Download or read book Maintaining the Autonomy of Residents in a Skilled Nursing Facility written by Judith Butler Hilburger and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Medical Surgical Nursing written by Adrianne Dill Linton, PhD, RN, FAAN and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 1411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading medical-surgical text for LPN/LVN students, Linton's Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, 6th Edition offers just the right level of information to equip today's students to effectively care for adults and older adults. Covering both medical-surgical and psychiatric mental health conditions and disorders, this comprehensive text addresses the LPN/LVN's role in a variety of care settings, including acute care and long-term care, with a special emphasis on assignment and supervision responsibilities. It also emphasizes culturally competent care and holistic nursing, while thoroughly covering all relevant NCLEX-PN test plan content No other resource offers the breadth of topics at a level that is so perfectly tailored to the LPN/LVN student. Foundational units on basic concepts related to the health care system, care settings, the nursing process, leadership, nutrition, the older adult, growth and nutrition, legal/ethical considerations, evidence-based nursing care, and many more essential topics, avoid repetition later in the text and create a foundation to build your understanding of disorders by body system. Safety alerts are highlighted throughout the text with a Safety Considerations icon. A separate unit on psychiatric mental health nursing covers psychosocial responses to illness, psychiatric disorders, and substance abuse - eliminating the need for a separate psychiatric mental health nursing text. Content related to the NCLEX-PN test plan is emphasized throughout the text, including health promotion, nutrition, legal/ethical issues, HIPAA, and prevention of medication/medical errors. Separate chapters on common, high-profile disorders (including hypertension, diabetes, and shock), provide an in-depth understanding for patient care. Focus on assignment and supervision helps you assign tasks to nurse assistants, patient care techs, and unlicensed assistive personnel, and makes sure they understand the difference between delegation, management, supervision, and assignment of tasks on the health care team. UNIQUE! In-depth pharmacology coverage includes: the Pharmacology Tutorial covering drug classifications, how drugs work, and nursing responsibilities; Pharmacology Capsules boxes providing medication information, precautions for use, interactions, and side/adverse effects; and Pharmacology and Medications tables including classification, use/action, side/adverse effects, and nursing interventions. A separate unit on gerontologic nursing provides comprehensive coverage of the care of the older adult and related disorders. No other LPN/LVN med-surg text offers as much coverage of this primary patient group. Diagnostic Tests and Procedures tables offer quick reference to MRI, CT, Doppler flow, lumbar puncture tests for neurologic disorders, and much more. Health Promotion Considerations boxes highlight timely wellness and disease prevention topics. Patient Teaching Plans provide bulleted lists of nursing instructions for patients, stressing the role and responsibility of the LPN/LVN to reinforce patient education. Nutrition Considerations boxes are spotlighted at appropriate points throughout the text to emphasize the role that nutrition plays in disease and nursing care. Nursing care plans reinforce the nursing process and focus on critical thinking. Cultural Considerations boxes discuss the importance of providing culturally-competent care related to various clinical situations. Put on Your Thinking Cap boxes allow you to pause and consider the practical implications of what you have just read. Get Ready for the NCLEX-PN Examination! sections at the end of chapters include key points, review questions, and case studies that address the various NCLEX Client Needs categories. NEW! Continued emphasis on evidence-based practice and the most current research findings include specific examples of how scientific evidence can justify and support patient care. NEW! Updated nursing diagnoses all reflect the most current NANDA listings for NCLEX compliance.
Download or read book Improving the Quality of Long Term Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers. Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people follow in long term care? The committee provides the latest information on these and other key questions. This book explores strengths and limitations of available data and research literature especially for settings other than nursing homes, on methods to measure, oversee, and improve the quality of long-term care. The committee makes recommendations on setting and enforcing standards of care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, reimbursement issues, and expanding the knowledge base to guide organizational and individual caregivers in improving the quality of care.
Download or read book Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-02-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more people live longer, the need for quality long-term care for the elderly will increase dramatically. This volume examines the current system of nursing home regulations, and proposes an overhaul to better provide for those confined to such facilities. It determines the need for regulations, and concludes that the present regulatory system is inadequate, stating that what is needed is not more regulation, but better regulation. This long-anticipated study provides a wealth of useful background information, in-depth study, and discussion for nursing home administrators, students, and teachers in the health care field; professionals involved in caring for the elderly; and geriatric specialists.
