Gaps in nurse staffing and nursing home resident needs

The catheter measure was the number of indwelling and external catheters per resident. Since the role of NAs in nursing homes is that of hygienic and basic care, the two measures for the need for NAs were the number of pressure sores and activities of daily living (ADL) needs per resident (Barry, Br...

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Published in:Nursing economic 2013-11, Vol.31 (6), p.289-297
Main Authors: Zhang, Ning Jackie, Unruh, Lynn, Wan, Thomas T.H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of daily living
Catheters
Forecasts and trends
Health aspects
Health care policy
Hospitals
Long term health care
Long-term care of the sick
Medicaid
Medicare
Nurses
Nursing care
Nursing homes
Older people
Practice
Pressure ulcers
Ratios
Regression analysis
Trends
Workforce planning
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Summary:The catheter measure was the number of indwelling and external catheters per resident. Since the role of NAs in nursing homes is that of hygienic and basic care, the two measures for the need for NAs were the number of pressure sores and activities of daily living (ADL) needs per resident (Barry, Brannon, & Mor, 2005; Howe, 2008). Improving the efficiency of nursing care delivery could offset these gaps, but so far there is little evidence-based ways to do this. [...]more efficient nursing care delivery exits, there may be no other way to safeguard quality except to increase nurse staffing in nursing homes.
ISSN:0746-1739