Culture Change In Nursing Home Essay
Citation
Miller S.C., Lepore M., Lima J.C., Shield R., & Tyler D.A. (2014). Does the Introduction of Nursing Home Culture Change Practices Improve Quality? The American Geriatrics Society, 62(9), 1675-1682.
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to determine whether or not the introduction of culture change practices is associated with improved quality in nursing homes.
Method
The researchers of this article used information and data from a larger, previous study. The larger study surveyed a random sample of nursing home administrators and nursing home directors of nursing in 4,149 U.S. nursing homes, between 2009 and 2011. The three areas of culture change covered in the survey include; nursing home physical environment, staff empowerment, and resident-centered care/resident decision making. The fully completed survey’s collected responses from 2,215 nursing home administrators and 2,164 nursing home directors of nursing. …show more content…
There was also a decrease in resident hospitalization and an increase in residents on bowel and bladder teaching programs.
The nursing homes practicing a low or no implementation of culture change experienced a significantly high level of residents with urinary tract infections and a slight increase in resident hospitalization. Higher levels of quality of life deficiencies were reported as well.
Discussion
The introduction of culture change in nursing homes proves to benefit quality improvements. These findings are significant to the future possibilities of health care delivery to the residents living in senior living facilities. Creating a schedule of culture change implementation in senior living facilities could improve the health and quality factors of the residents living there, as shown in the
Miller S.C., Lepore M., Lima J.C., Shield R., & Tyler D.A. (2014). Does the Introduction of Nursing Home Culture Change Practices Improve Quality? The American Geriatrics Society, 62(9), 1675-1682.
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to determine whether or not the introduction of culture change practices is associated with improved quality in nursing homes.
Method
The researchers of this article used information and data from a larger, previous study. The larger study surveyed a random sample of nursing home administrators and nursing home directors of nursing in 4,149 U.S. nursing homes, between 2009 and 2011. The three areas of culture change covered in the survey include; nursing home physical environment, staff empowerment, and resident-centered care/resident decision making. The fully completed survey’s collected responses from 2,215 nursing home administrators and 2,164 nursing home directors of nursing. …show more content…
There was also a decrease in resident hospitalization and an increase in residents on bowel and bladder teaching programs.
The nursing homes practicing a low or no implementation of culture change experienced a significantly high level of residents with urinary tract infections and a slight increase in resident hospitalization. Higher levels of quality of life deficiencies were reported as well.
Discussion
The introduction of culture change in nursing homes proves to benefit quality improvements. These findings are significant to the future possibilities of health care delivery to the residents living in senior living facilities. Creating a schedule of culture change implementation in senior living facilities could improve the health and quality factors of the residents living there, as shown in the