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Article: Prompted voiding enters the computer age: report on a work in progress. (computer program for nursing home management)
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- Nursing Homes
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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A computer program to enhance patient selection, evaluation and staff motivation may be available soon
A comprehensive, computer program designed to assist nursing homes in implementing prompted voiding programs is now under going final study. It is proving useful in selecting appropriate candidates for the intervention, encouraging staff involvement, and maintaining and evaluating the program's efficacy. The program is expected to be available to nursing homes by December, 1994.
Often nursing home staff automatically toilet residents without first asking them if they need to toilet. This approach is not only demeaning to the resident, but also decreases the ...