Communications Methods Susan Anderson HCS/320 January 26, 2015 Terri De Wees Option 1: Nursing Home Administrator As the administrator of a nursing home, I have recently received notification that this nursing home has been bought out by a national long term care facility. There are new policies that will be put in place, causing some of the current residents to be displaced. As the administrator it is my responsibility to communicate these changes to the residents, clients, and members
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National Health Reform - Decreased Cost in Medicare and Medicaid: How Does it Impacts Nursing Home Care in New York State by Vina Aileen Bonner HCA 621 Utica College Fixing medical care and health insurance in the United States has been a public policy concern for about a century. Presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton focused on the National Health Reform, but only President Barack Obama achieved the
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tools” (Du Pre, 2005). Information is the means of supported measure in healthcare industry. Therefore, the different types of communication systems are the main backbone the makes up the idea in the whole organization. Care of patients in the nursing homes settings now are the support systems for many different types of different people and cultures. There is a need to share patient information and exchange communication within the same organization. As a result there is an increase in how information
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topic I choose was should laws governing nursing homes be changed? Working in a nursing home for the past three years, has influenced my thinking about them. As a result, from working in a health care facility, I’ve learned that the staff is unheard. Majority of Nursing Home Administrators don’t consider their staff’s ideas to improve their facility. Another reason I choose this topic is because many people forget that even though someone is in a nursing care facility, that doesn’t mean overlooking
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Job Outlook Handbook and taking into consideration my previous experience, I have chosen Health Care Administration. Health Care Administrators also known as Medical and Health Services Managers perform administrative duties and sometimes participate in program development. The Occupational Employment Statistics, indicates that job prospects for Healthcare Administrators or Medical and Health Services Managers will increase much faster than average because as the large baby-boom population ages the
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of a nursing home by a national group. The various healthcare communication methods that can be use in a nursing home during the transition. The advantages and disadvantages of using traditional, electronic, and social media methods of communication. This paper will also discuss the effects of HIPPA regulations on communication methods and the use of media for health care communication. There has been recent notification and development concerning the skilled nursing facility. The nursing facility
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Footprint of a Nursing Home Leader Many of us promised our parents that we wouldn't ever put them in a nursing home. Reality is that more than 3 million Americans rely on services provided by nursing homes at some point during a year and 1.4 million of these reside in the Nation’s 15,800 nursing homes on any given day (Bonner, 2013). In my position as Vice President of Operations with a publically traded healthcare company, I support twelve nursing homes. One such nursing home is a 194-bed for-profit
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Safe Lifting and Movement of Nursing Home Residents 1 Safe Lifting and Movement of Nursing Home Residents 2 Safe Lifting and Movement of Nursing Home Residents Safe Lifting and Movement of Nursing Home Residents by: James W. Collins, PhD, MSME Associate Director for Science Division of Safety Research National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morgantown, West Virginia Audrey Nelson, PhD, RN, FAAN Director Patient Safety Center
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Nursing Educators, Nursing Informatics, and Nurse Administrators should be classified as an advanced practice nurse. The consensus states that many nurses with advanced graduate nursing preparation practice in roles and specialties that are essential to advance the health of the public but do not focus on direct care to individual (APRN Consensus Work Group & the National Council of State Boards of Nursing APRN Advisory Committee, 2008). If the consensus recognizes that nurses in these roles
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variable structures of communication. Hospital communication, Nursing home communication, and Security communication are these structures. The channels of communication for a hospital from the admission process, handling the health of patient care, to discharging a patient to their home or rehabilitation center has a focal point of verbal communication added with electronic medical records. The communication channels of a nursing home are displayed in this paper as a chain of command point of view
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