Download or read book Long term Care for the Elderly in Europe written by Bent Greve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term care is an increasingly important issue in many contemporary welfare states around the globe given ageing populations. This ground-breaking book provides detailed case studies of 11 EU-member states’ welfare regimes within Europe to show how welfare states organize, structures and deliver long-term care and whether there is a social investment perspective in the delivery of long-term care. This perspective is important because the effect of demographic transitions is often used as an argument for the existence of economic pressure on welfare states and a need for either direct retrenchment or attempts to reduce welfare state spending. The book’s chapters will look specifically into how different welfare states have focussed on long-term care in recent years and what type of changes have taken place with regard to ageing populations and ambitions to curb increases in public sector spending in this area. They describe the development in long-term care for the elderly after the financial crisis and also discuss the boundaries between state and civil society in the different welfare states' approaches to the delivery of care.
Download or read book Medical Surgical Nursing E Book written by Adrianne Dill Linton and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain the knowledge and skills you need to effectively care for adult patients. Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition covers both medical-surgical and psychiatric mental health conditions and disorders while building on the fundamentals of nursing. This essential text focuses on nursing roles, settings, trends, body systems and their disorders, and emergency and disaster management. Unique to this edition is the gerontologic nursing unit which addresses physiologic and psychosocial changes in the older adult, along with related disorders common to the elder patient - the primary patient group population you'll encounter in practice. It also emphasizes culturally competent care and holistic nursing, while thoroughly covering all relevant NCLEX-PN® test plan content. With updated guidelines on diabetes, heart failure, asthma, COPD, and cancer treatment protocols, no other resource offers the breadth of topics at a level that is so perfectly tailored to the LPN/LVN student. - UNIQUE! Gerontologic nursing unit covers physiologic and psychosocial changes in the older adult, along with related disorders common to the elder patient, the primary patient group for whom LPNs provide care. - UNIQUE! In-depth pharmacology coverage includes: the Pharmacology Tutorial covering drug classifications, how drugs work, and nursing responsibilities; Pharmacology Capsules boxes providing medication information, precautions for use, interactions, and side/adverse effects; and Pharmacology and Medications tables including classification, use/action, side/adverse effects, and nursing interventions. - Nursing care plans reinforce the nursing process and focus on critical thinking. - Get Ready for the NCLEX-PN® Examination! sections at the end of chapters include key points, review questions, and case studies that address the various NCLEX® Client Needs categories. - Coordinated Care boxes highlight team approach to patient care, helping you to prioritize tasks and assign them safely to assistive personnel. - Patient Teaching Plans provide bulleted lists of nursing instructions for patients, stressing the role and responsibility of the LPN/LVN to reinforce patient education. - Health Promotion Considerations boxes highlight timely wellness and disease prevention topics. - Cultural Considerations boxes discuss the importance of providing culturally competent care related to various clinical situations. - Put on Your Thinking Cap boxes allow you to pause and consider the practical implications of what you have just read. - Nutritional Considerations boxes are spotlighted at appropriate points throughout the text to emphasize the role that nutrition plays in disease and nursing care. - Complementary and Alternative Therapies focus on nontraditional therapies along with precautions and possible side effects. - Key terms with phonetic pronunciations help improve terminology and language skills of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students and students with limited proficiency in English before they enter clinical practice.
Download or read book Dependence and Autonomy in Old Age written by George Agich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Respecting the autonomy of disabled people is an important ethical issue for providers of long-term care. In this influential book, George Agich abandons comfortable abstractions to reveal the concrete threats to personal autonomy in this setting, where ethical conflict, dilemma and tragedy are inescapable. He argues that liberal accounts of autonomy and individual rights are insufficient, and offers an account of autonomy that matches the realities of long-term care. The book therefore offers a framework for carers to develop an ethic of long-term care within the complex environment in which many dependent and aged people find themselves. Previously published as Autonomy and Long-term Care, this revised edition, in paperback for the first time, takes account of recent work and develops the author's views of what autonomy means in the real world. It will have wide appeal among bioethicists and health care professionals.
Download or read book Autonomy in Assisted Living written by Claudia E. Oakes and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Medical Surgical Nursing E Book written by Adrianne Dill Linton and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With just the right level of information to equip you to effectively care for adults and older adults, Linton's Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, 5th Edition is the leading LPN/LVN text in its field. Covering both med-surg and psychiatric mental health conditions and disorders, it addresses your role in a variety of care settings, emphasizes culturally competent care and holistic nursing, and thoroughly covers all relevant NCLEX-PN Test Plan content. Abundant real-life case studies clearly show how to apply what you've learned to clinical practice. Features separate chapters on common, high-profile disorders (including hypertension, diabetes, and shock), providing an in-depth understanding for patient care. Offers foundational units on basic concepts related to the health care system, care settings, the nursing process, leadership, nutrition, the older adult, growth and nutrition, legal/ethical considerations, evidence-based nursing care, and many more essential topics, avoiding repetition later in the text Includes a separate, comprehensive unit on the older adult and related disorders — no other LPN/LVN med-surg text has as much coverage of this primary patient group. Includes a separate, comprehensive unit on psychosocial responses to illness, psychiatric disorders, and substance abuse — eliminating the need for a separate psychiatric mental health nursing text. Emphasizes content related to the NCLEX-PN Test Plan, including health promotion, nutrition, legal/ethical issues, HIPAA, and prevention of medication/medical errors. Offers in-depth pharmacology coverage: the Pharmacology Tutorial covers drug classifications, how drugs work, and nursing responsibilities; Pharmacology Capsules boxes provide medication information, precautions for use, interactions, and side/adverse effects; and Pharmacology and Medications tables in body systems chapters include classification, use/action, side/adverse effects, and nursing interventions — all with the goal of reducing medication errors on the job and equipping you to pass the NCLEX exam. Assists with assignment and supervision, helping you assign tasks to nurse assistants, patient care techs, and unlicensed assistive personnel, and making sure you understand the difference between delegation, management, supervision, and assignment of tasks on the health care team. Features Diagnostic Tests and Procedures tables for a quick reference to MRI, CT, Doppler flow, lumbar puncture tests for neurologic disorders, and much more. Highlights timely information with Health Promotion boxes, Cultural Considerations boxes, Nutrition Considerations boxes, and Complementary and Alternative Therapies boxes. Provides bulleted lists of nursing instructions for Patient Teaching Plans, stressing the role and responsibility of the LPN/LVN to reinforce patient education. Provides consistent Nursing Care Plans that reinforce the nursing process and focus on critical thinking, and Put on Your Thinking Cap Critical Thinking boxes encourage you to pause and consider the practical implications of what you have just read.
Download or read book A Phenomenological Exploration of Autonomy and Related Psychological Needs Among the Residents of a Memory Care Unit written by Mary Zagari Kampf MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The population of persons 65 years or older is the fastest growing age demographic in the United States. The number of older adults will continue to increase, as will the number who suffer from dementia. This rapidly growing population of older adults with dementia will challenge our healthcare system to provide quality long term residential care while maintaining patients' dignity, independence, and autonomy. The purpose of this study is to examine experiences of autonomy and other related psychological needs from the perspective of older adults who reside in a memory care unit of an assisted living facility. Autonomy is associated with better health outcomes and quality of life (Williams, McGregor, King, Nelson, & Glasgow, 2005), yet little is known as to how it is experienced by older adults with dementia. Previous literature has focused solely on the benefit of autonomy and its contribution to greatly improving quality of life (Hellstrom& Sarvimaki, 2007). However, lacking in the literature are the perceptions of individuals with dementia whose autonomy and related psychological needs may be constrained for the purposes of safety and other pragmatics within a residential care setting. Exploring how autonomy and related psychological needs are experienced by those residing in a memory care unit will not only provide an understanding of this phenomenon, but also an insight into best practices in care for this population. The theoretical framework of Self- Determination Theory (SDT), particularly the Basic Psychological Needs mini-theory by Ryan and Deci (2000) served as a sensitizing framework for this qualitative descriptive study, which used phenomenological interviewing as an analytical tool. As a result of this study, it is more clearly understood that autonomy and competence needs are powerful psychological needs despite fading memory and that reality is shaped and constructed by these individuals in order to retain these needs. A central finding of this study was the importance of allowing as much autonomy as possible within the scope of ones' capabilities. The five central themes which emerged were; Autonomy: Real and Imagined, Implicit Belief of Competence, A Preference for Routine and Comfort, Nuanced Relatedness and Dealing with the Neurophysiological Effects of Dementia. Additionally, these psychological constructs underscored selfidentity and selfhood for the participants of this study. By providing valuable insight into this population's needs as a whole, training and education necessary within healthcare services would become more tailored leading to the implementation of a truly personcentered care approach in serving those with dementia."--Pages x-xi.
