroundings eating lunch. Worker introduced herself and explained the reason for the visit. Ms. Taylor admitted to her sons yelling at sometimes but not in a threatening way but joking around. Ms. Taylor stated, "My boys wait on be hand and foot, if around." When questioned about her sons, Timmy and…