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Integration of Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach® to Care into multidisciplinary health professions courses
(5/31/2018)In 2015 over 46 million people worldwide were living with dementia; a number expected to affect 131.5 million people by 2050 (Alzheimer’s Association, 2015). Up to 90% of people living with dementia in ... -
Distinguishing Pain versus Psychiatric Behavior in Alzheimer's Disease Patients
(5/7/2018)Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients are at risk for not having their pain recognized. When nurses do not have adequate knowledge and tools to help determine if an AD patient is experiencing pain this often results in ignored ... -
Managing agitation and aggression in patients with dementia
(5/8/2018)Dementia is a degenerative progressive disease that leads to multiple behavioral disturbances particularly behaviors of agitation and aggression. Risperdal is the most common antipsychotic agent used in patients with ... -
Hourly rounding and fall prevention: A change process
(5/9/2018)Falls are among the most common and serious problems facing older adult patients living in nursing homes. The focus of this project was to implement an hourly rounding fall prevention protocol in a nursing home that provides ... -
Is it pain or too much pain medication?
(6/11/2018)Delirium is one of the most common undesirable consequences in older adult surgical patients. Studies have suggested that uncontrolled pain, in addition to overmedicating with opioids, may trigger an episode ... -
The Effect of Caregiver Feeding Education on Dementia Patient Weight
(7/3/2018)Dementia is associated with deterioration in memory and cognition which can be severe enough to diminish a person's capacity to perform everyday activities including eating. Maintaining sufficient nutritional intake for ... -
Using multifactorial interventions to prevent elderly hospitalized patients with mental health disorders from falling
(8/11/2014)Patients have ethical and legal rights to expect their environment is safe when they are hospitalized. A component of environmental safety is the duty of hospitals to anticipate the occurrence of patient falls and ...
