The Nursing Home Administrator Leslie K. Wood HCS/531 05/06/2013 Georgetta Baptist The Nursing Home Administrator The Nursing Home Administrator is the head of operations at a nursing home. The position requires licensure to practice in a state. Individual states have different requirements for licensure but generally people have proof of adequate education‚ experience‚ experience of guidance under preceptor. The licensure examination requirements covers basic topics
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University in the Health care department. I have got to see what facilities such as hospices‚ home health care‚ nursing homes and retirements homes all run and look like. This has allowed me to gain useful real world knowledge on how the real world is going to be and what I’m personally going to have to do in order to achieve my goals and succeed in running my own business. I am looking to go into the Home
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are paid for by their insurance company or the patient for the service that is rendered at that time. In the community where I live‚ the patient is charged for the ambulance service regardless if someone gets on the ambulance when they arrive at the home. But the service is always community based. This is how the ambulatory service is paid for rather than it getting paid for by our tax dollars. It also depends on the business‚ county‚ and state we live in each day. Services provided by the county
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1.4 million elderly people reside in long term care facilities‚ such as nursing homes. The families that admit their loved ones to these long term care facilities believe that excellent care is being provided to them. Many of the residents in nursing home settings receive adequate health care‚ but a numerous amount of other residents are subjected to abuse and neglect. It is believed that nearly one-third of all nursing homes have residents that are subjected to abuse either by staff or other residents
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Home Health Nursing Concern for health and wellness in the community has a substantial history in nursing. Home health‚ one component of community health nursing is rapidly growing due to the rising costs in health care. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the history of public health nursing‚ and the impact that home health has on the nursing practice. History of Public Health Nursing The concept of caring for the sick in the community was first introduced in 1601 when the Elizabeth Poor
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Insight At The Nursing Home As being an employee at a Nursing home facility I see hear and feel so much. The Nursing home is used for Rehab‚ Long Term Care and a Memory Care Unit which in some cases is called the lock down unit. There are definitely not enough nursing assistant/ nurse ratio to a resident‚ which means
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going to the lake for the day and fishing. Nobody really‚ truly thinks about what life is like when you can no longer take care of yourself. You will make it to that point eventually in your life‚ but nobody should think of moving into a retirement home as a bad thing! Things change with time‚ including these facilities. For instance‚ Chia-Hsiu Chang conducted a study investigating the effect on the resident’s satisfaction when bringing a visual art-based environment into the facility. He placed pictures
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approach retirement‚ federal and state policy‚ makers are exploring policies to care for the increasing number of elderly and to finance expanding long-term care needs. Other concerns include how to provide an adequate mix of institutional care and home and community-based services and how to monitor the quality of services delivered in these settings. Long term care refers to a wide range of supportive‚ medical‚ personal‚ and social services for people limited in their ability to function independently
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families leave the home for work every morning and returning later that evening. It is very difficult‚ if not almost impossible to care for their love ones who stay alone at home for so many hours. With this in mind‚ more and more families are finding themselves face to face with the most difficult decision of all and lots of questions‚ should they place their love ones in skilled nursing home or in an adult living facility and if so‚ what is the best option. Both‚ skilled nursing home (also known as
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Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1987; established regulations for nursing homes receiving federal funding that includes reimbursements from Medicare or Medicaid programs. It was signed by President Ronald Reagan‚ and it was the first major revision to the federal standards for nursing home care since the creation of both Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. This legislation changed the legal expectations of nursing homes and their care. If nursing homes do not comply with these regulations they cannot receive federal
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