Through a democratic exercise involving service users as well as professionals, a research team has determined an agenda with five priorities to improve basic care in hospital Abstract â Fundamental ...

Being clean shaven is often important for male hospital patients, who may feel more dignified, more â themselvesâ and better cared for if they can shave â or if someone helps them with shaving. This ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) is the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world. The Journal's mission is ...

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, Mary E. Kerr, Virginia K. Saba, Lois M. Hoskins, Mary E. Hurley, Winnifred C. Mills, Barbara C. Rottkamp, Judith J. Warren and Lynda J. Carpenito The American Journal of Nursing ...

At least 21 percent of nursing home residents are on antipsychotic drugs, a Times investigation found. By Katie Thomas Robert Gebeloff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg The handwritten doctor’s order was ...

Nursing home administrators seeking the figurative canary in the coal mine to predict avoidable hospitalizations of residents might be looking in the wrong place. Investigators with the Regenstrief ...

Click here to download an Easy-to-Read version of the report. Too many times I’m given too many pills…. [Until they wear off], I can’t even talk. I have a thick tongue when they do that. I ask them ...

The scenes broadcast on the recent RTÉ Investigates programme were deeply upsetting. It showed multiple examples of unacceptable care failings and neglect of vulnerable older residents in two private ...