The American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing (AAPACN®) represents more than 20,000 post-acute care nurses and professionals working in more than 7,200 facilities. Dedicated to supporting PAC nurses and healthcare professionals in providing quality care, AAPACN offers members best in-cla...
ObjectiveTo assess the relative impact of clinical factors versus nonclinical factors—such as postacute care (PAC) supply—in determining whether patients receive care from skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) or inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) after discharge from acute care...
More needs to be done to educate physicians, nurses,midwives, and other primary health-care providers on gender equality and equity issues and on violence, whether this is a focus of their work or not. The most promising approaches in this regard are those that use a systems approach that ...
When the patient’s acute illness had resolved, the patient was discharged from acute care and provided a discharge summary, and the 30-day postacute period started. During the postacute period, nurses and social workers provided self-management support and coordination of care with primary care ...
Hospitalised patients, who now retain their teeth into older adulthood, often rely on nurses to provide oral hygiene care. Nurses have the potential to impact oral health outcomes and quality of life by controlling plaque. However, oral hygiene care practices of nurses in postacute hospital ...
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V. (2011). "Dynamic Capabilities in Home Health: IT-enabled Transformation of Post-acute Care." Journal of the Association for In- formation Systems 12(2), 163-188.Singh, R., Mathiassen, L., Stachura, M.E., Astapova, E.V., 2011. Dynamic Capabilities in Home Health: IT-Enabled ...
Specially trained oncology infusion room nurses may be capable of improving advance care planning for patients with advanced cancer at the end of life, according to a new study published by Cohen et al in JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Background “Advance care planni...
Another limitation is that Delphi meeting members did not include patients, their family, or various health care providers; however, we included physiotherapists and nurses as well as physicians. Moreover, since we did not include sleep or pain in the scoping review formula, their frequency of ...
Anesthesiologists often coordinate patient care with PACU andICUnurses; a shortage of staff or beds may require them to provide postoperative care to mechanically ventilated or critically ill patients requiring additional resuscitation[58]. Anesthesiologists who specialize in critical care may be called in...