Nursing Adults with Complex Needs Chronically ill adults’ educational needs on self-medication The patient chosen for this essay is a sixty year old man. This patient was one of the palliative care patients that the team of district nurses I was allocated to work with in my community placement care for. The patient has terminal liver cancer. The patient lives with his wife whom is his main carer. The district nurses had to visit him every day of the week. The patient had a syringe driver on situ
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The Challenges of a Nursing Home Administrator During an Acquisition Judith Young-Bird HCS/320 – Health Care Communication Strategies July 21‚ 2014 Kelly Hernandez The Challenges of a Nursing Home Administrator During an Acquisition With the downturn of the economy‚ in recent years‚ it is an opportune time for companies to acquire businesses that are suffering. Unfortunately‚ healthcare facilities that assist long-term care patients fall victim to this misfortune in time. According to "Longtermcare
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Prescription Abuse Seen In U.S. Nursing Homes Powerful Antipsychotics Used to Subdue Elderly; Huge Medicaid Expense By LUCETTE LAGNADO December 4‚ 2007; Page A1 In recent years‚ Medicaid has spent more money on antipsychotic drugs for Americans than on any other class of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics‚ AIDS drugs or medicine to treat highblood pressure. One reason: Nursing homes across the U.S. are giving these drugs to elderly patients to quiet symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and
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1. What trend in citations do you find for this nursing home or home care agency? In the last three years‚ the nursing home occurred several violations and some repeated over a course of the three years upon inspection. The inspectors report uncovered deficiencies in the quality of care‚ resident assessment and their rights‚ along with nutrition and dietary‚ pharmacy services environment and administration. 2. What causes do you think led to the identification of deficient practices cited here
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Nursing Home: Hope Healthcare Center Location/Address of facility: 38410 Cherry Hill Rd Westland Michigan 48185 Director’s Name: Linda Hamstra Overview: Differently than most of the students in class‚ I was welcomed by Hope Healthcare to visit the facilitly. I had explained I was a student of Central Michigan University and would like to come for a visit for observations and they scheduled an appointment during the phone call. Physical Layout: Single story facility with 142 certified
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1. What trend in citations do you find in this nursing home or home care agency? In the last three years‚ the nursing home occurred several violations with some violations being repetitive over the three years upon inspection. The inspectors report deficiencies in the quality of care‚ resident assessment. and their rights. This includes nutrition and diet‚ pharmacy services‚ environment and administration. 2. What causes do you think led to the identification of deficient practices cited here
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leads to a feeling of isolation. The isolation felt by nursing home residents may lead to a feeling of hopelessness. Hopelessness perceived by residents in a nursing home may be due to several factors. Individuals perceive failure in the areas such as coping or problem-solving. (Bahr & Brown‚ 2012‚ p. 117). Nursing home residents may perceive failure when it comes to problem-solving for reasons such as a lack of autonomy. Many nursing home residents dismiss their feelings of hopelessness for he
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Often people look at nursing homes as a place where older adults go to live out their final days‚ I honestly believe this is the way society perceives nursing homes because of how older adults were cared for in the past. According to the book Community Care for an aging society. “Since the colonial period‚ the primary provider for the care of the elderly adults has been family.” (pg.42) (Cox) An older adult having to go to a nursing home does not necessarily mean that they are going there to live
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Abraham Maslow. Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was born in Brooklyn‚ New York‚ the son of poor Russian immigrant parents. One of seven children‚ he was openly rejected by his mother in favor of his younger brothers and sisters. Maslow’s father was rarely at home and was known for drinking‚ fighting‚ and womanizing. Maslow described feelings of anger and hostility toward his father‚ but his relationship with his mother was far worse (Schultz and Schultz‚ 2012‚ p.320). Maslow’s mother punished him frequently
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The demographic information on the nursing home on a macro level The quality of life of older adults in a nursing home is challenging. It has many different aspects and it also depends on the need of the person. Some of those characteristics are control by elderly people who are being placed in the nursing home‚ if they are well enough to comprehend what is going on. Older people are placed in nursing homes for different reasons‚ for example‚ it could be simply because people are too old to take
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