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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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Autores principales: Nguyen, Kristine P., Singh, Raveena D., Saavedra, Raheeb, Billimek, John T., Tam, Steven P., Steinberg, Karl E., Porter, Lori, Mitchell, John, Huang, Susan S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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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.
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Mitchell, John
Huang, Susan S.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.109
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