{"title":"The nursing standards in Texas states that if you believe a fellow nurse is practicing impaired, you must notify the board.","authors":"Suzanne E Reid","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79399,"journal":{"name":"Director (Cincinnati, Ohio)","volume":"13 1","pages":"9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26903110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The management of GERD in the LTC environment: a medical director's perspective.","authors":"Sean C Cannone","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79399,"journal":{"name":"Director (Cincinnati, Ohio)","volume":"13 2","pages":"83, 85-8; quiz 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25132907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patients in pain: What they say, and what they really mean.","authors":"Margo McCaffery","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79399,"journal":{"name":"Director (Cincinnati, Ohio)","volume":"13 2","pages":"104, 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25132914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Administrators and Directors of Nursing usually believe they are doing the right thing when they begin to implement an ergonomic program such as safe resident handling. However, as time goes by, and the program fades, they may wonder where they went wrong. The commitment, planning, and follow through between "management" and "employees" when a safe resident handling/minimal lift program is implemented is an essential, but often overlooked, part of an effective ergonomic program. The best of programs can fail unless there is an ongoing effort by both to insure that the following goals are achieved: (1) safety for the caregivers, (2) safety for the residents, and (3) improvement or maintenance of mobility of the residents.
{"title":"Working together for success.","authors":"Linda L Haney","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Administrators and Directors of Nursing usually believe they are doing the right thing when they begin to implement an ergonomic program such as safe resident handling. However, as time goes by, and the program fades, they may wonder where they went wrong. The commitment, planning, and follow through between \"management\" and \"employees\" when a safe resident handling/minimal lift program is implemented is an essential, but often overlooked, part of an effective ergonomic program. The best of programs can fail unless there is an ongoing effort by both to insure that the following goals are achieved: (1) safety for the caregivers, (2) safety for the residents, and (3) improvement or maintenance of mobility of the residents.</p>","PeriodicalId":79399,"journal":{"name":"Director (Cincinnati, Ohio)","volume":"13 2","pages":"75-8, 80-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25132906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Transfers and mobilization can be the occasion of a very positive experience for both the caregiver and the resident if certain principles are applied: a feeling connection between the caregiver and resident, taking a small amount of extra time to insure that the resident is invited to move and signals their intention to work with the caregiver to accomplish the move, and being aware and working with "normal movements." Obviously, there are some residents who will be able to participate very little, if at all, in mobility and transfers and there are some that will be very resistant. For those individuals, the transfer/mobility task may not need to be done at all, or it may need to done as carefully as possible, mechanically, without the resident's cooperation. However, it is a mistake to make assumptions about the residents' lack of ability to connect and communicate with the caregiver in the transfer/mobility process. Applying the principles outlined above to improve the experience of transfers and and mobility means that the caregiver must think of themselves and the resident as "one unit" much as the tango dancers are one unit when dancing their beautiful dance.
{"title":"Healthcare ergonomics--it takes two to tango.","authors":"Linda L Haney","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transfers and mobilization can be the occasion of a very positive experience for both the caregiver and the resident if certain principles are applied: a feeling connection between the caregiver and resident, taking a small amount of extra time to insure that the resident is invited to move and signals their intention to work with the caregiver to accomplish the move, and being aware and working with \"normal movements.\" Obviously, there are some residents who will be able to participate very little, if at all, in mobility and transfers and there are some that will be very resistant. For those individuals, the transfer/mobility task may not need to be done at all, or it may need to done as carefully as possible, mechanically, without the resident's cooperation. However, it is a mistake to make assumptions about the residents' lack of ability to connect and communicate with the caregiver in the transfer/mobility process. Applying the principles outlined above to improve the experience of transfers and and mobility means that the caregiver must think of themselves and the resident as \"one unit\" much as the tango dancers are one unit when dancing their beautiful dance.</p>","PeriodicalId":79399,"journal":{"name":"Director (Cincinnati, Ohio)","volume":"13 1","pages":"19-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26903112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}