Care assistants
Is it a dangerous game? : registered nurses' experiences of working with care assistants in a public hospital setting : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Nursing at Massey University
... Issues from the literature included changing trends and the use of care assistants, the lack of clarity of the care assistant's role, registered nurses' attitudes towards care assistants[r] ...
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The provision of emotional labour by health care assistants caring for dying cancer patients in the community: a qualitative study into the experiences of health care assistants and bereaved carers
... This situation is interesting in the light of concerns raised about the lack of definition and regulation of the HCA role. HCAs’ position as unqualified and non-regulated staff has recently been highlighted in the ...
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Who Cares? A Case Study to Explore Health Care Assistants' Jurisdiction in a Hospital Setting
... 'Qualified' Workers: HCAs Educated To Varying Levels 186 The Importance Of Learning On-The-Job And Training Opportunities For HCAs' Work SUMMARY 189 191 CHAPTER 7- THE SHAPING OF HEALTH [r] ...
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A postgraduate Optimum Birth module to increase midwives’ readiness to work in midwifery-led settings: A mixed-methods evaluation
... maternity care assistants, obstetricians and midwives; advanced level training for midwives comprising two half-day workshops on advanced skills for Optimum Birth and skills and drills for midwifery-led ...
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The Evidence of Interdisciplinary Teamwork in the Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients with Aphasia
... health care assistants and therapy assistants worked to- gether in groups of approximately 20 ...primary care physician and a community continence adviser cooperated and linked the patient to ...
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Lived Experience, Stakeholder Evaluation and the Participatory Design of Assisted Living Technology
... In support of stakeholder design/evaluation activities, a ‘Community of Practice’ (COP) [19] has been formed comprising both internal and external stakeholders. Both internal and external stakeholders participate in ...
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Introducing the Care Certificate evaluation (innovative practice)
... that care staff often lacked clarity in their role and felt undervalued and underutilised with negative implications for the care they ...Fundamental Care – now called the ‘Care Certificate’ ...
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Creating learning environments for compassionate care (CLECC): a feasibility study
... in care were important outcomes for the PPI ...as care assistants, developing researcher guidance on approaching family carers to participate in research, and developing ways to include people with ...
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Allied health assistants and what they do: A systematic review of the literature
... health care assistants or rehabilitation assistants who work in multiple settings or are not specifically affiliated to a health ...patient care and indirect support via clerical and ...
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... health assistants, infrequent monitoring and supervision from higher authority might be the other possible ...health care delivery system and the first contact point between the patients and health system, ...
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Self-competence in death work among health and social care workers: a region-wide survey in Hong Kong
... life Care Capacity Building Programme, as the first step of a wider quality improvement ...personal care workers (patient care assistants and healthcare assistants), social workers and ...
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Advanced practice nurses in primary care in Switzerland: an analysis of interprofessional collaboration
... optimal care for patients ...patient care and safety, de- crease complications, and reduce mortality rates ...(patient-centred care and interprofessional communi- ...
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Characteristics of primary care office visits to nurse practitioners, physician assistants and physicians in United States Veterans Health Administration facilities, 2005 to 2010:a retrospective cross-sectional analysis
... Our results are strengthened by the high quality of the medical record data we used. The data are national in scope, reflecting the experience of veterans across the country. Data were recorded as part of routine admin- ...
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Educational intervention to improve effectiveness in treatment and control of patients with high cardiovascular risk in low-resource settings in Argentina: study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial
... primary care centres in Argentina to be randomised to either the intervention or usual ...pharmacist assistants during the first EOV is performed at each intervention ...
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<p>Dementia Care Education Targeting Job Strain and Organizational Climate Among Dementia Care Specialists in Swedish Home Care Services</p>
... high-quality care for persons with dementia, developed by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, emphasize evi- dence-based care, building on a person-centered approach to the provision of ...
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Falls in the residential independent care sector: ambiguity in guidelines and policies for healthcare assistants
... Raising awareness of the implications of the unnecessary use of emergency services is pivotal if the wasting of resources for emergency care is to be prevented. If organisations are to realise the fiscal expense ...
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The determination of the pain beliefs of the students at Akdeniz University Vocational School of Health Services
... There were a few studies in the literature which use PBQ to examine pain beliefs of patients with chronic pain and students at university. It was determined that organic pain beliefs of chronic pain patient were stronger ...
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Bench to bedside review: Dealing with increased intensive care unit staff turnover: a leadership challenge
... in another clinical unit or in another nonclinical activity; ‘role redesign’, the flexibility to move “tasks up or down, expanding the breadth/depth of a role” [8]; ‘family-friendly’ policies, such as subsidies or onsite ...
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Career breaks and intentions for retirement by Queensland's nurses - a sign of the times?
... unregulated assistants in nursing in the workforce are unknown and the inherent limitation is ...of assistants in nursing in the dataset is fully warranted as the vast majority of nursing support in the ...
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A designated centre for people with disabilities operated by Muiriosa Foundation, Kildare
... The inspector found that residents had appropriate access to General Practitioner (GP), Psychiatry, Psychology, Physiotherapist, Dentist, Occupational Therapist, Chiropodist and Speech and Language Therapy (SALT). The ...
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