Sentences with phrase «associates visit nursing homes»

Launches outreach program — volunteers and associates visit nursing homes, senior citizen centers, etc., where puppies and therapy dogs bring joy and comfort to residents.

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In the third trial of the nurse home visitor program, nurse - visited, 6 - month - old infants born to mothers with low psychological resources (i.e., maternal IQ, mental health, and sense of efficacy) displayed fewer aberrant emotional expressions (e.g., low levels of affect and lack of social referencing of mother) associated with child maltreatment.18

Medicare supports home health services including visiting nurses and therapy, but according to Steven Landers, MD, MPH, clinical associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the current policy should be strengthened to limit fraud, provide consistent services nationally to reduce health disparities and allow for better care coordination.

Teachers in the CPC program have at least a bachelor's degree along with a certification in early childhood education.18 Staff compensation is relatively high compared to most preschool staff, mirroring the salary schedule of the Chicago Public School system, which reduces teacher turnover.19 In addition to teachers and classroom aides, students also are monitored by parent volunteers, home visit representatives, clerks, nurses, speech therapists, and other administrative staff who are associated with the public school program.

At the beginning of the 20th century, successful reductions in mortality from summer diarrhea in central New York City were demonstrated after using student nurses in the home to instruct mothers about hygiene and breastfeeding.4 Denmark established home visiting in 1937 after a pilot program showed lower infant mortality rates associated with home visiting.

However, for both child abuse and parent stress, the average effect sizes were not different from zero, suggesting a lack of evidence for effects in these areas.108 Earlier meta - analytic reviews have also noted the lack of sizable effects in preventing child maltreatment — again citing the different intensity of surveillance of families in the treatment versus control groups as an explanation (though the authors did report that home visiting was associated with an approximately 25 percent reduction in the rate of childhood injuries).109 Another review focusing on the quality of the home environment also found evidence for a significant overall effect of home - visiting programs.110 More recently, Harriet MacMillan and colleagues published a review of interventions to prevent child maltreatment, and identified the Nurse - Family Partnership and Early Start programs as the most effective with regard to preventing maltreatment and childhood injuries.

In the third trial of the nurse home visitor program, nurse - visited, 6 - month - old infants born to mothers with low psychological resources (i.e., maternal IQ, mental health, and sense of efficacy) displayed fewer aberrant emotional expressions (e.g., low levels of affect and lack of social referencing of mother) associated with child maltreatment.18

Improving the Nurse - Family Partnership in Community Practice Olds, Donelan - McCall, O'Brien, MacMillan, Jack, Jenkins, Dunlap, et al. (2013) Pediatrics, 132 (2) Provides a framework and illustrations to address challenges associated with the Nurse - Family Partnership home - visiting model and its implementation, as well as promising approaches for addressing these challenges.

Evaluations of home visiting programs show that MIECHV - funded services are associated with lower rates of domestic violence in a variety of contexts.42 For example, several evaluations of the Nurse - Family Partnership (NFP), an MIECVH - funded home visiting model operating in 42 states, showed that families who participate in the program across different locations were less likely to report domestic violence.43 In one study, about 7 percent of participating families in NFP reported experiencing domestic violence, compared with nearly 14 percent of nonparticipating families.44