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Author Staff, Institute of Medicine

Title Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes : Is It Adequate?
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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Description 1 online resource (560 pages)
Contents ""Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Part I Review And Recommendations""; ""Summary""; ""FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""Nursing Personnel in a Time of Change""; ""Staffing and Quality of Care in Hospitals""; ""Restructuring in the Hospitals""; ""Changing Roles and Responsibilities of Nursing Personnel""; ""Measuring Quality of Care in Hospitals""; ""Relationship of Nursing Staff to Quality of Care""; ""Staffing and Quality of Care in Nursing Homes""; ""Status of Quality of Care in Nursing Homes""
""Relationships Among Nursing Staff, Management, and Quality of Care""""Staffing and Work-Related Injuries and Stress""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""1 Introduction""; ""IMMEDIATE ORIGINS OF THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE STUDY""; ""COMMITTEE CHARGE""; ""DEFINITIONS""; ""Need""; ""Hospitals""; ""Nursing Homes""; ""Adequacy""; ""STUDY APPROACH""; ""Liaison Panel""; ""Testimony""; ""Site Visits""; ""UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS AND VALUES""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT""; ""2 Implications of Population Change""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""GROWTH OF THE POPULATION""; ""DIVERSITY OF THE POPULATION""
""Racial and Ethnic Composition""""Sociodemographic Characteristics""; ""Gender Distribution""; ""Living Arrangements""; ""Income and Poverty""; ""HEALTH STATUS AND DISABLING CONDITIONS""; ""Use of Health Services""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""3 Evolving Health Care Scene""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""Impetus for Cost Containment""; ""Focus of the Chapter""; ""PRIVATE INSURANCE AND PUBLIC PAYERS FOR HEALTH CARE""; ""MANAGED CARE""; ""OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE""; ""HOSPITALS""; ""Restructuring of Hospital Services""; ""Integrated Systems""; ""Closures and Mergers""; ""Inpatient Activities""; ""Continuum of Care""
""Outpatient Care""""Hospital-sponsored Home Health Services""; ""Hospital-Based Skilled Nursing Units""; ""NURSING HOMES""; ""Forces Affecting Demand for Nursing Home Services""; ""Expenditures and Payments Policies""; ""Cost Containment Policies""; ""Alternative Sites of LTC Care""; ""Restructuring of the Nursing Home Industry""; ""Special Care Units""; ""Subacute Care Units""; ""IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING SERVICES""; ""4 Nursing Personnel in a Time of Change""; ""SUPPLY OF NURSING PERSONNEL""; ""Registered Nurses""; ""Characteristics of RNs""; ""Educational Preparation of RNs""
""Licensed Practical Nurses""""Nurse Assistants""; ""CHANGING DEMAND FOR NURSING PERSONNEL""; ""Employment Settings""; ""Hospitals""; ""Shift in Service Settings""; ""Nursing Homes""; ""Implications of Current Trends""; ""Salaries""; ""IS THE SUPPLY ADEQUATE FOR THE DEMANDS OF THE NEXT CENTURY?""; ""Nursing Education and Training for the Future""; ""Interdisciplinary Team Care""; ""Management of Care""; ""New Modes of Care Delivery""; ""Advanced Practice Nurses""; ""Differentiated Practice""; ""SUMMARY""; ""5 Staffing and Quality of Care in Hospitals""; ""RESTRUCTURING IN THE HOSPITALS""
Notes ""Changing Roles and Responsibilities of RNs""
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Subject Nurses -- Supply and demand -- United States
Nurses' aides -- Supply and demand -- United States
Hospital care -- United States
Nursing home care -- United States
Hospital care
Nurses' aides -- Supply and demand
Nurses -- Supply and demand
Nursing home care
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Wunderlich, Gooloo S
Sloan, Frank
ISBN 9780309556651
0309556651