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Sandra F. Simmons
Researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Publications - 142
Citations - 5304
Sandra F. Simmons is an academic researcher from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Minimum Data Set & Toileting. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 132 publications receiving 4900 citations. Previous affiliations of Sandra F. Simmons include Vanderbilt University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Relationship of nursing home staffing to quality of care.
John F. Schnelle,Sandra F. Simmons,Charlene Harrington,Mary P. Cadogan,Emily Garcia,Barbara M. Bates-Jensen +5 more
TL;DR: The highest-staffed NHs reported significantly lower resident care loads on all staffing reports and provided better care than all other homes.
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Translating clinical research into practice: a randomized controlled trial of exercise and incontinence care with nursing home residents.
John F. Schnelle,John F. Schnelle,Cathy A. Alessi,Cathy A. Alessi,Sandra F. Simmons,Nahla R. Al-Samarrai,John C. Beck,Joseph G. Ouslander +7 more
TL;DR: Clinical outcomes and staffing requirements of an incontinence and exercise intervention are examined and the staffing requirements are described to describe the staff requirements of this intervention.
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Functional Incidental Training, Mobility Performance, and Incontinence Care with Nursing Home Residents
TL;DR: To determine if an exercise intervention, Functional Incidental Training (FIT), results in improvements in mobility endurance and physical activity when compared with prompted voiding among cognitively and mobility impaired nursing home residents.
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Improving Food Intake in Nursing Home Residents With Feeding Assistance A Staffing Analysis
TL;DR: The time required to implement the feeding assistance intervention greatly exceeded the time the nursing staff spent assisting residents in usual mealtime care conditions, suggesting that it will almost certainly be necessary to both increase staffing levels and to organize staff better to produce higher quality feeding assistance during mealtimes.
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Individualized Feeding Assistance Care for Nursing Home Residents: Staffing Requirements to Implement Two Interventions
TL;DR: Most participants significantly increased their daily oral food and fluid intake in response to one of two individualized interventions, and the staff time necessary to implement each intervention was significantly greater than theStaff time currently being spent on feeding assistance care delivery.