Improving documentation of aggressive behavior in nursing home residents.
1. Although 66% of the 1.3 million elderly nursing home residents in the US exhibit aggressive tendencies, research indicates that caregivers underdocument aggressive incidents. As a result, the extent of aggression is unknown. 2. This study found that LPNs reported the largest percentage (41%) of the 51 documented aggressive incidents, which reportedly occurred most frequently in the bathroom (49% of the time) between 5 AM and noon (86% of the time). Most aggressive residents (55.1%) never had visitors. 3. This study concludes that nursing practice would benefit from a consistent definition of aggression, an easy-to-use clinical instrument to collect data on aggression, and caregiver education programs on assessing aggression.
Beck
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Robinson
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Baldwin
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D000368:Aged; D000374:Aggression; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes