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Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Text, for nursing home administrators and educators, on preparing for licensure. Includes federal surveyors' most current guidelines and procedures. Previous edition: c1997. Expanded-outline format. Softcover. ... Read more

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Nursing Home Guidelines -an essential Survy Resourcee
This book provides an excellent overview of the federal Nursing Home Regulations and the Medicare survey process. It interprets regulations, provides insight into how surveys use the regulations to certify a nursing facility for Medicare, both inital and ongoing surveys. It provides Standards of Care aand interpretive guidelines. I highly recommend this text to any professional in Nursing home administration, legal nurse consultants working in this field, and nurse educators. ... Read more

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Designed specifically for the needs, preferences, and styles distinct to long-term care this OSHA Compliance Management: A Guide for Long-Term Health Care Facilities serves as an excellent working reference. It focuses on priorities and provides you with the background and tools vital to achieving OSHA compliance and inspection preparedness.In this user-friendly, practical, hands-on manual you get:oInspection preparedness briefing materials that provide you with last minute advice and activitiesoReal-life scenarios offering hands-on, practical advice and directions to minimize liabilityoComprehensive policies with built in flexibility for designing mandatory practices to best fit your organization's needsoSummary discussions give you a quick, concise overview of all the issues covered including historical significance, current developments, and cautionary notesoLong-term care documentation, recordkeeping, and management tools for streamlining activities and maximizing necessary expended effortsoStep-by-step instructions for conducting and documenting specific types of assessments and information necessary for strategic decision and policy makingoFlow charts, tables, and other materials containing long term care specific statistics and decision tree processesStreamline your organization's processes, save time and money, avoid liability, and improve safety management and performance. OSHA Compliance Management: A Guide for Long-Term Health Care Facilities gives you a headstart in achieving OSHA compliance and being prepared for OSHA inspections. ... Read more

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People with mid-stage dementia are served by special care units in long-term care facilities, although as these residents deteriorate, they are transferred out of the unit and into a general nursing home unit. These nursing homes are not equipped to deal with palliative needs of end-stage dementia care. The book addresses those needs. With this in mind, Part One examines the stages of dementia end-stage in particular. Other chapters in this section provide background on the hospice movement and hospice concepts; the idea of maintaining personhood; and administration of a late-stage care unit. Part Two focuses on treatment approaches for common needs in end-stage dementia - medical and physical care; a supportive environment; the fundamentals of care; psychopharmacology; and therapeutic activities. Part 3 contains chapters on family-centred care; legal and ethical issues; programme evaluation; and future opportunities. ... Read more

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A practical guide to programming in late stage dementia care
There are many books available about programming in the early and middle stages of dementia. This is the first book I've read about programming in the later stages of dementia. The author discusses the concept of the "dementia hospice." She takes the approach that people in end-stage dementia should be treated as human beings with feelings and needs that can be addressed and met.

I especially appreciated the section about the supportive environment. The environment seems to be a critical piece of the dementia care puzzle.

I recommend this book to anyone who cares for those with dementia. ... Read more

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Learn how to make your integrated delivery system profitable and capable of coordinating care along the continuum. This groundbreaking book will show you how and why placing home care center stage is critical to managing patients skillfully, cost effectively, and safely. Includes insight gleaned from the authors' experience with helping more than 40 hospitals build, develop, and strengthen the home care component of their integrated delivery systems. You will learn specific, practical techniques for: * Coordinating clinical care * Facilitating communication across the system * Measuring performance * Controlling costs * Enhancing revenue * Partnering with physicians ... Read more

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This important text is designed to provide home care aides with the training in addition to basic education necessary to care for clients who have had a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). The text focuses on the unique health care needs of this population to optimize client care. It includes an overview of CVA, a general review of anatomy and physiology, major physical losses associated with a CVA, and discussion of interdisciplinary teams and rehabilitation equipment. The specific roles and functions of the home care aide, especially observation, reporting, and recording information are stressed. The rehabilitation and restorative phase is reviewed. Safety and emergency procedures, abuse, and psycho-social influences are also addressed to provide readers with the information and skills they require to provide optimal care for this population of clients.(home care aides, cerebrovascular, CVA, home health aide, home health agency training, client, in-service training, infection control, restorative care, home care, home care training, home care in-service, homemaking services, home safety, managed care, cerebrovascular accident, AIDS) ... Read more

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Patients, Pain & Politics is a nursing home inspector's shocking true story. It is a fast read; you feel suspense, empathy for the patients and identification with the author as she struggles with corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, to do her job. It is a story of greed, graft, blackmail and inhuman attitudes and treatment. It is also a story of courage. There are really two crimes portrayed in this book. The first involves the terrible abuse of patients and infractions of laws committed on a daily basis in nursing homes throughout our country. The second is the failure of the monitoring State Department of Health to do its job and the abuses of the powerful nursing home industry. Some of the examples in this book will literally turn your stomach; hopefully they will cause change to take place as the nation's nursing home population continues to grow. To some the nursing home is a haven, to others, a snake pit. Rollins acknowledges that there are many good nursing facilities giving kind and loving care. But there are too many that don't. The challenge is to know the difference. There is power in knowledge. Learn from an expert how to protect yourself and your loved ones. ... Read more

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Shocking story but I'm glad to know the truth
This is truly a lesson in what to expect should you become a patient in a nursing home. The truth is painful but better than ignorance. A great fast reading expose. ... Read more

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This comprehensive, readable introduction to medical-surgicalnursing is the best-selling medical-surgical text of all time!Meticulously revised and updated, this edition is the ultimate resourcefor meeting the nursing challenges in today's dynamic healthcareenvironment. Now presented in a vivid new four-color design, Textbookof Medical-Surgical Nursing offers an abundance of charts and displaysto enhance visual appeal and make information easily accessible. New inthe Eighth Edition: community-based nursing care, collaborativeproblems / critical thinking exercises, critical pathways, plus newchapters on Shock and Multisystem Failure, Chronic Illness, AIDS,Cultural Diversity, and Community-Based Nursing Care. ... Read more

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Exhaustive (Good) & Exhausting (Not-so-good)
I'm a recent graduate of a Registered Nursing program in which we used this textbook as our primary resource for Med-Surg information. I had a strong love/hate relationship with this textbook and I believe with a few revisions, it could be a truly outstanding piece of work.

First, THE GOOD: It is unarguably EXHAUSTIVE in the depth of information presented, thus it makes an excellent reference material. The explanations of diseases, disorders, treatments, and techniques are clear and concise, albeit very dense. Don't expect to be able to skim anything here - absolutely every word seems necessary, and no space is wasted. One can gain a great deal of confidence when one has absolute confidence in the validity of their textbook. Brunner & Suddarths projects that kind of reliability.

THE BAD: Such copious amounts of information require precise and meticulous organization, which Brunner & Suddarth's is lacking. Though it does not take away from the validity of the information, you might have some difficulty finding what you're looking for. More than once I noticed a disease or disorder's definition out of chronological order in the chapter, located well after the text had referred to it several times. (I was often feeling quite lost and stupid when the book would mention something I'd never seen before, only to define it 30 pages later. Once I discovered that pattern, I knew to dig for definitions before continuing my studies.) The index often seems incomplete, as I often found myself wandering for a passage I had been studying earlier, searching until I stumbled on the passcode-type keyword. Sometimes, there is no cross-reference in the index at all.

If you're a nursing student (first of all, GOOD LUCK! It's worth the trials!) or a RN who is looking for a great reference material for your profession, this textbook comes recommended. For most effective study, use it more like an encyclopedia than a standard text.

Smeltzer & Bare
I have really become very close to this book. The text is presented in a manner which makes it easily understandable. The content goes into ellaborate depth, leaving no unanswered questions. Well Done!

This is a great textbook for beginning nursing.
"This book is worded in a such a manner that even those who are just beginning their nursing careers can understand the concepts. The workbook that comes with the book also is a great companion for learning the information. I highly recommend this text for other nursing schools. It sure has been a great asset in my plethora of nursing textbooks." A student of Abilene Intercollegiate School of Nursing, Abilene, TX ... Read more

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Inside this comprehensive resource, youll find step-by-step guidelines for virtually every task your nursing department faces.From setting qualifications for a new Director of Nursing Services to scheduling dental clinic appointments.Establishing visiting hours to determining when to make a room change.Screening for tuberculosis to conducting a search for a missing resident.But Long-Term Care:Nursing Standards, Policies, and Procedures is much more than a simple how-to book.It also sets a tone that emphasizes quality outcomes.It sees the resident not as the recipient of bureaucratic fallout-but as the all-important focus on every nursing activity.This invaluable reference is an investment that will pay for itself many times overby saving you time, money, and the hassles and headaches of reinventing the wheel.Whats more, youll never have to worry about whether your recordkeeping meets Medicare standardsor whether your reporting practices are in line with CDC regulations.The author has methodically examined all applicable guidelines issued by these organizationsand by ANA, Joint Commission, Medicaid, OBRA, and OSHAto ensure compliance.For Orders and Inquiries, please call: 1-888-427-5800. ... Read more