Nursing Home Administration, Sixth Edition

Named a 2013 Doody's Essential Purchase!

The sixth edition of Nursing Home Administration contains essential information to prepare an individual for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. This book addresses all regulatory pieces of information to provide readers with an overview of the entire process of managing a nursing facility. This edition has been updated to reflect the most accurate and up-to-date information to reflect new legislation and regulations passed since previous edition in 2008.

This textbook serves as a roadmap for studying and understanding all the various requirements-management, human resources, finance and business, industry laws and regulations, and patient care. It demonstrates how all components fit together to form the coordinated activity set required of a successful nursing home administrator.

• Formatted according to licensing examination and guidelines of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators
• New federal guidelines to surveyors
• New resident assessment instrument
• Updated figures and tables
• New life safety code inspection processes
• New ICDM-10 (International Classification of Diseases-Modified)
• Sub-set of federal forms included in appendices
• Web references to enable the reader to successfully navigate the nursing home administration field