Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management articles from October 1988

Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management archives from October 1988

Changes, challenges, and a new beginning. (Nursing Homes magazine) (column)
October 1, 1988... Welcome to the new Nursing Homes magazine. We've made a number of changes in your magazine. Some are fairly subtle and some are quite obvious. All of the changes have been made to improve what has been a good magazine for many years....

Courts rule on physician privileges. (column)
October 1, 1988... Can a nursing home refuse to allow a physician whose practices it does not think are safe to see its patients? Surprisingly, a Kansas court thinks the answer is no, at least in some circumstances. Crestview Manor, a Kansas ICF, revoked...

Survey games. (column)
October 1, 1988... J The threat of taxes scares people. Ask "President" Mondale. Therefore, whoever conceived the gimmick of claiming survey proof that citizens begged to be taxed for some worthy cause was a genius. If people positively want to be taxed,...

Long-term care insurance bill. (column)
October 1, 1988... On April 21, Senator George J. Mitchell (D-ME) introduced Senate bill 2305, providing for long-term care insurance. His plan would cover nursing homes, home-health care, even respite care. His cost estimate: $16 to 18 billion by fiscal...

Arkansas: politics & reform. (nursing homes) (column)
October 1, 1988... The long-term care industry has come to expect assaults by politicians. Sometimes they are justified, other times they are purely political. In Arkansas, things went to extremes. Arkansas' attorney general declared war on the Arkansas...

North Carolina hospitals backed up. (column)
October 1, 1988... The May/June Government Briefs column highlighted "hospital backup '" It occurs when nursing home beds cannot be found for elderly patients ready for release from a hospital. Apparently, there are no national figures on the problem's extent....

Study shows inappropriate drug scheduling. (column)
October 1, 1988... The inappropriate scheduling and administration of medications in a geriatric nursing home was studied by a consultant pharmacist in a 72-bed geriatric nursing home over a two-year period. Noted were 24 documented cases of inappropriate drug...

Is aging a disease?
October 1, 1988... The growing concern of the health care profession for the elderly is unprecedented. Until recently, medical science paid little attention to the special problems of the elderly. Old age was simply considered an inevitable and, therefore,...

Together we care; families and staff can work together to meet the spiritual needs of residents.
October 1, 1988... Long-term care factities all have a mission. It does not matter who actually owns that health care facility. Its program is there to care for people. Within church-related facilities, we speak of our health care services as a ministry to...

The 1988 Geri-Olympics: exercise, socializing, and everyone's a winner.
October 1, 1988... It had been cloudy for days, but this day the skies were clear and it was sunny. It was hot, but not scorching. It was an almost perfect day for the Senior Olympiatrics. The teams are composed of nursing home residents from the Beaver...

Daily rewards for a nurse's aid.
October 1, 1988... When I tell people that I am a nurse's aide and work in a large nursing home, their first reaction usually is, "How do you stand it?" Nursing home residents are a special group. Most are elderly. Women outnumber men. But aB are...

Alternative staffing patterns.
October 1, 1988... , As a long-term care administrator, this writer wonders why one day follows another with problems, problems, problems. As I solve an acute problem regarding an admission, the chronic problem of staffing again is brought to my desk,...

The therapeutic arsenal. (danger of drug therapy)
October 1, 1988... The appropriate and rational use of drugs by the elderly is a matter of growing social and medical concern. Though it is an accepted truth that drug therapy provides a helpful, cost-effective approach to many acute and chronic diseases...

Staff development: an interdisciplinary approach.
October 1, 1988... Staff development in the broadest definition includes orientation, in-service education, and continuing education. The purpose of staff development is to maintain and improve the quality of health care through the educational process....

Sharing a common dream. (nursing home patients and staff) (column)
October 1, 1988... D Why do they act that way? Well, they are so old who can figure them out anyway? But are "they", the residents of nursing homes, so different from us? Too often the staff in long-term care facilities fall into what I call the...