Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from March 1985

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from March 1985

Take the "con" out of consulting in the hospitality food-service industry. (column)
March 1, 1985... The world of food-service management in the 1980s is just right for the consultant. It's difficult to make a profit in commercial operations and to hold the line on costs in the institutional sector. Big companies get bigger and generate...

Voluntary binding arbitration. (column)
March 1, 1985... Malpractice litigation is a waste of time, money, and energy. The only possible benefactors are lawyers. Even those gladiators endure great stress and strain. The cure is prophylaxis, but that seems unlikely as long as health-care delivery...

Management of personnel in long-term care.
March 1, 1985... Although this book is aimed at nurse managers who oversee care of long-term patients, no one with an interest in the elderly or chronically ill should overlook it. A commendable introduction to all aspects of long-term care, it has enough...

Surveyor methodology for detecting medication errors. (Medication Errors In Nursing Homes, part 2) (column)
March 1, 1985... The Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA) has recently field tested a new observational methodology for investigating and determining the frequency of medication errors in long-term-care facilities. It is reasonable to expect that...

Dying dignified: the health professional's guide to care.
March 1, 1985... fifty years ago most people died at home in their own beds, surrounded by family and friends with whom they had made their peace. Today, when 80 percent of deaths occur in hospitals and nursing homes, dying is too often an act of lonely...

Housekeeping, laundry, plant, maintenance, and life safety for a nursing home.
March 1, 1985... Introduction Fenley Home is a 200-bed nursing home providing comprehensive care and extended care to persons suffering from disease, disability, or advanced age. Within the facility, there are two units, 50 beds in each, which provide...

The 1985 legislative outlook for nursing homes.
March 1, 1985... Nineteen eighty-five, with a renewed Reagan Administration and 99th Congress, is bound to witness consideration of nursing home issues with major significance to the future of long-term-care delivery. The American Health Care Association...

One educator's experience with a paraplegic student nurse.
March 1, 1985... An interoffice communication to me from the director of the upper division of the Villanova (Pa.) University College of Nursing read, "Please see me as soon as possible about a student you will have in your next clinical group." That note...

Nursing ethics: theories and pragmatics.
March 1, 1985... As nursing has emerged into a true profession, nurses are becoming increasingly concerned with ethics. What rights does a nurse have when dealing with her patients, physicians, other nurses, and the general public? What obligations does she...

Two are better than one (Eccles. 4:9) - successful job sharing in a nursing home.
March 1, 1985... Is it natural to enjoy working in a nursing home with sick, dying, and severely impaired residents? Is it possible to sparkle amidst frequent crises, to thrive under a steady barrage of family complaints? Yes, say two social workers at the...

Operating standards for health-care facilities.
March 1, 1985... "Operating Standards" attempts to compile each federal law or administrative rule--or a summary thereof--mandating standards for hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and intermediate care facilities. It is designed to serve as a day-to-day...

A dynamic planning framework for nursing homes.
March 1, 1985... Planning often is erroneously conceived as an exclusively preliminary activity. While the planning process is essential to the initial design of the ways and means of meeting objectives, it should not end there. The viability of nursing...

Geriatric medicine: a requirement for fourth-year medical students. (part 2)
March 1, 1985... A program in New York City jointly sponsored by a distinguished medical school and an equally prestigious nursing home could prove to be a turning point in the generation-old struggle to increase MD interest in the aging. It reflects a pair of...

Working with the elderly: group processes and technique.
March 1, 1985... One of the marks of a good text and reference book is its ability to combine the necessary theoretical information with directions for its practical application. With the rise of health costs and the rapidly growing number of elderly people in...