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ArticleNursing outlook

Expert nurse response to workforce recommendations made by The Coronavirus Commission For Safety And Quality In Nursing Homes.

Deb Bakerjian, Marie Boltz, Barbara Bowers, Deanne Gray-Miceli, Charlene Harrington, Ann Kolanowski, Christine A Mueller

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Article in Nursing outlook. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Long-Term Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned.The Nursing clinics of North America · 2023
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  10. Nontraditional Small House Nursing Homes Have Fewer COVID-19 Cases and Deaths.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2021
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  11. Hope Springs Eternal: Can Project ECHO Transform Nursing Homes?Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Deb BakerjianBetty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA. 95616.
Marie BoltzCollege of Nursing, Penn State, University Park, Pa.16802.
Barbara BowersSchool of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.
Deanne Gray-MiceliCollege of Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107.
Charlene HarringtonSchool of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA. 94143.
Ann KolanowskiCollege of Nursing, Penn State, University Park, Pa.16802. Electronic address: amk20@psu.edu.
Christine A MuellerSchool of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455.
Pennsylvania State University · USThomas Jefferson University · USUC Davis Health · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Minnesota · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 has exposed the longstanding internal problems in nursing homes and the weak structures and policies that are meant to protect residents. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services convened the Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in NHs in April, 2020 to address this situation by recommending steps to improve infection prevention and control, safety procedures, and the quality of life of residents in nursing homes. The authors of this paper respond to the Final Report of the Commission and put forth additional recommendations to federal policymakers for meaningful nursing home reform: 1) ensuring 24/7 registered nurse (RN) coverage and adequate compensation to maintain total staffing levels that are based on residents' care needs; 2) ensuring RNs have geriatric nursing and leadership competencies; 3) increasing efforts to recruit and retain the NH workforce, particularly RNs; and 4) supporting care delivery models that strengthen the role of the RN for quality resident-centered care.

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AgedCOVID-19HumansInfection ControlNursing HomesNursing StaffPersonnel Staffing and SchedulingQuality of Health CareUnited StatesNursing home reformNursing homesStaffing levels

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PMID33993987
PMCPMC8020094
OpenAlexW3143301154

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