Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from March 1988

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from March 1988

Effects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Non-Profit Health Care Organizations.
March 1, 1988... EFFECTS OF THE 1986 TAX REFORM ACT ON NONPROFIT HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS. By Richard T, Frazier and John T. Hopkins, CPA. Primer series for health-care professionals, No. 4. Packard Press, Financial Publishing Div., 10th & Spring Garden...

Questionable drug efficacy in dementia, anemia, and urinary infections. (column)
March 1, 1988... Abstract Drugs ordered on a chronic basis for patients of a 72-bed skilled nursing facility were reviewed by a consultant pharmacist for efficacy as part of drug regimen reviews, over a two-year period. Drugs classified as "less than...

A new procedure in the evaluation of nursing aide applicants. (Health Care Providers Inventory test)
March 1, 1988... Much of the day-to-day care in long-term-care facilities is provided by nursing aides. And to a great extent the quality of care is related to the quality of the people who are employed in those positions. In many settings, the turnover rate...

The recertification visit: maximizing the benefit for the resident.
March 1, 1988... Each resident in a nursing home must be seen by a physician at regular intervals in most states, according to licensure regulations. While the aim of that requirement is to recertify the need for nursing home care, the benefit for the resident...

Important perspectives for the nursing home staff.
March 1, 1988... Having my mother in a nursing home for seven years and a brother on hyperal feeding and dialysis for eight years gave me an opportunity to gain insight into nursing care from a unique perspective. Those were two people whom I loved dearly....

Primary patients in a nursing home.
March 1, 1988... Formerly a "primary nurse," I always wished to practice that concept where I work-in a nursing home. Because of the number of patients that a nurse must manage in a nursing home, the concept was impossible; but a similar concept using a...

Research rates high with residents.
March 1, 1988... Residents of three Tulsa, Oklahoma area nursing homes are helping researchers find some answers to the unsolved puzzle of Alzheimer's disease. Recent research has linked Alzheimer's and Down's syndrome through enzymes found on the number 21...

A salute to nurses.
March 1, 1988... The modern Florence Nightingales too often go unappreciated by their patient"unsung," so to speak, by the general public. That should not be true when something as important as care of the ill and elderly is at stake. Such being the...

Staff development: a catalyst for change.
March 1, 1988... Regardless of the amount of course work nurses have, clinical experience always can teach us something new. I had been a nursing educator in a university setting, when I decided to go back to graduate school for a doctorate in adult...

Bioethical issues and the long-term-care facility.
March 1, 1988... Death and dying have now moved from being a taboo subject to one that is the basis for books, research studies, magazine articles, and television programs. In the past, death was a more private matter, usually occurring at home. Now, over 85...

Hug-a-pug. (visiting a nursing home with pet dogs)
March 1, 1988... Every Thursday morning for the past three years there is an excitement around our house, not experienced on other days, for Laurie and Ebony know that they are going to visit their friends at the nursing home. Laurie is an eight-year-old...