This highly readable and successful new edition contains the knowledge essential to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. The author uses the format of the licensing examination and the guidelines of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators as the basis for this text. The new edition contains updated or new material on: the use of computer networks and client server architecture; theories of aging; major organizations in long term care with website addresses; the use of restraints; extensive data from the first ever national federal database on nursing facilities deficiency patterns from 1993-1999; first time information on the number of special care beds; new total nursing hour per resident day data; percent of chain-owned and hospital-owned nursing facilities; percent of residents with dementia; and more! In conjunction with its supplement, "The Licensing Exam Review Guide for Nursing Home Administration", this text has helped thousands of students become licensed nursing home administrators.
- ISBN10 0826153933
- ISBN13 9780826153937
- Publish Date 31 October 2002
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 14 November 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 4th Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 640
- Language English