on an as-needed basis; and finally 4) institutional care, which consists of nursing homes with medical care support. While there is no need for adults to pass through the first three stages before arriving at the final stage of nursing home care in the long-term care continuum, it is not uncommon to see such progression. Nursing home care provides a solution for long-term care because it offers the setting conducive to each of the first three settings while supportive of the medical needs of the final two settings. While Rowles and Teaster (2015) point out that nursing homes can act as short-term… Continue Reading...
issues arise in all healthcare settings but primarily in hospice and palliative care environments, including nursing homes. A survey of nine nursing home residents and their relatives showed that residents generally defer to relatives and staff and few have formal advanced care planning directives (Bollig, Gjengedal & Rosland, 2015). Healthcare administrators should start mandating advanced care planning directives to avoid legal and ethical conundrums. Moreover, offering patients the ability to plan helps them to psychologically contend with mortality, which can also improve relationships with family members. Extending life indefinitely and for no reason is not necessarily beneficence, just as physician-assisted suicide and passive euthanasia are… Continue Reading...
NPs give primary and specialized care to individuals, groups, families, and communities in several settings. They work in nursing homes, nurse-managed clinics, workplaces, schools, hospitals as well as private practices that they may run independently. Most of them specialize in a given area -- for instance -- family, pediatric, gerontological or adult care along with other areas like mental/psychiatric health and women's health (American Nurses Association, 2011).
Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM)
CNMs are popularly known to help mothers deliver babies in birthing centers, homes, and hospitals. They also have other roles like managing women's health over their lifespan, giving primary care, performing gynecological checkups, giving advice on family planning,… Continue Reading...
Covidien Pad Research
There are a number of major concerns when it comes to the residents of rehabilitation centers, nursing homes or any other similar facilities that house people of higher age and/or that otherwise have toileting issues. While the management, supervisors and nurses (among others) of those facilities take great care to ensure that residents are using the toilet as they need to and assisting them with the same as needed, staffing and other limitations preclude there from being any assertion that the need for Depends, Covidien Wings or other similar undergarments are not or should not be needed. Indeed, there are situations where a resident is asleep,… Continue Reading...
hospice programs may at times be provided in another venue (MedicineNet, 2018). Some of the hospice facilities may include hospitals, nursing homes, and freestanding facilities. Hospitals have a philosophy of providing spiritual, social, and emotional support for patients’ needs concurrently with medical support in order to offer wholesome treatment for the patient (MedicineNet, 2018).
Generally, hospice programs employ the multidisciplinary group approach (MedicineNet, 2018). This approach may entail the support of social workers, clergy, doctor, and nurse in the provision of care (MedicineNet, 2018). Some of the provided services include pain control using drugs, and other symptom management plans including speech therapy, occupational, and physical therapy, medical, equipment, and medical… Continue Reading...
is consistent with non-profit healthcare.
Mission and Vision
One of the main aspects of non-profit nursing homes and health care organizations is that they tend to be more proactive about putting people before profits. In other words, profits are not their primary aim. Their primary aim is to serve the needs of others—and in doing so, by engaging in servant leadership within the community, they develop a reputation for providing genuine, authentic care for people. As a result, they earn the esteem of the community, obtain benefactors and donors to assist with the maintenance of operations, and are sustained through the fees charged for providing… Continue Reading...
