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Reading List

• Paula Span.(2015-4-24) Nursing Homes Are Starting To Supplant Hospitals As Focus Of Basic Health Care
• Katie Thomas.(2015-4-15)In Race For Medicare Dollars, Nursing Home Care May Lag

• Jan Hoffman.(2015-11-13)Watchful Eye In Nursing Homes

• Robyn Rice.(2006) Home Care Nursing Practice, Concepts and Application

• Carolyn J. Humphrey, Paula Milone-Nuzzo(1991) Home Care Nursing: An Orientation To Practice
• Jean Smith-Temple.(2002) Nurses' Guide To Clinical Procedures
• Jean Smith-Temple.(2010) Nurses' Guide To Clinical Procedures

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Original

A nursing home, convalescent home or skilled nursing facility (SNF), care home, rest home or intermediate care facility^[1] provides a type of residential care. It is a place of residence for people who require, as determined by a local hospital social worker and their nursing facility provider, continual nursing care and have significant difficulty coping with the required activities of daily living. Nursing aides and skilled nurses are usually available 24 hours a day, and most are large congregate care facilities with government funding. These facilities are supplemental or competing classes to home care, home health, community services-non-facility, and home and community-based Medicaid waiver services.[5][6][7]

Revised

A nursing home is a life time health care facility. The nurses are their twenty-four hours to help care for the residents living in the facility. A nursing home is where some or where most elderly people go to get care because they cant do it on their own or they really don't have anyone to do it for them or to really take care of them and by being in the nursing home the nurses provide them with care. The nurses provide so much care for the residents.The nurses have many different roles, there is the Certified Nursing Assistant also known as (CNA). The CNA's bathe the residents, and help the residents get started with their day. The Licensed Practical Nurse also known as the (LPN) these nurses help administer the right medicine to the residents. The Registered Nurse also known as the (RN) these nurses are the head and charge nurse and these nurses help see about the residents to make sure they are taking their medicine like they should and also relay the message to the residents about what the doctor wan the residents to do.[1][2]

Original Contribution

A nursing home is a place for people who don't need to be in a hospital but cant be cared for at home. Most nursing homes have nurse-aides and skilled nurses on hand twenty-four hours a day. Some nursing homes are set up like a hospital. The staff provides medical care,as well as physical speech and occupational therapy. There might be a nurses' station on each floor. Other nursing homes try to be more like home. They try to have a neighborhood feel. Often, they don't have a fixed day-to-day schedule,and kitchens might be open to residents. Staff members are encouraged to develop relationships with residents meaning the nurses also.[3][4]