Sandra F Simmons
Biographic Data
| ID | 5536459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra F Simmons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra F |
| FAMILY NAME | Simmons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMMONS S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2576-327X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Resident Complaints About the Nursing Home Food Service
Most nursing home (NH) residents are not interviewed about their satisfaction with the food service due to cognitive impairment. The purpose of this study was to determine the proportion of NH residents able to complete a structured interview to assess food complaints when no cognitive status criteria were used to exclude residents from interview. Eighty-nine percent of 163 residents were able and willing to complete the interview, and 65% expres…
A Refined Protocol for Coding Nursing Home Residents' Comments During Satisfaction Interviews
The refined method offers a systematic way to code residents' comments about their care into unmet needs related to the manner and frequency of care delivery. The findings have direct implications for the identification of care areas in need of improvement from the resident's perspective and the evaluation of improvement efforts
The Minimum Data Set Urinary Incontinence Quality Indicators
PURPOSE: To determine if nursing homes that score in the lower 25th percentile (low prevalence) versus the upper 75th percentile (high prevalence) on each of two Minimum Data Set (MDS) incontinence quality indicators provide different incontinence care processes DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SUBJECTS: 347 long-term residents in 14 skilled nursing facilities for the MDS "prevalence of incontinence" indicator and 432 residents in 16 skilled nursing faci…
Selection Bias in Samples of Older Twins
Twin studies are a powerful approach for estimating genetic and environmental influences in later life, but the usual requirement that both twins are alive may introduce a selection bias in gerontological studies relative to representative samples of nontwins. In the present study, samples of older twins and nontwins in Sweden were compared across the domains of vitality, well-being, physical and cognitive functioning, and health utilization to e…
Nursing Care of the Terminal Patient
This article reports on a study of fifty-one hospitalized dying patients who were interviewed by a nurse to determine: (1) if the dying patient would discuss his diagnosis, death, or dying if given the opportunity; and (2) what implications for nursing action the information obtained during these interviews would have. Forty-seven of the 51 patients interviewed did openly discuss or allude to these topics and verbatim accounts of some conversatio…
Selection Bias in Samples of Older Twins
Twin studies are a powerful approach for estimating genetic and environmental influences in later life, but the usual requirement that both twins are alive may introduce a selection bias in gerontological studies relative to representative samples of nontwins. In the present study, samples of older twins and nontwins in Sweden were compared across the domains of vitality, well-being, physical and cognitive functioning, and health utilization to e…
Nursing Care of the Terminal Patient
This article reports on a study of fifty-one hospitalized dying patients who were interviewed by a nurse to determine: (1) if the dying patient would discuss his diagnosis, death, or dying if given the opportunity; and (2) what implications for nursing action the information obtained during these interviews would have. Forty-seven of the 51 patients interviewed did openly discuss or allude to these topics and verbatim accounts of some conversatio…
Selection Bias in Samples of Older Twins
Twin studies are a powerful approach for estimating genetic and environmental influences in later life, but the usual requirement that both twins are alive may introduce a selection bias in gerontological studies relative to representative samples of nontwins. In the present study, samples of older twins and nontwins in Sweden were compared across the domains of vitality, well-being, physical and cognitive functioning, and health utilization to e…
The Minimum Data Set Urinary Incontinence Quality Indicators
PURPOSE: To determine if nursing homes that score in the lower 25th percentile (low prevalence) versus the upper 75th percentile (high prevalence) on each of two Minimum Data Set (MDS) incontinence quality indicators provide different incontinence care processes DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SUBJECTS: 347 long-term residents in 14 skilled nursing facilities for the MDS "prevalence of incontinence" indicator and 432 residents in 16 skilled nursing faci…
A Refined Protocol for Coding Nursing Home Residents' Comments During Satisfaction Interviews
The refined method offers a systematic way to code residents' comments about their care into unmet needs related to the manner and frequency of care delivery. The findings have direct implications for the identification of care areas in need of improvement from the resident's perspective and the evaluation of improvement efforts
Resident Complaints About the Nursing Home Food Service
Most nursing home (NH) residents are not interviewed about their satisfaction with the food service due to cognitive impairment. The purpose of this study was to determine the proportion of NH residents able to complete a structured interview to assess food complaints when no cognitive status criteria were used to exclude residents from interview. Eighty-nine percent of 163 residents were able and willing to complete the interview, and 65% expres…
Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (3 works) · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Nursing homes (2 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · Active listening (1 works) · Activities of daily living (1 works)