Nursing Home Lawyer

Praise for a previous edition

“Serves as an excellent study guide for students or as a source of course examination questions for the instructor…The author has skillfully taken the format of the National Association of the Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators and utilized them as a basis for this text.” –Journal of Health Administration Education

This revised and updated study guide is based on the same format as the actual exam and provides an easy-to-use, effective way to review essential concepts and practice test-taking skills. Serving as the key companion to Nursing Home Administration, 5th Edition (Springer Publishing, 2008), this up-to-the-minute guide reflects the latest changes in the domains of practice for nursing home administrators.

The Guide features:

• Over 800 test questions
• Over 1000, Key terms and concepts

The Licensing Exam Review Guide in Nursing Home Administration: Fifth Edition

Originally published in 1918. This volume from the Cornell University Library’s print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

A Text Book of Home Nursing: Modern Scientific Methods for the Care of the Sick [1918 ]

Modern day nursing homes are the descendents of the old county “poor farms,”where individuals who were no longer able to care for themselves were often physically dragged to by their children. Before these county establishments, which were generally poorly run and inadequately inspected, the children were responsible for taking care of their older, dependent parents.

Society has changed.

Even in Japan nowadays, where care of one’s parents was always considered a sacred and honored duty, the advent of two working spouses has led to the establishment and use of quite a number of nursing homes, some of which are actually located in Europe because of the scarcity of available land on the Japanese mainland. A phrase that is often repeated in our country that “one mother can take care of four children but four children cannot take care of one mother.” Nursing homes, for better or worse, have become an ingrained part of our culture and life in every state.

In the last ten years there has been an avalanche of lawsuits against nursing home corporate owners, administrators, directors of nursing, medical directors and attending physicians for alleged lapses in care. The jury verdicts and settlements run into the hundreds of millions of dollars each year. This is not because the defense industry cannot find qualified attorneys to represent the staff working in these facilities, but that juries have clearly demonstrated a rising anger towards patterns of neglect, abuse and lapses in clinical care that many times could have been prevented by better communication and coordination of care.

That is the goal of this book, to impart to you the “secret knowledge” to protect those you love from these lapses before they can cause harm. It will help you to sort out truly legitimate concerns from those that are not realistic expectations and how to advocate for your loved one by knowing how to confront the “system”and win.

You can be the vital link to overseeing quality care for your relative involving dozens of professionals to whom access is often difficult and where frustration can be a daily occurrence.

How to Keep Your Loved One Safe in a Nursing Home: A Quick Reference Guide