Download or read book Families Caring for an Aging America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Housing Second Edition written by Andrew T. Carswell and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 1308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since publication of the groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Housing in 1998, many issues have assumed special prominence within this field and, indeed, within the global economy. For instance, the global economic meltdown was spurred in large part by the worst subprime mortgage crisis we′ve seen in our history. On a more positive note, the sustainability movement and "green" development has picked up considerable steam and, given the priorities and initiatives of the current U.S. administration, this will only grow in importance, and increased attention has been given in recent years to the topic of indoor air quality. Within the past decade, as well, the Baby Boom Generation began its march into retirement and senior citizenship, which will have increasingly broad implications for retirement communities and housing, assisted living facilities, aging in place, livable communities, universal design, and the like. Finally, within the last twelve years an emerging generation of young scholars has been making significant contributions to the field. For all these reasons and more, we are pleased to present a significantly updated and expanded Second Edition of the Encyclopedia of Housing.
Download or read book Person centred Dementia Care written by Dawn Brooker and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining the four key areas of person-centred care for people with dementia, Dawn Brooker provides a fresh definition to the important ideas that underpin the implementation and practice of dealing with this issue.
Download or read book Power and Autonomy in the Nursing Home written by Mary Lindsey Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with all organizations, nursing homes have an internal hierarchy that guides decision-making practices and policies. Nursing assistants (NAs) are positioned at the bottom of the hierarchy. They are generally the last nursing home employees to be solicited for input regarding practices and the last to learn about mandated policies created by upper level management. Consequently, they have the most limited amount of power compared to other staff. The one group of people that is impacted by all levels of the hierarchy and generally positioned at the bottom of all power relations in long-term care is nursing home residents. Residents' daily life is directly influenced by nursing policies and practices, staff shortages, staff's ability to provide timely care, and staff's opinions about what type of care residents should receive. This dissertation is a compilation of three publishable manuscripts that describe the balance of power and hierarchy within the nursing home. Data were collected through observations and interviews with NAs in long-term care settings at one Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC). All data were analyzed using grounded theory. Nursing homes are slowly shifting from a paternalistic medical model to a biopsychosocial model of care that promotes quality of life and autonomy. Unfortunately, the current conceptualizations of autonomy are not appropriate for long-term care settings. Without a cohesive framework for autonomy in long-term care, nursing home staff are apt to continue their approach to daily care consistent with a paternalistic, medical model of care. Therefore, the aim of the first paper is to present an applied conceptual framework for "everyday autonomy" in the nursing home. Additionally, a decisional framework is presented to assist NAs in determining what degree of resident autonomy to support. Within the framework of everyday autonomy, NAs are challenged to explore ways to support resident autonomy. The purpose of the second paper is to describe how NAs can support resident autonomy in long-term care. Through observations and interviews with NAs, ten autonomy-supportive approaches were identified. Suggestions for future research are presented. Several barriers to successful recruitment emerged during this study. The purposes of the final paper presented in this dissertation are to describe my recruitment process in detail, present challenges to recruitment, and reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of my recruitment strategies. Additionally, I summarize the characteristics of NAs in relation to power and hypothesize links between these characteristics and barriers to recruitment of the NA population. Finally, I propose possible strategies for effective recruitment of NAs for research in long-term care settings.
Download or read book Autonomy and Long term Care written by George J. Agich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The realities and misconceptions of long-term care and the challenges it presents for the ethics of autonomy are analyzed in this perceptive work. While defending the concept of autonomy, the author argues that the standard view of autonomy as non-interference and independence has only a limited applicability for long-term care. He explains that autonomy should be understood as a comprehensiveness that defines the overall course of a person's life rather than as a way of responding to an isolated situation. Agich distinguishes actual and ideal autonomy and argues that actual autonomy is better revealed in the everyday experiences of long-term care than in dramatic, conflict-ridden paradigm situations such as decisions to institutionalize, to initiate aggressive treatments, or to withhold or to withdraw life-sustaining treatments. Through a phenomenological analysis of long-term care, he develops an ethical framework for it by showing how autonomy is actually manifest in certain structural features of the social world of long-term care. Throughout this timely work, the rich sociological and anthropological literature on aging and long-term care is referenced and the practical ethical questions of promoting and enhancing the exercise of autonomy are addressed.
Download or read book Designing Technology Training for Older Adults in Continuing Care Retirement Communities written by Shelia R. Cotten and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the latest research and design-based recommendations for how to design and implement a technology training program for older adults in Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs). The approach in the book concentrates on providing useful best practices for CCRC owners, CEOs, activity directors, as well as practitioners and system designers working with older adults to enhance their quality of life. Educators studying older adults will also find this book useful Although the guidelines are couched in the context of CCRCs, the book will have broader-based implications for training older adults on how to use computers, tablets, and other technologies.
Download or read book Maintaining and Enhancing the Autonomy of Nursing Home Residents with Physical Impairments written by Jolande van Loon and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
