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J S Kayser-Jones

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PubMed1989

Factors contributing to the hospitalization of nursing home residents.

This anthropological study describes and analyzes the clinical and social-structural factors contributing to the hospitalization of nursing home residents. In 48.2% of the cases, hospitalization could have been avoided. Factors such as an insufficient number of adequately trained nursing staff, the inability of nursing staff to administer and monitor intravenous therapy, lack of diagnostic services, and pressure for transfer from the staff and family contributed to hospitalization. In the United States each year, an estimated 216,000 nursing home residents who are hospitalized might be treated in the nursing home, for a cost savings of $942,763,530.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1986

Distributive justice and the treatment of acute illness in nursing homes.

Using participant observation and interviews, this research investigated the social-cultural factors that influence decision making in the evaluation and treatment of acute illness in nursing homes. Mental status and cost of care emerged as the predominant factors that influence physicians in the decision-making process. Drawing on some of the principles of distributive justice, it is argued that it is unjust to deny health care to the elderly because of their impaired mental status or a lack of financial resources. Quality of life from the patient's perspective, the patient's and their family's wishes and cultural and individual values must be considered in the decision-making process.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1982

Institutional structures: catalysts of or barriers to quality care for the institutionalized aged in Scotland and the U.S.

The care of the elderly in two long-term care institutions, one in Scotland and one in the United States, is described, compared, and analyzed. In Scotland three institutional structures, the National Health Service, the Geriatric Service, and the specialty of geriatrics are identified as catalysts of quality care. In the U.S. Medicare and Medicaid, the absence of geriatrics as a specialty, and the nursing home are identified as barriers to quality care for the institutionalized aged. The findings suggest that three components, an adequate government insurance program, professionals who specialize in the care of the aged, and a structure to provide continuing comprehensive care, are essential for a successful program of care for the institutionalized elderly.

Aged↗
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Masculinity and femininity in nursing.

The concept of the "ideal nurse" was rated by 186 undergraduate and graduate nursing students on the 24-item Personal Attributes Questionnaire. PAQ contains independent subscales that measure masculinity and femininity as well as a bipolar subscale in which masculinity and femininity represent opposite endpoints on a single continuum. The ideal nurse was rated as being highly masculine, highly feminine, and midway between masculine and feminine endpoints on the bipolar subscale. Compared to undergraduate females, graduate and male nursing students rated the ideal nurse as being more masculine. Implications of these findings in the field of nursing are discussed.

Adolescent↗