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Nursing Home Aides Help Detect Problems Early
Wed, 09/20/2000 - 12:00am — Karen StevensonDescription:
A new article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggests that involving nursing assistants in monitoring the health of nursing home residents can help predict illness. The researchers noted that nursing assistants often notice early signs of acute illness but do not document or communicate their observations with medical staff, so they tried to enhance nursing assistants' observation and documentation of signs of acute illness by developing a validated, standardized instrument for communication with medical staff. They found that the system accurately identified the development of illness 53% of the time, and that nursing assistants' documentation of signs of illness preceded chart documentation by an average of 5 days.
A new article in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggests that involving nursing assistants in monitoring the health of nursing home residents can help predict illness. The researchers noted that nursing assistants often notice early signs of acute illness but do not document or communicate their observations with medical staff, so they tried to enhance nursing assistants' observation and documentation of signs of acute illness by developing a validated, standardized instrument for communication with medical staff. They found that the system accurately identified the development of illness 53% of the time, and that nursing assistants' documentation of signs of illness preceded chart documentation by an average of 5 days.
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