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Strategies for promoting positive behaviors of staff in nursing homes.
Discussions held in 15 cities involving 455 nursing home residents elicited their views on quality of care. When asked what constitutes quality care and which factor is most important in creating a good nursing home environment, residents most often mentioned the attitudes, qualifications, competence, and the quality of the interactions between and among staff and residents. The quality of the residents' life was positively influenced by helpful, friendly, competent, and cheerful staff who treated each resident as a person worthy of dignity and respect.'
The significance that residents place on staff behaviors suggests that quality of life is intimately ...
- Negative rewards for positive behaviors.(Point of View)
- Magazine article from: Phi Delta Kappan Castrale, E. Gale Cunio, Theordore F. December 1, 1995 700+ words
...regarding the practice of being negatively rewarded for their positive behaviors. The questions were structured to ascertain whether the...said that they had experienced negative rewards for their positive behaviors was alarmingly high: more than 78% of the teachers and...
- Nursing homes' latest hurdle: insurance rates.
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business SANTIAGO, RAQUEL May 8, 2000 700+ words
Local nursing homes contending with the challenges of...Alliance, a network of 25 nonprofit nursing homes in northern Ohio. "They're experiencing...simply are not renewing coverage for nursing homes. Lawsuits against nursing homes...
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- Magazine article from: Nursing Homes Peck, Richard L. August 1, 1998 700+ words
...certainly of appropriate concern to nursing homes, as healthcare's newcomers to the...considered, much less signed, what must nursing homes do to break the ice with these unfamiliar...explained in a recent interview with Nursing Homes/Long Term Care Management Editor...
- Nursing homes facing change; A report today will recommend revamping rules that...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Wolfe, Warren February 1, 2000 700+ words
Without state help, some nursing homes may follow the dinosaurs into...good results and helping some nursing homes shrink, change roles or shut...to help consumers choose good nursing homes, officials said. "The market...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Charles Stein, Globe staff November 18, 1995 700+ words
Massachusetts' nursing homes don't have to wait for the Republican...it first. The trade group for nursing homes yesterday filed a bill in the Legislature...roughly half the state's 550 nursing homes would get less money next year...
- NURSING HOMES IN CRISIS AFTER PAYMENT-PLAN SHIFT.(FRONT)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot Simpson, Elizabeth February 13, 2000 700+ words
Nursing homes throughout Hampton Roads are facing...the least amount of care, leaving nursing homes to deal with the tougher cases. In...which means more people are using nursing homes as a stopgap measure. ``Ten years...
- Underperforming nursing homes named by CMS.
- Newspaper article from: Discharge Planning Advisor May 1, 2008 700+ words
Underperforming nursing homes named by CMS Agency hopes exposure...publish the names of underperforming nursing homes. CMS in November 2007 began publishing...special focus facility" (SFF) nursing homes that had failed to improve significantly...
- Most California Nursing Homes Short of Standards, Study Finds.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 16, 2002 700+ words
...Tribune Business News Oct. 16--Most nursing homes in Los Angeles County are understaffed...statewide survey released Tuesday. Of 435 nursing homes in Los Angeles County, 79 percent...at the approximately 30 Long Beach nursing homes were for staffing levels. The California...
