Public Policy & Aging Report Special Issue: 2022 NASEM Quality of Nursing Home Report - Moving Recommendations to Action
Public Policy & Aging Report (PP&AR) has released a Special Issue, "2022 NASEM Quality of Nursing Home Report: Moving Recommendations to Action."
The issue of PP&AR, a publication of the Gerontological Society of America, focuses on specific evidence-based recommendations from the 2022 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report, “The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality.”
“Now that these recommendations are out in the public, this special issue is just one of many efforts the committee has undertaken to ensure that the recommendations don’t just sit on the shelves of those who are going to be key to moving them into action,” said Jasmine L. Travers, PhD, RN, MHS, assistant professor at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing who served on the NASEM committee, and who served as editor for the issue.
Five articles co-authored by seven committee members focus on specific recommendations of the NASEM report and how relevant stakeholders can move those recommendations into action. The authors:
- Highlight the need for minimum degree and certification requirements for staff, greater hours in training for certified nursing assistants, geriatric-specific content in curricula, and experiential learning.
- Delineate several pragmatic approaches to encourage the successful development, implementation, and maintenance of care models that deliver comprehensive, person-centered, and equitable care to residents.
- Review existing federal policies to identify how these policies align with the committee’s recommendations specific to certified nursing assistants.
- Highlight the need for alternative payment models that incentivize safety and quality.
- Underscore the importance of financial support from state and federal governments to promote successful implementation of health information technology.
Editorial:
Articles:
- Policy Priorities for a Well-Prepared Nursing Home Workforce
- Care Delivery, Quality Measurement, and Quality Improvement in Nursing Homes: Issues and Recommendations from the National Academies’ Report on the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes
- Certified Nursing Assistants: Exploring the Federal Policy Landscape and Discussion of the National Academies Workforce Recommendations
- Paying for Nursing Home Quality: An Elusive But Important Goal
- Probing into Federal Policies and National Academies’ Recommendations to Adopt Health Information Technology in All U.S. Nursing Homes
Editorial:
Support for this issue of PP&AR was provided by The John A. Hartford Foundation.
Go to the Special Issue.
Go to the press release.
Go to the NASEM report.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of NASEM.