Multilevel factors related to psychosocial care outcomes in Washington state skilled nursing facilities

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-223

  Bonifas, Robin P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nursing homes; Psychosocial care; Resident centered outcomes; Skilled nursing facilities; Social services; Social workers; Survey deficiencies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WASHINGTON;

EID: 78651486677     PISSN: 01634372     EISSN: 15404048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2010.538817     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. American Health Care Association. (2006). The long term care survey, June 2006 edition. Washington DC: Author.
2. Anderson, R. A., Hsieh, P., & Su, H. (1998). Resource allocation and resident outcomes in nursing homes: Comparisons between the best and the worst. Research in Nursing and Health, 21, 297-313.
3. Anderson, R. A., Issel, L. M., & McDaniel, R. R., Jr. (2003). Nursing homes as complex adaptive systems: Relationship between management practices and resident outcomes. Nursing Research, 52, 12-21.
4. Banaszak-Holl, M., Berta, W. B., Bowman, D. M., Baum, J. A. C., & Mitchell, W. (2002). The rise of human service chains: Antecedents to acquisitions and their effects on the quality of care in U.S. nursing homes. Managerial and Decision Economics, 23, 261-282.
5. Bern-Klug, M., Kramer, K. W. O., Sharr, P., & Cruz, I. (2010). Nursing home social services directors' opinions about the number of residents they can serve. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 22, 35-52.
6. Bonifas, R. P. (2007). Multi-level factors related to deficiencies in psychosocial care in Washington state skilled nursing facilities. Dissertation Abstracts International Section A: Humanities and Social Sciences, 68(8-A), 3588.
7. Bravo, G., DeWals, P., Dubois, M., & Charpentier, M. (1999). Correlates of care quality in long-term care facilities: A multilevel analysis. Journals of Gerontology, 54B, 180-188.
8. Castle, N. G. (2005). Nursing home closures, changes in ownership, and competition. Inquiry, 42, 281-292.
9. Castle, N. G. (2001). Innovations in nursing homes: Which facilities are the early adopters? Gerontologist, 41, 161-172.
10. Castle, N. G. (2000). Differences in nursing homes with increasing and decreasing use of physcial restraints. Medical Care, 38, 1154-1163.
11. Castle, N. G., & Shea, D. G. (1997). Mental health services and the mortality of nursing home residents. Journal of Aging and Health, 9, 498-513.
12. Connolly, B., Nitsch, J., & Panicker, A. (2005). Regulatory approaches to measuring psychosocial service quality. In B. Vourlekis, J. L. Zlotnik, & K. Simons (Eds.), Evaluating social work services in nursing homes: Toward quality psychosocial care and its measurement (pp. 17-20). Washington DC: Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Reseach.
13. Dane, B. O., & Simon, B. L. (1991). Resident guests: Social workers in host settings. Social Work, 36, 208-213.
14. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General. (2003). Psychosocial services in skilled nursing facilities. Retrieved from http://www.oig.hhs.gov.oei-02-01-00610.pdf.
15. Dillman, D. A. (2000). Mail and internet surveys: The tailored design method (2nd ed.). New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons.
16. Donabedian, A. (1988). The quality of care: How can it be assessed? Journal of the American Medical Association, 206, 1743-1748.
17. Dziegieleski, S. F. (2004). The changing face of health care social work: Professional practice in manage behavioral health care (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer.
18. Fairchild-Remsen, M. (1993). The role of the nursing home social worker in terminal care. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 19(3/4), 193-205.
19. Fiske, H. (2002). Nursing home social work: Turnover turmoil. Social Work Today, 2(19), 10-12.
20. Economic Research Service. (n.d.). Rural-Urban Continuum Codes. Retrieved from http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/RuralUrbanContinuumCodes.
21. Gammonley, D., Zhang, N. J., Frahm, K., & Paek, S. C. (2009). Social service staffing in U.S. nursing homes. Social Service Review, 83, 633-650.
22. General Accounting Office. (2003). Nursing home quality prevalence of serious problems, while declining, reinforces importance of enhanced oversight. Retrived from http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-561.
23. Gleason-Wynn, P., & Mindel, H. (1999). A proposed model for predicting job satisfaction among nursing home social workers. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 32(3), 65-79.
24. Greene, R. R., Graham, S. A., Haulotte, S. M., Nixon-Garcia, C., & Gleason-Wynn, P. (2005). The nursing home crisis: A consumer study of Texas nursing home care. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 45(4), 101-123.
