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Relationship Between Nurse Training And Physical Restraints In Nursing Homes, Terah Tessier Jan 2016

Relationship Between Nurse Training And Physical Restraints In Nursing Homes, Terah Tessier

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), approximately 1.3 million U.S. residents are residing in nursing homes. CMS enforced regulations in the Nursing Home Reform Act. Training in the use of restraints in nursing homes is monitored through the CMS standards. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a correlation between training standards of health care practitioners and their use of restraints in nursing homes based on the patterns of citations by RNs and CNAs. Data were collected from Kansas, Louisiana, and Ohio within the CMS Nursing Home Data Compendium. The key research …