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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Care assistants"”.
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Service changes’ impact on outpatient nurses and health care assistants
… impact of service changes on nurses and healthcare assistants’ job motivation and wellbeing, in outpatient services within a large London acute healthcare organisation. While previous studies have focused on nurse staffing in inpatient settings, outpatient nurses are under-researched (Adynski …
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Who Cares? A Case Study to Explore Health Care Assistants' Jurisdiction in a Hospital Setting
… of work between HCAs and RNs in adult general care in one acute NHS hospital. The thesis makes use of an interactionist perspective to frame the study's examination of the micro-social processes surrounding the daily negotiation of HCAs' work. In doing so, connections are made to the wider …
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The experience of care assistants who care for residents in the final stage of life in residential aged care facilities
… of a study that explores the experience of care assistants who care for residents in the final stages of life in residential aged care facilities in metropolitan Perth. Care assistants, with little formal training and no regulation, play a pivotal role in the direct care of dying residents …
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Personal Support Workers/Health Care Assistants' Perceptions of Work Effectiveness: A Relationship Marketing and Intercultural Communication Competence Lens into Senior Care in Victoria, CMA, BC.
… among Personal Support Workers (PSWs) and healthcare assistants (HCAs) in Victoria, CMA, British Columbia, Canada. The research centers the experiences of PSWs/HCAs within prevailing organizational and systemic challenges in senior care. The integration of an interdisciplinary lens from RM and …
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An exploratory study of the lived experience of newly appointed Health Care Assistants (HCAs) during their first six months in a role within an Acute Hospital setting.
… the lived experience of newly appointed Health Care Assistants during their first six months in a role within an acute hospital setting. The focus of this research is unique in that it is a UK based study involving Health Care Assistants newly employed in an acute NHS Hospital. It is timely in …
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"""We don't like to call it lying, it's just therapeutic communication"": Understanding the influence of social support on coping with illness uncertainty"
… the importance of communication in providing care to patients; however, research on communication in particular nursing contexts has trailed behind training programs implemented to improve communication efforts. Training interventions are often limited by a cursory understanding of what makes …
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Influencing infection control practice: Assessing the impact of a supportive intervention for nurses
… this research was to examine nurses' and health care assistants' perspectives of infection control practice on one hospital ward and use this as the basis for the development, implementation and evaluation of an education and support programme for improving practice on the ward. In Phase I of the …
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Exploring the Implementation of Positive Behaviour Support as an Intervention for People with Intellectual Disabilities and Behaviours that Challenge
… that aimed to explore the experiences of health care assistants who used PBS in an inpatient service to support people with intellectual disabilities and behaviours that challenge. Six participants shared their experiences in semi-structured interviews. The transcripts were analysed using …
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Using Video Simulation to Enhance RN-PCA Communication
… between Registered Nurses (RNs) and Patient Care Assistants (PCAs). From a general microsystem assessment initially performed on an urban hospital medical-surgical unit, 75% of respondents noted that the most pertinent issue to address was improving communication between RNs and PCAs. …
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Enacting patient safety on the frontline: an ethnographic study of rescue work with acutely illpatients
… (180 hours), interviews (35) with health care assistants, nurses, doctors and managers, and documentary analysis. <br/>The findings expand understandings of rescue beyond reified, linear trajectories to include overlapping structural, technological and diagnostic influences. The thesis …
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An Empirical Study of Health Professionals' Beliefs about Personhood in Dementia and Their Influence on Intended Patient Care
… beliefs about the personhood of long-term care residents with dementia, and the influence of these beliefs on health providers' intended actions toward patients in the long-term care contexts. In Study I, a Likert-format measure of health providers' beliefs about the personhood of long-term …
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding the risk of Hepatitis E virus among the residents of Havana information settlement in Windhoek, Namibia
… and Rural Development train and employ health care assistants who could help the affected residents in the community on how to implement control measures that will minimize the risk of Hepatitis E virus among residents in the Havana informal settlement.
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"What I do, it's not little, it's really something": a political economy of migrant and minority ethnic care workers' experience in private older-age care in London, Paris and Madrid
… and minority ethnic workers for older-age care is related to patterns of inequality at the intersection of gender, employment, migration and care regimes. Building upon the possibilities opened up by the cross-national dimension of this research, the thesis presents a gendered political …
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Afghan women and the culture of care in a Kabul maternity hospital.
Female Afghan healthcare providers are vital to reduce the number of women dying in labour. Since 2001 the numbers of female providers have been substantially increased. Ensuring quality care for women in childbirth, however, remains a more elusive goal. The aim of this qualitative ethnographic …
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A pilot examination of quality and cost of long-term care settings in Illinois
Transitioning residents out of long-term care (LTC) institutions and back into the community has been shown to reduce Medicaid expenditure and improve quality of life for recipients of care. This research was conducted to build upon the findings of previous studies by contrasting components of cost …
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Skill mix in primary care : patient, professional and management perpectives
… and management of health services in Torbay Care Trust. It takes an overview of skill mix in primary care, considering the topic from the perspective of service recipients (patients), providers (professionals) and shapers and resourcers (management). The topic focuses on delegation and …
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Making the most of time: A Grounded Theory to explain what facilitates nursing home staff to connect with residents living with advanced dementia
… of a philosophy known as Person Centred Dementia Care. A significant body of literature demonstrates the effectiveness of a range of approaches that facilitate connections, yet, we know little about staff perspectives on what facilitates them to connect on a daily basis. Aim: To develop a Grounded …