Nursing Home Placement Report

Westmount Nursing Homes, Incorporated is a for profit chain of seven nursing homes located in northeastern state. Westmount incorporates four divisions consisting of 1) the Facilities Division, which manages skilled nursing homes; 2) the Home Care Division, which operates its homemaker and nursing services for seniors that live in their own home 3) the Commissary Service Division, that operates a central kitchen in which it prepares and distribute meals to four of its homes; and 4) a Consulting Division which does marketing management consulting and accounting services to a variety of its long term clients in the long term care industry.

I chose a learning plan topic that would increase my nursing practice competency as a senior nursing student, would be relevant to my placement setting, would build on my knowledge obtained from completing NSE417 – Nursing Practice IV class and NSE407 – Nursing: Professional Issues and Trends class, and was approved by my Primary Preceptor and Faculty Advisor (FA). With a global trend of an increasing senior population and having a placement in a nursing home, it was important to choose a learning plan that focused on the challenges and trends in senior safety. My Overarching goal for my learning plan was to expand my knowledge and critical thinking skills related to expertly assessing and managing elder frailty in a long-term care setting by Tuesday, March 1, 2016. By completing this learning plan, I have fulfilled and demonstrated the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)’s Continuing Competency Standard by performing a self-assessment of my knowledge, developing and implementing a learning plan, and evaluating the outcomes of the plan (CNO, 2002). Ultimately, the goal is to enhance geriatric care at my placement setting and advance my competency in delivering safe, ethical, competent client-centred care.

The delivery of Healthcare is a high touch enterprise that calls for interaction among every stakeholder within the healthcare sphere. Communication, whether interpersonal or intrapersonal, is a crucial part of these dealings and may be transformed by the intellectual use of communication tools. Information is the means of support of healthcare. Therefore, communication systems are the backbone that supports the whole idea. Care of patients in the nursing homes now almost unavoidably entails many different people, all with the need to share patient information and talk about their organization. As a result

I have worked for the West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services (WVDRS) for over three years as a Rehabilitation Service Associate. During that time I have been given the opportunity to work with the clients that we serve on a regular basis. However, the practicum experience provided me with an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the rehabilitation process and what it means to work as a team with individuals to achieve goals. The practicum experience also gave me insight on the processes involved in providing individuals information and assistance in finding solutions to help overcome or work through challenges encountered on a daily basis.

As the Nursing Home Administrator for (The Bay Nursing Home and Skilled Nursing Home Facility) our beloved local nursing home. I now am in transition, as our nursing home has been acquired by a national group. The result of the new policies that were implemented with regards to the new

Working with a dedicated team and family oriented professionals, Sumiko spends her professional time assisting the community members when there is a medical emergency. Sumiko always wanted to be an emergency medical technician and a firefighter; she realizes that an EMT gets to work closely with other professionals that care about the people in the community and professionals that are always willing to risk their life’s to keep everyone also safe.

First, I want to thank those that were able to make it out today to the meeting. Your attendance was a progressive step towards completing this Healthcare fair's mission. For further meeting dates, a link will be sent out in the next few days to take votes on the most convenient dates and time for us all. To build great teamwork, there must first be people. I envision unity amongst this team and I hope we all can come to an agreement on the next meeting dates.

The reporting party (RP) stated her husband Vernon Ferguson DOB: 11/29/29 was sent to the emergency room due to a frozen shoulder on 3/29/16. The resident was released to return to the facility 3/30/16, however the facility refuse to allow the resident to return. The facility notified the family on 3/30/16 the resident was at the hospital and he would not be allowed back in the facility. The RP stated the resident was abandoned and forced to spend two nights in the emergency room prior to finding an alternative placement (Mountianview Care Home). The RP stated she paid the facility $6500 for the month of April and due to the facility eviction she is entitled to receive a refund. According to the RP the administrator stated the check went out

Writer called Constance to find out if she has heard from the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA). Constance said yes and that they scheduled to meet on the 9th of this month. Constance said she will be seeing her pain managing doctor on the 8th. Also Constance said Medicaid approved for her to use long term care. Care manager was glad to hear that. Constance promised to update care manager after the

The initiative that I have chosen for this discussion is the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program (IMPACT ACT 2014). This Act has been developed to implement a quality measures using a standardized assessment data, as well as, the reporting of resources used, hospitalization and discharge. The Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program assessment based quality measures are reporting if residents that, have experienced one or more falls that ended in a major injury and residents with a pressure ulcers that have developed in their care or has continued to get worse. I believe that, this Act for health care quality would ensure that residents of long term care facilities would receive better care (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid

This was the second time coming back to the nursing home visit. I was excited that I get to chat with the resident again. My resident was eating breakfast when I walked into the room and she had no idea that I was coming back that day. I got very anxious because she might not want to be bothered, but I was wrong. She was very welcoming and happy that I came back to visit. We had long conversations about her life and new things that came up since the last time we met. I also did an assessment on my resident this time around since I was not able to during our last visit. I explained the whole process to her while doing the assessment and make sure she knows everything that I am doing. Compared to the first visit, I was much more comfortable.

Senior housing facilities, such as assisted living communities and nursing homes, are regulated at both the state and federal level, although the majority of the burden for governing the laws and regulations falls to the state where the facility is based.

On 12/27/16 I met Mr. Rasak at The Regency rehab center. Mr. Raska was alert and oriented. There was no sign of confusion. Mr. Rasak was very appreciative of all of the help that has been provided to him. On 12/28/16 the adjuster requested that I review 20 pages of emergency room notes.

After using the Medicare website to compare nursing homes in my area, I chose to compare Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home and Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home. To my expectations, it was unexpected to find the results lead to Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home, having a higher rating than Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home. Both of these nursing homes are participators in the Medicare and Medicaid program. However Jamaica Nursing Home is non-for profit organization while the Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home is a for profit organization. The overall rating of both facilities were 5 star rating and 4 star rating respectively, out of a 5 star rating system. Categories that were attributed to the overall ranking of both nursing homes included both health and fire safety

For many years, older people have been considering going to a care home or hire the services of home care. If you are one of them or if you have a family member that needs any of the two services, you have to compare care homes and home care and which option would bring positive effects on you or your family member.