Resident Vignettes for Assessing Care Quality in Nursing Homes

Regulation and mindful resident care in nursing homes.

Regulatory oversight is intended to improve the health outcomes of nursing home residents, yet evidence suggests that regulations can inhibit mindful staff behaviors that are associated with effective care. We explored the influence of regulations on mindful staff behavior as it relates to resident health outcomes, and offer a theoretical explanation of why regulations sometimes enhance mindful...

Assessing quality of nursing care.

In parallel with developments in medicine much has been written in the nursing press, particularly over the past few years, on quality assurance and audit. In nursing early approaches focused on broad, proselytising statements about the nature of nursing, why quality was often not achieved, and the changes required.'1 Later, nursing practice was compared with pre-formulated standards and criter...

Quality management and quality of care in nursing homes.

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to study the appropriateness of applying "manufacturing sector" quality management strategies to residential care homes sector and to analyze its influence on the quality of care. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Observation and in-depth interviews were conducted with 41 Spanish care home top and middle managers, consultants and employees. FINDINGS The qualit...

Assessing Quality of Care and Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes via Google Reviews

BACKGROUND It is challenging to assess the quality of care and detect elder abuse in nursing homes, since patients may be incapable of reporting quality issues or abuse themselves, and resources for sending inspectors are limited. OBJECTIVE This study correlates Google reviews of nursing homes with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) inspection results in the Nursing Home Compare...

Teams and Quality of Care in Nursing Homes