Palliative Nursing in Home Health Care Across the Lifespan.

Primary palliative nursing in home health care (HHC) can be delivered to medically complex patients across the lifespan. Primary palliative nursing provides patient- and family-centered care for serious illness by alleviating the stress and symptoms of illness; coordinating care; and supporting the social, cultural, and psychological aspects of care. In this article, two case scenarios of patients in different phases of life serve as examples of primary palliative nursing in HHC.

The association between the mental health disorders, substance abuse, and tobacco use with head & neck cancer stage at diagnosis.

Purpose: Mental health disorders, substance abuse, and tobacco use are prevalent in the US population. However, the association between these conditions and head and neck cancer (HNC) stage is poorly understood. This research aims to uncover the relationship between pre-existing mental health disorders, substance abuse, and tobacco use and HNC stage at diagnosis in patients receiving care in an integrated, public safety-net healthcare system.

Acceptance of the Internet-Based Sharing Nursing Service among caregivers of elderly with chronic diseases.

Background: In China, Internet-Based Sharing Nursing Service (IBSNS) is a new mode of nursing service delivery that has been in practice for over five years, which enables nurses to provide care at clients' home. However, the acceptance and associated factors of IBSNS among caregivers of elderly with chronic diseases who are the major clients of the service were unclear.

Aim: To explore the acceptance of IBSNS and its associated factors among Chinese caregivers of elderly patient with chronic diseases based on the modified Technology Acceptance Model (mTAM).

Medicare Advantage and Home Health Care: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: Home health care serves millions of Americans who are "Aging in Place," including the rapidly growing population of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees. This study systematically reviewed extant evidence illustrating home health care (HHC) services to MA enrollees.

Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted in 6 electronic databases to identify eligible studies, which resulted in 386 articles.

Corrigendum: Chain mediations of perceived social support and emotional regulation efficacy between role stress and compassion fatigue: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Chain mediations of perceived social support and emotional regulation efficacy between role stress and compassion fatigue: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Nurses at the frontline faced high risks of the COVID-19 infection, undertook heavy workloads of patient care, and experienced tremendous stress that often led to compassion fatigue.

Aim: This study was to explore the role of positive psychosocial resources (i.e.

Where Patients Live Matter in Emergency Department Visits in Home Health Care: Rural/Urban Status and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status.

An increasing body of evidence highlights the importance of an individual's place of residence on their health and functional outcomes. This study is based on Outcome and Assessment Information Set data to assess the differences in emergency department visits among Medicare home health care patients by patients' residence location (rural/urban status and neighborhood socioeconomic status). Compared to urban patients, a disproportionately higher proportion of rural patients lived in more or most disadvantaged neighborhoods (83.

Continuity of Care Versus Language Concordance as an Intervention to Reduce Hospital Readmissions From Home Health Care.

Background: Language concordance between health care practitioners and patients have recently been shown to lower the risk of adverse health events. Continuity of care also been shown to have the same impact.

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative effectiveness of both continuity of care and language concordance as alternative or complementary interventions to improve health outcomes of people with limited English proficiency.

A multi-language qualitative study of limited English proficiency patient experiences in the United States.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to understand the limited English proficiency patient experience with health care services in an urban setting in the United States.

Methods: Through a narrative analysis approach, 71 individuals who spoke either Spanish, Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, or Korean shared their experiences through semi-structured interviews between 2016 and 2018. Analyses used monolingual and multilingual open coding approaches to generate themes.

Psychological distress and its associated factors among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Hunan, China: a cross-sectional study.

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience a high risk for psychological distress. Understanding what factors contributing to this risk is vital for developing effective interventions to address COPD-related psychological distress. To examine psychological distress and its associated factors in COPD patients in China.

Home Health Care to Asian Americans: a Systematic Review.

Objective: Despite being the fastest growing minority group in the USA, Asian Americans are among the least studied ones, particularly in the home and community-based services settings. This study aimed to review and synthesize extant evidence on Asian American's access, utilization, and outcomes of home health care.

Methods: This is a systematic review study.

Relationship between antenatal sleep quality and depression in perinatal women: A comprehensive meta-analysis of observational studies.

Background: Perinatal depression is a global mental health problem. Studies have suggested that perinatal depression is related to poor sleep quality during pregnancy. However, evidence on the influence and mechanism of sleep quality on the risk of developing perinatal depression remains limited and inconclusive.

