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What is Nursing Facility Care? |
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Wednesday, 12 May 2004 |
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The range of services in a Nursing Care Facility include nursing, nutritional, environmental, rehabilitative, social and psycho-social services provided to residents who need them for short or long periods of time. Most, but not all, residents are elderly. Services provided in a facility are supervised by facility nurses and other trained supervisors. The daily care services provided can include assistance with normal activities of daily living such as dressing, bathing, eating, toileting, ambulating, and socializing.
Nursing Facility care has traditionally meant a resident stay of a few months to many years. Many residents do, if fact, need such care, but that is no longer the rule. In today’s Nursing Care facility, many stays are short in duration, often lasting a few days to a few weeks. Whatever the length of stay, most services of everyday Nursing Facility Care remain the same. The common denominator is a group of trained individuals providing needed services to a group of residents requiring those services.
All services in a facility that provides rehabilitative or skilled nursing services are ordered by the resident’s attending physician and provided by licensed or certified staff such as Registered or Licensed Practical Nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants, or licensed Therapists.
Nursing Care Facilities are in a constant state of change. Each year brings new opportunities to improve the quality of care and services offered as technology and theories of aging and care change.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 March 2007 )
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