Nursing_Homes

Nursing Homes Nursing Homes are charged with providing quality care to all of their residents. They are monitored by the state and federal agencies for the type of care they are giving to patients. Nursing Home standards have been raised and a tool which identifies quality indicators was developed by HCFA to monitor nursing home residents care. Quality indicators are markers that point to either the presence or absence of potentially poor care practices or outcomes. Some indicators will identify health or functional conditions that may increase or decrease the residents chance of developing a specific conditions. Quality indicators is a useful tool for facilities to implement performance improvement initiatives when the indicators are suggestive of a potential or actual problem. There are 24 quality indicators and they are as follows: Accidents Behavior/Emotional Patterns Clinical Management Cognitive Patterns Elimination/Incontinence Infection Control Nutrition/Eating Physical Functioning Psychotropic Drug Use Quality of Life Skin Care The incidence of a person not being able to feed them selves increase with advance age. Poor nutrition and dehydration are common in nursing home residents and are associated with many adverse clinical outcomes. Jones states that mealtime problems in nursing homes are widespread, interdisciplinary and serious. Feeding or assisting residents at mealtime is one of the most time-consuming, but also nursing, residents, home, care, quality, psychotropic, indicators, homes, drugs, states, should, intake, serious, reform, patients, nutrition, increase, fluid, drug, conditions, clinical, adverse, adequate, act, without, tool, state, staff, received, poor, patterns, outcomes, one, necessary, medication, medically