Implementing a quality improvement program to reduce falls and increase patient medication satisfaction in an academic medical center.

Background: Hospitalized older adult medication-related falls are common and understudied.

Local Problem: There were organizational educational gaps identified in assisting nurses to recognize and mitigate medication associated side effects that may predispose hospitalized older adults to fall.

Methods: A quality improvement project that utilized pre and post-test design.

Quality of care in home health agencies with and without accreditation: a cohort study.

While home health agencies (HHAs) can seek accreditation to recognize their quality of service, it is unknown whether agencies with accreditation perform better in providing care than those without accreditation. Using 5-year data from national data sources, the aims of this study were: 1) to depict characteristics of HHAs with and without accreditation; and 2) to examine the relationship between accreditation status and HHA performance on quality-of-care metrics. This study analyzed 7,697 agencies in the US and found that 1) agencies that were for-profit, urban, not-hospital-affiliated, single-branch, Medicare enrolled only, and without hospice program were more likely to have accreditation; and 2) overall, accredited agencies performed better on the three commonly used quality indicators, timely initiation of care, hospitalization, and emergency department visit, though not all the observed differences were substantial in absolute value.

Data Quality of Automated Comorbidity Lists in Patients With Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders.

EHRs provide an opportunity to conduct research on underrepresented oncology populations with mental health and substance use disorders. However, a lack of data quality may introduce unintended bias into EHR data. The objective of this article is describe our analysis of data quality within automated comorbidity lists commonly found in EHRs.

Rural and urban disparities in quality of home health care: A longitudinal cohort study (2014-2018).

Purpose: Home health care is one of the fastest growing health care sectors in the United States. However, little is known of differences in trends in quality performance between rural and urban home health agencies over time. This study aimed to examine disparities in quality performance between rural and urban home health agencies between 2014 and 2018.

Association of Grip Strength with Quality of Life in the Chinese Oldest Old.

Emerging studies have suggested an association between grip strength and health-related quality of life (QOL). However, evidence for which specific domains of QOL are associated with grip strength remains limited and inconsistent. Particularly, such evidence is scarce in the oldest old, who constitute one of the most vulnerable populations.

Forgotten Front Line: Understanding the Needs of Unionized Home Health Aides in Downstate New York During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, home health aides (HHAs) provided daily medical and personal care to community-dwelling older adults and those with chronic conditions. Prior qualitative studies have found that providing care during COVID-19 left HHAs susceptible to physical, financial, and emotional risks. However, limited quantitative data exist The objective of this study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 on HHAs and to understand the challenges and opportunities for current and future pandemic planning.

Working experience of certified nursing assistants in the greater New York City area during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a survey Study.

This study aimed to examine the challenges and needs of certified nursing assistants (CNAs) working in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the greater New York City area. Between September and November of 2020, a telephone survey was administered to and completed by 208 CNAs in the study area about various aspects of their working experience during COVID-19. CNAs reported significant exposure to COVID-19 and experienced additional emotional and financial strain due to the pandemic.

Assessing the influence of patient language preference on 30 day hospital readmission risk from home health care: A retrospective analysis.

Background: In home health care, language barriers are understudied. Language barriers between patients and providers are known to affect a variety of patient outcomes. How a patient's language preference influences hospital readmission risk from home health care has yet to be determined.

Effect of social participation on the development of physical frailty: Do type, frequency and diversity matter?

Background: Little is known about the longitudinal association between social participation and incident frailty in community-dwelling older adults in general and particularly in China. This study examined the impact of type, frequency and diversity of social participation on incident physical frailty at two-year follow-up.

Method: Longitudinal data from three waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were used.

Factors associated with difficulty in adapting and intent to leave among new graduate nurses in South Korea.

Background: New graduate nurses experience difficulty in adapting to a new environment, which affects intent to leave. However, data on the factors contributing to difficulty in adapting and intent to leave among new graduate nurses are insufficient.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to explore and compare factors associated with difficulty in adapting and the intent to leave among new graduate nurses in South Korea.

Continuity of Nursing Care in Home Health: Impact on Rehospitalization Among Older Adults With Dementia.

Background: Home health care (HHC) is a leading form of home and community-based services for persons with dementia (PWD). Nurses are the primary providers of HHC; however, little is known of nursing care delivery and quality.

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the association between continuity of nursing care in HHC and rehospitalization among PWD.