During the nineteenth and the twentieth century, the term “nursing home” was synonymous with long-term care. Although today the exclusive use of the term “long-term care” is no longer accurate for nursing homes, it continues to remain and will not change easily. However, newer terms such as “nursing facilities” will help clarify the role of specific long-term care organizations and will differentiate them from others in the health care industry.
Subacute care is a relatively new but rapidly growing medical service in the continuum of care. Today, it is considered the fastest growing segment of the health care delivery system.
Research the online references such as EBSCOhost, SocINDEX, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), or PubMed for information on nursing facilities and subacute units and respond to the following questions:
• Do you agree with the change in the terminology of nursing homes to nursing facilities? Why or why not? How do the terms relate with each other?
• What impact does the historical perspective of the nursing home have on the stigma related to the quality of care?
• How were nursing facilities developed? What have been the consequences of the change in terminology? Do you think the change in terminology will impact the quality of care in the future? If yes, how? If no, why?
• What changes do you see nursing homes making in the future in order to keep up with the ever changing needs of the demographics of seniors?
• What are subacute units? How did subacute care emerge? What are the strengths and limitations of the emergence of subacute care in long-term care as related to issues in levels of patients’ acuity (various levels of nursing care based on the needs of patients)? Support your answer with relevant examples.
• What is the impact of subacute care on the cost and quality of care? Do you think subacute care needs to be an integral component of hospitals, or should it be an integral part of the long-term care system? Provide a rationale for your answer.
Based on your learning about nursing home care and subacute care, compare their funding, staffing, regulation, and marketing.

Power point Presentation (20 slides each WITH NOTES, GRAPHICS)

Topics:

1. How to improve Nutrition in the elderly. Target group is nursing staff from one facility.

2. Diabetes in Older Adults. Target group is nursing staff from one facility.

3. How to Overcome Language Barriers in Healthcare. Target group is nursing staff from one facility.

Provide a comprehensive statement of the problem using the epidemiological process including the distribution, determinants, and deterrents.

Incorporate at least four current literature review findings as a theoretical base for your project/paper.

Describe community resources available to meet the need of the specific community in this problem area. Summarize the resources available and describe their effectiveness for the community.

Describe your selected group. Identify and summarize the learner needs of your selected group. What are the needs? Why does this group need to be educated on your chosen topic?

Identify and describe developmental and teaching/learning theory/theories used and why they are appropriate to the learners you targeted.

Describe in behavioral terms your specific planning process for your project and overall teaching goal for your participants.

Evaluate your teaching experience. Reflect on the following questions. What went well? What did not? What would you change if you were teaching this topic to a similar group at a later date and why?

RUBRICS

Provides a comprehensive statement of the problem using the epidemiological process including the distribution, determinants, and deterrents. Describes the selected group, and identifies and summarizes the learner needs of the selected group, including why this group needs to be educated on the chosen topic.

Describes the community resources available to meet the need of the specific community in this problem area. Summarizes the resources available and describes their effectiveness for the community. Identifies and describes developmental and teaching/learning theory/theories used and why they are appropriate to the learners targeted. Describes in behavioral terms the specific planning process for the project and overall teaching goal for the participants. Incorporates at least four current literature review findings as a theoretical base for the project/paper.

Evaluates the teaching experience. Reflects on the following questions: What went well? What did not go well? What would you change if you were teaching this topic to a similar group at a later date and why?

Writing is clear, concise, formal, and organized. Slides are mostly error free. Information from sources is paraphrased appropriately and accurately referenced and cited in APA style. A title slide, clear introduction and conclusion, and reference slide are included. The number of references required by the assignment is presented. In-text APA citations are used in the presentation.

Good language skills and pronunciation is used; information is well communicated. Still images of the lessons are included if actual video is not.