Provide a profile of the typical nursing home resident. How is this profile likely to change in the future and why?
One established fact about older adults is that in general they are living longer and healthier lives. There has also been an increasing availability of alternatives to nursing facilities (e.g., assisted living) and an increased use of community-based services (e.g., home health care), with the result that the profile of the "typical" nursing facility resident has changed in significant ways since 1985. There are now three older women for every older man in nursing facilities. This ratio has not changed since 1985, but the percentage of white residents declined from 93 percent in 1985 to 89 percent in 1997. It is very common for women to be widowed at the time of admission. Persons sixty-five years and older using a nursing facility in 1997 had an average age at admission of 82.6 compared to 81.1 in 1985. A common approach used by health care providers to measure functional ability in older adults is activities of daily living (ADLs). This method consists of measuring changes in the person's ability to perform six ADLs. ADLs include such functions as bathing, dressing, and eating. The mean number of ADLs that nursing facility residents experienced difficulty in increased from 3.8 in 1985 to 4.4 in 1997 (Sahyoun et al.; Wunderlich and Kohler). The four ADLs that nursing facility residents receive the most assistance with are bathing (96 percent of residents), dressing (87 percent), toileting (56 percent), and eating (45 percent). Approximately 50 percent of nursing facility residents are over the age of 85. Because of these increases in levels of disability (which have lead to much higher levels of frailty) and the trend towards entering the facility later, operational and clinical challenges have increased for administration and staff, who now must care for sicker, frailer residents with more complex medical problems. These changes have occurred in the context of an "increased use of preadmission screening, expanded role of Medicaid home and community-based waivers, the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid managed care programs, the general trend toward prospective payment, and more rapid discharges from hospitals" . As a result, "the services that were once provided in the hospital setting are now more frequently available in the nursing home setting; assisted living environments are starting to provide nursing care; and home health agencies deliver services that were once available only in acute care environments or nursing homes"
Provide a profile of the typical nursing home resident. How is this profile likely to change...
The nursing assistant has to change the bed of a resident who was incontinent of diarrhea in bed. The resident got up and did not say anything to anyone about the diarrhea. Her daughter found it when visiting and was putting something away in the resident's room. The daughter requested that the nursing assistant change the bed linens. 1. What is the best way for the nursing assistant to handle clean and soiled linens in a way that prevents the...
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The resident requests some assistance from the nursing assistant with grooming and bathing because the resident is not feeling strong enough to complete the task unassisted. The nursing assistant helps the resident with a hair wash, foot care, and getting the resident's glasses and hearing aid on 1. Why is it important for the nursing assistant to respect the resident's preferences with regard to grooming habits, and how can assisting with grooming benefit the resident emotionally? 2. While completing foot...
An elderly nursing home resident has poor skin turgor, dry mucous membranes, and very concentrated urine. The best directions for the nurse to give to the nursing assistant include: (Select all that apply.) Make sure the client eats everything served at each meal. Offer small amounts of fluids frequently during the day. Provide good oral hygiene. Identify the beverages that the person prefers. Keep a large container of iced water in the person's room. Give the client hard candy to...
An 82 year old nursing home resident with moderate dementia treats her doll like a real baby and calls it her baby daughter, Susie.
conditions 1.B Reflective Short-Answer Exercises Steve just started working in a nursing home. His previous job was as a personal care worker at an assisted-living facility. Even though he is comfortable caring for residents, he finds working at the new facility challenging and often confusing. 1. How are nursing homes and assisted-living facilities different from each other? Is that nursing home provide medical and personal care in a clinical Setting, while assisted living primarily provide personal Care in a home....
Nursing Home Compare Portal Assignment #3 Nursing Home Compare Portal Medicare has a public database that allows anyone to review several criteria on nursing homes that accept Medicare. Almost all nursing homes do. The Federal Medicare Program and state sponsored Medicaid programs pay the largest portion of nursing home costs. Thoroughly review the Nursing Home Compare Portal. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html Part l: Responsibilities and Rights Use the links on the Nursing Home Compare page to access the information needed to respond to...
PROVIDE THE APPROPRIATE ICD 10 CODE. MAKE SURE IT IS ICD 10. A skilled nursing resident who is ventilator dependent was diagnosed with ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) after a left-sided infiltrate was found in the lung. FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Staphylococcus aureus VAP
Describe and discuss how a typical board of trustees can lower their risk profile.
Name: What could Steve have done on his first day at the nursing home to make the transition easier LC Fill in the blanks using terms found in the word bank. Omnibus Reconciliation Act, dying, refuse, scope of practice, chain of command, document, nurse aide registry, provide personal care, home health aides, work ethle, acute care, respectful, reinforce, Medicare, hospice, home care n ce Part of your responsibility as the nursing assistant is to understand your lour Scoreo u _what...