PURPOSE Almost half of people age 85 and older who die annually in the United States die as nursing home residents, yet because it is not always clear who is close to death, not all residents who might benefit from end-of-life care receive it. The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for organizing social interactions related to end-of-life care and to characterize the social constru...

INTRODUCTION At present, 7.2% of the population in Singapore is in the geriatric age group, which will increase to 18.4% in the year 2030. The frailest segment of the geriatric population live in nursing homes. They suffer from multiple co-morbidities requiring multiple medication use. Polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use have been considered as quality indicators for nursing home care...

This study analyzed what nurses wrote in narrative nursing notes for nursing outcome of cardiac-surgery patients. The nursing notes of 46 patients were decomposed into phrases and analyzed based on the nursing process. Eight patterns were extracted according to different combinations of nursing-process components, of which 29.2% have nursing outcome phrases. The content of the nursing notes was...

BACKGROUND Antipsychotic medications are routinely prescribed in nursing homes to address the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. Unfortunately, inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medications is common and associated with increased morbidity, adverse drug events, and hospitalizations. Multifaceted interventions can achieve a 12-20 % reduction in antipsychotic prescribing ...

i am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the persian language journals with specific english-language ones. our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petroleum geology, engineering geo...

We studied the effects of lower extremity strength as well as gait and balance on the occurrence of falls in nursing home residents. Nursing home residents with a history of falls had less than half of the knee and ankle strength of nonfalling subjects residing in the same home. The differences were more prominent at the ankle than the knee, and were most pronounced in the ankle dorsiflexors, w...

background: the inappropriate use of handouts and notes is a common academic problem among students. students' notes are too brief and incomplete in compare with references; hence they may not cover the required content for the courses. the aim of this paper is to analyze students' attitude toward reading handouts and notes instead of references. methods: in this analytical and descri...

As a historical era, postmodernism signifies transition from inflexible and logical positivism and entry into a new view to science. Postmodernism offers a number of nursing practice revise that including humanism, conditions, and borderless, multi-voice, view, and multicultural world, changes in meaning of knowledge, and life-long learning. Demographic changes, technological advances, ethnic a...

The use of complementary alternative medicine in pediatric populations is considerably increased. There are various reasons for the growing use of complementary and alternative medicine. Many complementary health products and practices aren’t tested for safety or effectiveness in children. It’s important to note that children may react differently than adults do to these approaches. Therefore, ...

Televised medical dramas often fail to include the nursing role in resolution of ethical dilemmas. Since the nursing role is portrayed inaccurately, excerpts from these dramas should not be included in the educational setting. Doing so would damage understanding between the health professions by wrongly sustaining physicians’ beliefs that they are the sole decision-makers in health care and by ...