Teaching Home Nursing in Indiana

Teaching and maintaining behavior management skills with nursing assistants in a nursing home.

This article describes a nursing staff training program in basic behavior management skills and a formal staff management system to encourage the application of these basic skills on the nursing unit. Behavioral skills training consists of a 5-hour in-service followed by three weeks of on-the-job training to ensure accurate application of behavior management skills. Following training, a staff ...

Volume of Home- and Community-Based Services and Time to Nursing-home placement among Indiana Medicaid Waiver Recipients with Dementia

Volume of Homeand Community-Based Services and Time to Nursing-Home Placement Laura P. Sands,1 Huiping Xu,2 Joseph Thomas III,1, 3 Sudeshna Paul,4 Bruce A. Craig,1 ,Marc Rosenman2 Caroline C. Doebbeling,5 Michael Weiner,2, 6, 7, 1Purdue University 2Indiana University School of Medicine 3Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering 4Harvard Medical School 5MDwise Hoosier, Indianapolis 6Indiana ...

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Teaching ethics in nursing.

Being a professional nurse requires ethical decision making and this in turn necessitates an effective learning process. The active participation of students in the teaching of ethics will contribute to this process. This study was conducted at Hacettepe University School of Nursing, Ankara, Turkey, to determine the views of students about the nursing ethics content in the curriculum, the exami...

Falls in the nursing home.

OBJECTIVE To review the epidemiology and causes of falls and fall-related injuries in nursing homes and to provide clinicians with a structured framework to evaluate and treat nursing home residents at risk for falls. DATA SOURCES All large-scale published studies documenting incidence, causes, risk factors, and preventive strategies for falls in nursing homes were reviewed. RESULTS The mea...