Nursing homes
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Last reviewed: May 2018
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It has been estimated that constipation affects 74% of nursing home residents. There are many factors that predispose aged care residents to constipation incuding significant causes near the end-of-life.
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High care facilities (nursing homes) will be able to provide for the palliative care needs of their residents. Most "ageing in place low care facilities (hostels) will do as well. High care facilities have registered and enrolled nurses to provide skilled nursing care at all times.
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Most people, when asked, indicate that they would prefer to die at home. In the last 50 years in Australia and many parts of the western world however, the number of people who die at home has actually decreased. 16% of people die at home, 20% of people die in hospices, 10% in nursing homes and the rest die in hospitals.
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When someone is being cared for at home there can be a lot of people involved. Sometimes paid care workers will also come in to provide support.
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Sometimes the routine of a hospital or a residential care facility may not suit the individual.
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GPs have an essential role to play in enabling home deaths a checklist is provided to help with planning care at home when a patient expresses a wish for a home death
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If your child has had a midline catheter inserted, you will need to take care of it at home to keep it clean and working well
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Clinical decision making requires good quality judgment including critical thinking
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This video features two couples talking about stillbirth. If youve had a stillbirth you can still get support at home afterwards, including nurse visits.
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A child health nurse supports you as a parent once you are home from hospital with a newborn baby. Discover more about their role and how they can help you.
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Infection control strategies for preventing the spread of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in nursing homes for older people
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Urinary incontinence is very common amongst elderly long-term residents of nursing homes or hospitals. Prompted voiding is a behavioural therapy used mainly in North American nursing homes. It aims to improve bladder control for people with or without dementia using verbal prompts and positive reinforcement. The review found that although there is suggestive evidence of short-term benefit from prompted voiding, it is not known if these persist. Prompted voiding is also resource-intensive for nursing staff. Prompted voiding can take up a lot of carers time and this hinders its wider use. There was no evidence about long-term effects.
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Prolonged urinary catheterization is common amongst people in long-term care settings, for example in nursing homes or home care. In addition, many people living in the community need to have a permanent catheter. Long-term catheterization was defined as for more than 30 days. We identified only three trials involving 102 adults in various settings. All three trials were too small to provide reliable evidence to indicate which types of catheters are best to use in which patients.
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Regardless of whether or not you are an aged care registered nurse in New South Wales, you have likely heard reports that Shooters Party MP Phil Donatos bill to legislate RNs in aged care facilities 24 hours a day has been rejected by the NSW state parliament (Rurenga 2017)
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Withdrawal of chronic antipsychotic drugs for behavioural and psychological symptoms in older people with dementia
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This summary of a Cochrane review presents what we know from research about the effects of exercise for older patients who are admitted to hospital. The review shows that:
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This review aimed to examine whether specialist paediatric home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses reduce the number of hospital admissions and length of stay, enhance health care in the community and reduce stress for families at the time of their child's illness. It is an update of our original review published in 2006. We found seven relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of total of 840 children aged from birth to 18 years with acute and/or chronic illnesses receiving either specialist home-based nursing services or conventional health care. The outcomes included use of health care services, physical and mental health, satisfaction, adverse health outcomes and costs. We decided not to combine the results of these RCTs because of the variety in types of services provided, types of participants and the outcome measures used. The results of individual RCTs show improved satisfaction with home-based care with no adverse impact on physical health outcomes for children. There is some evidence that specialist home-based nursing services reduce the length of hospital stay; however, there is no evidence that it leads to a reduction in use of hospital services. Further trials are required, measuring health, satisfaction, service use and long-term costs.
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My resume included a wealth of home-care, nursing education, and several years of clinical practice in a major teaching hospital in the northeastern portion of the United States
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Does delivery of home care by outreach nurses improve outcomes for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
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