Every year, over 1 million Medicare beneficiaries receive nursing and rehabilitation services in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to help with recovery after a hospital stay. The goal of physical and occupational therapy in SNFs is to help patients regain their functional mobility, discharge back to the community, and avoid being readmitted to the hospital. In SNFs, patients can receive therapy provided by occupational and physical therapists who perform evaluations, treatments, and discharge assessments, or occupational and physical therapy assistants, who are only licensed to provide treatments under therapist supervision.
Read MoreThere has never been a more relevant time to highlight the role of the research nurse and research delivery teams. The breakthroughs in treatments and potential vaccines for Covid-19 are often in the headlines, but how the drugs get to this point is often overlooked or misunderstood.
Read MoreThe question of why nurses remain in everyday practice within the field of health care and thereby their profession is a complex one. In this study, I have tried to develop a comprehensive model that gives a deeper understanding of the question by pointing to the qualitative worth of different desires and exploring how nurses’ awareness of their desires impacts whether they remain or not. The model was developed as a schematic model, grounded in the empirical findings of an earlier study, the aim of which was to understand the significant factors that made nurses remain in everyday practice.
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