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Critics talking 'arrant nonsense'
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Caring Times, March 1997, p.6.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reports on how plans by health and social services in Cambridgeshire to delegate more nursing tasks to unqualified staff has prompted deep disquiet among some nursing home providers.
Changing institutional culture: can we re-value the nursing home?
- Author:
- RONCH Judah L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 43(1), 2004, pp.61-83.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The struggle to improve the quality of life for older people in nursing homes has a long history, and yet little has been achieved. Humanization of nursing homes and changing the culture of care remain elusive goals in many, if not most, homes. A re-valued culture is proposed, and steps necessary to the process are delineated. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
The great care fiasco
- Author:
- CLEMENT Luke
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.5.03, 2003, pp.40-42.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the confusion which exists over continuing care and argues that the NHS and the Department of Health are diluting the NHS's responsibilities. The author discusses the Coughlan judgement and is critical of the resulting guidance from the Department of Health, also argues that the Department of Health guidance on free nursing care has undermined this care entitlement.
Report of the chief nursing officer for Scotland's group on free nursing care
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 33p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This document sets out the Chief Nursing Officer's (CNO) work to provide free nursing care. It was decided that the CNO should concentrate on the provision of free nursing care in nursing homes. Two sub-groups were formed from the Stakeholders’ Group with the ability to bring in people with relevant knowledge and expertise if required. The Assessment of Need and Financial Framework Subgroups each met 4 times, reporting to the Stakeholders’ Group when it met in November and December. This report describes the outcome of those meetings. It discusses the areas covered by each of the groups; the conclusions reached about how the provision of free nursing care should be progressed, and makes recommendations on the implementation of the assessment of need and financial framework.
Guidance on free nursing care in nursing homes
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This circular advises on: the NHS' responsibilities for arranging care by a registered nurse for some people in nursing homes from 1 October 2001; the arrangements for transferring responsibility from councils to the NHS from 1 April 2003 for the care by a registered nurse of nursing home residents; and the arrangements for the care by a registered nurse of nursing home residents with preserved rights to higher rates of income support, whose residential care management and nursing care will be transferred to councils from 8 April 2002 and whose nursing care will become an NHS responsibility from 1 April 2003.
Free nursing care: do the sums add up
- Author:
- PEARCE Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.10.01, 2001, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The arrival of free nursing care in England has brought with it fears that the funding pot will need a fair amount of topping up. Checks the figures.
Long-term prospects
- Author:
- WILLIS Jenine
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.4.96, 1996, pp.70-72.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
As nurses lobby to ensure that older people's needs remain recognised as free 'health' needs rather than means-tested 'social' ones, looks at the contribution nurses currently make to the care of this important client group.
A scandal waiting to happen: elderly people and nursing care in residential and nursing homes
- Author:
- ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paper outlining concerns that the nursing needs of older people in residential and nursing homes are not being properly met, and that changes brought about by the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 in April 1993 will not rectify this situation.
Design and Implementation of a Skilled Nursing Facility COVID-19 Unit
- Authors:
- VERDOORN Brandon P., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 22(5), 2021, pp.971-973.e1.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier (for the American Medical Directors Association)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has challenged the healthcare system’s capacity to care for acutely ill patients. In a collaborative partnership between a health system and a skilled nursing facility (SNF), the researchers developed and implemented a SNF COVID-19 unit to allow expedited hospital discharge of COVID-positive older adults who are clinically improving, and to provide an alternative to hospitalization for those who require SNF care but do not require or necessarily desire aggressive disease-modifying interventions. (Edited publisher abstract)
Factors associated with and impact of burnout in nursing and residential home care workers for the elderly
- Authors:
- HARRAD R., SULLA F.
- Journal article citation:
- Acta BioMedica, 89(7S), 2018, pp.60-69.
- Publisher:
- Mattioli 1885
- Place of publication:
- Italy
Background and aim of the work: Numbers of elderly people worldwide continue to grow. Increasingly these individuals require nursing and residential care to meet their needs. Nursing is an occupation associated with burnout amongst its workforce, associated with increases of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and decreases in personal accomplishment. This review of literature provides a more detailed picture of the associations and predictors of burnout within this setting, and also considers the implications this holds for patient care, before providing recommendations for managers of such settings. Methods: Literature searches were conducted across a range of academic databases with a series of relevant keywords. Results: Examination of search results suggested several factors relating to staff burnout including occupational aspects, types of setting, staff perceptions, coping strategies, education and training and the impact of burnout on care delivery. Conclusions: Studies from across the globe suggest that burnout is prevalent amongst staff working in nursing and residential homes caring for elderly people, with implications for the patients, staff and homecare providers. Factors associated with burnout appear to include perceptions of job stress and occupational aspects, as well as the types of coping mechanisms staff employ. Managing grief associated with death of patients at work, as well as staff perceptions of both clients and their illnesses also appear related to burnout as well as the specific type of healthcare setting. (Edited publisher abstract)