Nursing Home Administration: Fourth Edition [Hardcover]

James E. Allen MSPH PhD CNHA (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 31, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0826153933 | ISBN-13: 978-0826153937 | Edition: 4

This highly readable and successful new edition contains the knowledge essential to prepare for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. The author uses the format of the licensing examination and the guidelines of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators as the basis for this text. The new edition contains updated or new material on: the use of computer networks and client server architecture; theories of aging; major organizations in long term care with website addresses ; the use of restraints; extensive data from the first ever national federal database on nursing facilities deficiency patterns from 1993-1999; first time information on the number of special care beds; new total nursing hour per resident day data; percent of chain-owned and hospital-owned nursing facilities; percent of residents with dementia; and more!

In conjunction with its supplement, The Licensing Exam Review Guide for Nursing Home Administration, this text has helped thousands of students become licensed nursing home administrators.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This 5th edition... continues to be one of the best texts in the field of nursing home administration. It incorporates a scholarly treatment of the five Domains of Practice developed by the National Association of Boards of Examiners for Long Term Care Administrators. This text is a good review of the core of knowledge of gerontology. Insights gained from mentors active in the field of nursing home administrators are incorporated in this text. ...I find the Allen text meets the learning needs of the entry level administrator. The reader will find the scope of the text to be challenging to his/her knowledge base, in addition to being an enhancer of personal philosophy of care and operation of the nursing facility. Studying this text will strengthen the administrator's ability to meet the demands of the regulations and residents. Open this text, begin your journey to richer understandings of the important field of nursing home administration."
--From the foreword by Philip S. Brown, ThM, MA, NHA --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

James E. Allen, MSPH, PhD, CNHA has over 30 years experience teaching and conducting research in the field of health care administration and is currently President of www.LongTermCareEducation.com .

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 640 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 4 edition (October 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826153933
• ISBN-13: 978-0826153937
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,036,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A core book, with a'lot of problems............., September 23, 2005

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P. B. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nursing Home Administration: Fourth Edition (Hardcover)

I'm a few short weeks away from taking the NAB exam to become a licensed nursing facility administrator. This book was the core text for the 5 courses required for licensure (at least it was where I attended, anyway.....to be more specific, it was the only textbook required for all 5 courses) - - a little disturbing when you think about it.

The book is so ripe with typos, it gets to be absolutely laughable......completely unacceptable. The trick, I'm told, to using this book and passing the NAB exam, is to simply train your brain to think like James Allen, PhD.

As a former state nursing facility surveyor (in Texas, no less - -a state that is brutal on nursing homes from a regulatory standpoint), I've seen a'lot of things in nursing homes - - both good things and bad. In one moment, I read Dr. Allen's words and think, "This guy's pretty sharp.", and the next minute, he's prattling on like some idealistic 20 year-old, and I'm thinking, "Has this guy ever actually ran a nursing home in his entire life?" Another core issues is: this guy IS NOT A NURSE and if he knew how much he embarasses himself when trying to talk about clinical issues, he'd stop re-writing this book. Trust me.....if you're over 25 years old, and have spent more than 3 hours handling some part of geriatirc operations, you'll find some of this guy's rambling to be pure comedy. While not relegated completely to geriatrics, this book is proof once again that the whole "gotta pass the board exam"-schtick is growing to be such a gross racket in this nation.

The book will teach you a little bit....primarily about circa 1970's and 1980's generic management theory....which this guy's brain must be totally overloaded with. Funny thing, is: why doesn't the book have photos, line drawings, better graphics? Most of the graphics are centered around teaching you the ADA requirements pretty much as they relate to Life Safety Code requirements- - not altogether worthless, but kind of a cop-out in my opinion.

If you're taking your 5 core courses needed to sit for the NAB exam, you'll probably have to buy this book......sorry about that. Read it, learn what you can from it.....keep the section on personnel managment......then use the remainder of it as confetti for your, "Hey I passed the NAB exam" party!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars CAN YOU SAY "TYPO", January 9, 2007

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Gary L. Foley (Grove City, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nursing Home Administration: Fourth Edition (Hardcover)

I'll be short and sweet about this. So you wanna be an LNHA, I suggest you get a hold of a lot more reading material than just this book. James Allen should be ashamed of his publisher -- there are millions of typos in it, and it is written straight out of the mind of a PH.D.

The book is very convoluted, but does contain much needed information you'll have to have for the NAB test. So too, you should buy the NAB book, along with a book by Hacker. Get ready to take a loan out, these books are not cheap. Then comes the test at $440.00, then another $250.00 for your license. Oh yeah, be sure to buy the test book that comes with this book(for an additional $35.00 or so), it does help.

In sum, I wish studying for the NAB was assigned a single text written in an exact format for which the test was exactly written. How it stands now there are at least three (3) texts (2 listed above and Allen's book) which I stongly recommend -- skip any others, you'll be spending money needlessly!

Good luck to us all and God bless America -- what's left of it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WORST.BOOK.EVER!!, February 25, 2008

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Matthew Ryan Sevier "Matt Sevier" (Cookeville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nursing Home Administration: Fifth Edition (Hardcover)

This tome, which is unfortunately required by most states as the core text for AIT programs, is a big stinking pile of horse manure. Information imparted here is horribly outdated and doesn't appear to have revised since at least the early 80s. It bothers me that Allen pretends to be either a nurse or a doctor in the section on resident health issues when he is in fact neither. I am also confused as to why so much of the chapters on government regulation focus on ADA while there is virtually nothing on the CMS survey process. This book teaches you nothing needed to actually practice as an administrator. The only foreseeable reason I can think of to get this book is to prepare for the NAB test, which is also horribly outdated and seems to be based on this book. The best way to change the culture of a nursing home is to burn this book and scatter the ashes, then never look back.