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Not as simple as it seems: extensive facility and training gaps in nursing home bathing
Standardized observation of bed baths and showers for 100 residents in 8 nursing homes revealed inadequate cleansing of body sites (88%–100% failure) and >90% process failure involving lather, firm massage, changing dirty wipes or cloths, and following clean-to-dirty sequence. Insufficient water...
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Cambridge University Press
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10507494/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325907 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.109 |
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author | Nguyen, Kristine P. Singh, Raveena D. Saavedra, Raheeb Billimek, John T. Tam, Steven P. Steinberg, Karl E. Porter, Lori Mitchell, John Huang, Susan S. |
author_facet | Nguyen, Kristine P. Singh, Raveena D. Saavedra, Raheeb Billimek, John T. Tam, Steven P. Steinberg, Karl E. Porter, Lori Mitchell, John Huang, Susan S. |
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description | Standardized observation of bed baths and showers for 100 residents in 8 nursing homes revealed inadequate cleansing of body sites (88%–100% failure) and >90% process failure involving lather, firm massage, changing dirty wipes or cloths, and following clean-to-dirty sequence. Insufficient water warmth affected 86% of bathing opportunities. Bathing training and adequate resources are needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-105074942023-09-20 Not as simple as it seems: extensive facility and training gaps in nursing home bathing Nguyen, Kristine P. Singh, Raveena D. Saavedra, Raheeb Billimek, John T. Tam, Steven P. Steinberg, Karl E. Porter, Lori Mitchell, John Huang, Susan S. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication Standardized observation of bed baths and showers for 100 residents in 8 nursing homes revealed inadequate cleansing of body sites (88%–100% failure) and >90% process failure involving lather, firm massage, changing dirty wipes or cloths, and following clean-to-dirty sequence. Insufficient water warmth affected 86% of bathing opportunities. Bathing training and adequate resources are needed. Cambridge University Press 2023-09 2023-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10507494/ /pubmed/37325907 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.109 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Concise Communication Nguyen, Kristine P. Singh, Raveena D. Saavedra, Raheeb Billimek, John T. Tam, Steven P. Steinberg, Karl E. Porter, Lori Mitchell, John Huang, Susan S. Not as simple as it seems: extensive facility and training gaps in nursing home bathing |
title | Not as simple as it seems: extensive facility and training gaps in nursing home bathing |
title_full | Not as simple as it seems: extensive facility and training gaps in nursing home bathing |
title_fullStr | Not as simple as it seems: extensive facility and training gaps in nursing home bathing |
title_full_unstemmed | Not as simple as it seems: extensive facility and training gaps in nursing home bathing |
title_short | Not as simple as it seems: extensive facility and training gaps in nursing home bathing |
title_sort | not as simple as it seems: extensive facility and training gaps in nursing home bathing |
topic | Concise Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10507494/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37325907 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.109 |
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