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The pain experience of cognitively impaired nursing home residents: perceptions of family members and certified nursing assistantsJanet C Mentes
UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pain Manag Nurs 5:118-25. 2004..Information from multiple sources can improve pain management strategies for cognitively impaired NH residents...
On being 100 and healthy. Healthy aging starts nowJanet C Mentes
J Gerontol Nurs 32:6. 2006
Measuring risk for dehydration in nursing home residents: evaluation of the dehydration risk appraisal checklistJanet C Mentes
School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 6919, USA
Res Gerontol Nurs 4:148-56. 2011..The psychometric properties of the DRAC indicate that it has potential in determining dehydration risk in NH residents. Future refinement of the instrument is also discussed...
Oral hydration in older adults: greater awareness is needed in preventing, recognizing, and treating dehydrationJanet Mentes
University of California, Los Angeles School of Nursing, USA
Am J Nurs 106:40-9; quiz 50. 2006..This article reviews age-related changes, risk factors, assessment measures, and nursing interventions for dehydration...
Use of a urine color chart to monitor hydration status in nursing home residentsJanet C Mentes
University of California, Los Angeles School of Nursing, CA 90095 6919, USA
Biol Res Nurs 7:197-203. 2006..64, p < .01). Ucol averaged over several individual readings offers another tool in assessing hydration status in Caucasian nursing home residents with adequate renal function measures by estimated CrCl values...
Keeping nursing home residents hydratedJanet C Mentes
School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, 90095 6919, USA
West J Nurs Res 28:392-406; discussion 407-18. 2006..NH staff members identify the complexity of providing adequate hydration that was influenced by the resident's relationship with family and NH staff and communication between staff members...
A typology of oral hydration problems exhibited by frail nursing home residentsJanet C Mentes
UCLA School of Nursing, Los Angeles, California 90095-6919, USA
J Gerontol Nurs 32:13-9; quiz 20-1. 2006..Nursing interventions for the subgroups are discussed. Targeting nursing interventions to the specific hydration problem exhibited is proposed...
Human patient simulation: state of the science in prelicensure nursing educationMary Ann Shinnick
University of California at Los Angeles School of Nursing, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
J Nurs Educ 50:65-72. 2011..This article reviews the current research in the areas of HPS value perceptions and studies of HPS impact on knowledge and knowledge transfer among nurses...
Reducing hydration-linked events in nursing home residentsJanet C Mentes
School of Nursing, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Clin Nurs Res 12:210-25; discussion 226-8. 2003..Although there were no statistically significant differences between the groups, it is clinically significant that the frailer, more at-risk participants in the treatment group had a lower incidence of HLEs...
Barriers and facilitators in nursing home intervention researchJanet C Mentes
School of Nursing, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
West J Nurs Res 24:918-36. 2002....
Detection of acute confusion in Taiwanese elderly individualsJeng Wang
Department of Nursing, Chang-Gung Institution of Technology, Tao Yuan, Taiwan
J Gerontol Nurs 32:7-12. 2006
Agitated behavior as a prodromal symptom of physical illness: A case of influenzaDiana Lynn Woods
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1953-4. 2006
