Nursing Home Administration: Fifth Edition
by James E. Allen /
2007 / English / PDF
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Like its very successful predecessors, this highly readable new edition contains the knowledge essential to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. The author uses the format of the licensing examination and the guidelines of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators as the basis for the text.
The fifth edition has been extensively updated and revised to reflect the wealth of new legislation and regulations passed since the publication of the last edition in 2002 offers compelling new information on a wide array of topics, and adds several expanded sections.
New to the Fifth Edition:
MANAGEMENT:
• Major emphasis on the current state or federal regulations and their impacts on the nursing home industry
• 2006 industry data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
• A series of trend analyses for years 1993, 1999 and 2006
• Updates of Quality measures used by CMS
• Inclusion of numerous websites important to long term care which facilitate the reader exploring various topics in more depth
• Section on the acronyms currently in use in the long
