[PDF] Top 20 When a Nursing Home Is Home: How Do Canadian Nursing Homes Measure Up on Quality?

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... of quality improvement to all nursing home staff, including direct care staff, is another common challenge to implementing quality improve- ment projects in nursing ...Certified ... See full document

... to nursing homes in ...to nursing homes in other states with some ...unmeasured nursing home and market ...traditional nursing home quality ...a ... See full document

... of quality cutting in the market for nursing ...high quality even for dimensions that are hard to contract or to observe, as it strengthens their reputation and sales in the long ...in nursing ... See full document

... OF QUALITY OF DEATH IN THE NURSING HOME Rebecca ...Understanding quality of death in the nursing home is mandated both by demographics and morality in an aging ...society. ... See full document

... of nursing home quality indicators that require additional ...generation quality indicators are ultimately measures of aggregate clinical state or course of a facility's ...such, ... See full document

... Construct validity deals with the accuracy of measurement, reflecting the extent to which a set of measured indicators actually reflect the theoretical latent construct the items are designed to measure [94]. In ... See full document

... Antonovsky [7,8] examined health-promoting factors in his salutogenic model and developed the concept of sense of coherence (SOC) to explain why some people become ill when stressed while others remain healthy. ... See full document

... of Peters et al. [22] are not present in the domains of our review. One explanation for this may be the studies are carried out in different settings. Furthermore, the in- volvement of the general practitioner in ... See full document

... of nursing home staff that could affect the process of delivering quality of care and the organisation ...on nursing home staff turnover in ...the nursing home industry, ... See full document

... role nursing home managers’ play in setting the culture of ...programme, nursing home managers are supported to integrate the eight best practice themes (identified in Table 1) into the ... See full document

... the Measure of Job Satisfaction [13], to name just a ...of quality assurance and regulations; however, the unskilled workers that constitute a vast majority of the workforce may be more concerned with ... See full document

... in nursing homes, and in particular very few cluster RCTs [3], we contribute to filling this gap by planning and designing this proposed study according to recent recom- mendations in the conduct of ... See full document

... by nursing homes participating in the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative to successfully reduce the use of inappropriate antipsychotic drug ...use. Nursing ... See full document

... most nursing home care is to support people to maintain a decent quality of life for as long as possible, rather than to provide rehabilitation (which will normally have been addressed before ... See full document

... of nursing home organizations. Quality improvements in the nursing homes’ culture could be seen as a means to achieve quality of care and quality of life for ... See full document

... for nursing home man- agers and one for residents) were developed and piloted with appropriate representative samples in advance of the main ...the nursing home man- ager questionnaire ... See full document

... for nursing home man- agers and one for residents) were developed and piloted with appropriate representative samples in advance of the main ...the nursing home man- ager questionnaire ... See full document

... (VAMC) nursing home (Bassim, Gibson, Ward, Paphides, & DeNuccie, 2008) where oral care aides were assigned to two of the four NH ...setting up, encouraging and monitoring ... See full document