25. Harrington, C., Woolhandler, S., Mullan, J., Carrillo, H., & Himmelstein, D. U. (2002). Does investor-ownership of nursing homes compromise quality of care? International Journal of Health Services, 32, 315-325.
26. Harrington, C., Zimmerman, D., Karon, S. L., Robinson, J., & Beutel, P. (2000). Nursing home staffing and its relationship to deficiencies. Journal of Gerontology, 55B, S278-S287.
27. Kruzich, J. (2005). Ownership, chain affiliation and administrator decision-making autonomy in long-term care facilities. Administration in Social Work, 29(1), 5-24.
28. Kruzich, J. (2000). Correlates of nursing home satisfaction. In J. Cohen-Mansfield, F. Ejaz, & P. Werner (Eds.). Satisfaction surveys in long-term care (pp. 112-140). New York, NY: Springer.
29. Kruzich, J., Clinton, J. F., & Kelber, S. T. (1992). Personal and environmental influences on nursing home satisfaction. Gerontologist, 32, 342-350.
30. Kruzich, J., & Powell, W. E. (1995). Decision-making influence: An empirical study of social workers in nursing homes. Health and Social Work, 20, 215-222.
31. Lee, R. H., Gajewski, B. J., & Thompson, S. (2006). Reliability of the nursing home survey process: A simultaneous survey approach. Gerontologist, 46, 772-780.
32. Lehning, A. J., & Austin, M. J. (2010). Long-term care in the United States: Policy themes and promising practices. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 53, 43-63.
33. McCall, G. J., & Simmons, J. L. (1978). Identities and interactions: An examination of human associations in everyday life (rev. ed.). New York, NY: Free Press.
34. Mor, V., Zinn, J., Angelilli, J, Teno, J. M., & Miller, S. C. (2004). Driven to tiers: Socioeconomic and racial disparities in the quality of nursing home care. Milbank Quarterly, 82, 227-256.
35. Mukamel, D. B. (1997). Risk-adjusted outcome measures and quality of care in nursing homes. Medical Care, 35, 367-385.
36. O'Neill, J. (2002, April). Inappropriate tasks, lax enforcement, high turnover: Nursing home social work in doldrums. NASW News. Retrieved from http://www.naswdc.org/pubs/news/2002/04/doldrums.htm
37. O'Neill, J., & Rosen, A. L. (1998). Professional social work services in skilled nursing facilities: Survey of current practice and recommendations. Washington, DC: National Associational of Social Workers.
38. Parker-Oliver, D., &, Kurzejeski, L. S. (2003). Nursing home social services: Policy and practice. Social Work, 42(2), 37-50.
39. Rosen, A. L., & Zlotnik, J. L. (2001). Demographics and reality: The "disconnect" in social work education. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 36(3/4), 81-97.
40. Santo-Novak, D. A., Duncan, J. W., Grissom, K. R., & Powers, R. E. (2001). MSHAKE: A tool for measuring staff knowledge related to geriatric mental health. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 27(2), 29-35.
41. Siebert, D.C., & Siebert, C.F. (2005). The Caregiver Role Identity Scale: A validation study. Research on Social Work Practice, 15, 204-212.
42. Simons, K. V. (2006). Organizational characteristics influencing nursing home social services directors' qualifications: A national study. Health and Social Work, 31, 266-274.
43. Tabachnick, B. G., & Fidell, L. S. (1989). Using multivariate statistics (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Harper Collins.
44. Tirrito, T. (1996). Mental health problems and behavioral disruptions in nursing homes: Are social workers prepared to provide needed services? Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 27(1/2), 73-86.
45. Tsoukalas, T., Rudder, C., Mollot, R. J., Shineman, M., Lee, H. Y., & Harrington, C. (2006). The collection and use of funds from civil money penalties and fines from nursing homes. Gerontologist, 46, 759-771.
46. Vourlekis, B. S., Gelfand, D. E., & Greene, R. R. (1992a). Psychosocial needs and care in nursing homes: Comparison of views of social service professionals and home administrators. Gerontologist, 32, 113-119.
47. Vourlekis, B. S., Greene, R. R., Gelfand, D. E., & Zlotnik, J. L. (1992b). Searching for the doable in nursing home social work practice. Social Work in Health Care, 17(3), 45-70.
48. Vourlekis, B., Zlotnik, J. L. & Simons, K. (2005). Evaluating social work services in nursing homes: Toward quality psychosocial care and its measurement. Washington DC: Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research.
49. Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. (n.d.). Directory of nursing homes: General information. Retrieved from http://www.aasa.dshs. wa.gov/Professional/NFDir/General.asp.
50. Weiner, J. M. (2003). As assessment of strategies for improving quality of care in nursing homes. Gerontologist, 42, 19-27.