Nursing Home Administration



Nursing Home Administration

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to expand the boundaries of our knowledge by exploring some relevant facts and figures. The nursing home is a place where medical and social services are provided to the elderly. These homes provide services, on prescription, to people aged 60 and over, to sick or dependent adult, to people under 60 with disabilities and to people under 60 years with chronic nursing care and general hygiene, facing competitions for the performance of activities of daily life. The nursing home has a mission to help support people at home, including preventing, or postponing, the entrance to the hospital or in an accommodation establishment and shortening certain hospital stays. This amount is independent of the number of representatives by occupation and number of contacts between home and medical patients. Under a contract signed between the patient, and home medical mutual, the mutual pays directly to the medical home every month and person subscribes a fixed sum: the package (it is individual and non-family). They are involved in patients' homes or in institutions that support non-medical services to elderly or disabled people (Tumosa, 2007).

Nursing Home Administrators & Financial Decision

Nurse home administrators handle the bulk of behind-the-scenes nursing responsibilities in a health care facility, including creating the facility's health care policies, working with the medical staff and governing boards of the institution, and making financial decisions. The occupation marries nursing, business and management, meaning that nurse administrators play an integral part in ensuring that a facility runs smoothly.

Being a nurse home administrator requires nursing knowledge - and a lot of other things too. The nursing home must be a leader, be ethical, have knowledge of business and deal with the bureaucracy. Nursing home administrators have to deal with some different problems that nurse in a way they do. The challenge is different from nursing, and somewhat more varied.

Merits & Demerits of Financial Decision

Following are the advantages, if appropriate financial decisions are made by the Nursing home administrators:

Cost efficiency and effectiveness

Timely availability of resources

Improvement in the facilities and technologies used in providing health care service

Higher profitability

Higher satisfaction of nursing staff

Following are the disadvantages, if inappropriate financial decisions are made by the Nursing home administrators:

Lack of availability of funds

Poor use of facilities

Dissatisfaction of employees (nursing staff) and customer (elderly patients)

Lack of availability of health care equipments.

Procedures

Creation

Permission to create a nursing care home shall be issued by the Prefect of the department after consultation with the regional committee of the social and medical welfare.

Permission is granted if the project (Robert, 2008):

is consistent with the objectives of social and medico-social care

satisfies the rules of the organization and operation

The operating cost is not disproportionate to the service given the conditions of satisfaction of needs, or activity and the costs of providing services comparable benefits

The operating cost for a full year with the allocation of limited health insurance credits for the elderly set under the national goal of health insurance expenditure.

Funding

Costs related to care provided by nursing home are ...