FREQUENTLY CITED crite-riom for the selection of head nurses and supervisors is that they
be good bedside nurses and good staff nurses. When staff nurses and other health care …

GSZ for providing the nursing care of patients show every indication of remain-ing the most
stubborn-ly persistent shortage in the postwar readjustment of hospitals. It is but human for …

Within this issue of JAMDA, there are multiple articles that describe barriers and facilitators
to implementing and scaling evidence-based interventions in nursing homes (NHs) …

BACKGROUND: To determine, post‐OBRA 1987, medical organization in nursing facilities
(ie, medical director and staff profile, closing of medical staff, use of physician contract); …

This article reviews the history and structure of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). With particular focus on the Licensed Independent …

In this twentieth century the director of nursing should be a nurse. An effective administrator
acquires more general nursing knowledge as administrative knowledge and skill move into …

McMullen and Colleagues 1 have done an important analysis of certified nurse aide (CNA)
job tasks and potential expansion of their assigned duties in the most prevalent service role …

Selected leaders in hospital administration, nursing service administration, nursing
education, medicine, and governing boards convened at the AHA's invitational conference …

I originally wanted to write to you to correct a misstatement made in an editorial in the
March/April edition of JAMDA on staffing ratios, 1 and I will get to that in a moment. However …

This article identifies key areas of physician performance in nursing homes (NHs) cited by
state regulators. Six faculty members of the University of Maryland Department of Family …