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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"personal support"”.
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Understanding personal support workers and their role in Ontario.
There are an estimated 90,000 personal support workers (PSWs) in Ontario providing assistance with daily activities for individuals in hospitals, long-term care facilities, adult day programs and home care yet little is known about them. (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care [MOHLTC], …
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Exploring Perceptions of Aging and Ageism Among Personal Support Workers
Personal Support Workers (PSWs) contribute approximately 80% of the direct care provided to older adults in a variety of care settings. There is a dearth of research on PSW perspectives despite their essential role as part of multi-professional care teams. The objective of this study was to examine …
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Policy priorities for aging adults with autism: Perspectives of personal support persons
… opportunity to discover and implement effective support systems. By learning more about the specific needs of adults with autism, we can develop targeted interventions and resources that empower them to thrive throughout their lives. This could encompass everything from social connection programs …
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The Effect of Income Level on the Relationship Between the Personal Support Matrix and Sustained Breastfeeding
… continue to fall. It was hypothesized that the support system of the women may play a role in the duration of breastfeeding. The purpose of this research study was to investigate the support system and breastfeeding rates of mothers during the first six weeks after delivery and to determine if …
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Middle managers in ambidextrous organizations : the challenges of being led, leading others and obtaining personal support
… face as “followers” and “leaders” and the support measures they need in organisations that are under pressure to manage the business of today while creating a new business for tomorrow. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative, semi-structured interviews of 12 middle managers and two …
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Exploring the Perceptions of Cultural Competence Among Personal Support Workers in an Ontario Long-Term Care Home: A Case Study
Personal Support Workers (PSWs) spend a large amount of time with long-term care (LTC) home residents providing assistance with their activities of daily living. The s limited research on their perceptions of cultural competence presents the need to bridge this knowledge gap. The researcher …
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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.
… perceptions of work effectiveness 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 …
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Nurses' Stress, Support, and Need for a Support Group: A Comparison of Critical Care and Surgical Nurses
… the level of stress, the level of social support, and the need for a support group as perceived by nurses working on selected nursing units.<br> 2. To determine the correlation between nurses' perceived need for a support group and the following:<br> a. nurses' perceived intensity of …
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Vicarious Traumatization in Therapists: Contributing Factors, PTSD Symptomatology, and Cognitive Distortions
… completed a survey that examines the impact of personal and professional factors on vicarious traumatization. Quantitative results indicated that therapists' personal variables of sex, personal trauma history, and current stressfulness of personal trauma predict PTSD symptoms, while variables …
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Factors that influence adjustment to postsecondary institutions as perceived by students with learning disabilities in Virginia
… designed to determine what types of academic and personal support services LD students consider helpful in making their adjustment to college life; what services they use most often; what impact the type of learning disability has on service preference; and what impact the type of institution …
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Restorative Care Unit: A Focused Ethnography of Leadership in a 20- Bed Hospital
… [RNs], registered practical nurses [RPNs] and personal support workers [PSWs]) shared experiences, and the contextual factors that impacted the culture of the RCU. Critical Social Theory and intersectionality (Hankivsky & Christoffersen, 2008) provided the theoretical basis for the study …
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Examining Variation in Access to Long-term Home Care Services for Ontario Seniors
… home-based nursing services alone, home-based supportive care services alone, and home-based nursing and supportive care services together. Results: Personal characteristics, caregiver characteristics and regional characteristics were found to affect all dimensions of access. Factors associated …
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Exploring Health Care Aides' Perspectives on Work Life in Long-Term Care
… five themes: (a) complex resident care, (b) personal safety, (c) communication with leadership, (d) staffing concerns, and (e) training needs. The conclusions are that an ideal work life is characterized by enhanced supports for providing complex resident care, personal safety at work, …
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School-based extracurricular activity participation of secondary students with severe disabilities
… Students also received various amounts of personal support during their participation in school club activities, and were rarely supervised or monitored by an adult.
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Having a Learning Disability: Its Effect on the Academic Decisions of College Students
… had documented learning disabilities and used support services during the time of their enrollment at the university. All were students in good standing and had attended the university for at least three years. A qualitative method using unstructured, personal interviews was used. Interviews …
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Opening a can of worms : perceptions and practices of teachers in Newfoundland and Labrador incorporating the role of a therapist
… roles of teachers, including an emphasis on personal support. To provide for social, emotional, and behavioural needs, teachers may adopt a therapeutic role. Many models for such support are proposed, with most models including the importance of student-teacher relationships, a focus on …
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An exploration of the patients' lived experience with antineoplastic medicines for colorectal cancer in Malta.
… and illness-related impact on patients and (5) personal support structure. The longitudinal analysis of these themes supported inferences relevant to development in these areas along the treatment trajectory. Whilst patients faced the prospect of the treatment journey with fear, they had high …
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A narrative inquiry into the experience of a practical nursing graduate with private tutoring
… profession education (including nursing, personal support, occupational and physical therapy), as well as the use of professional tutors as an educational support among this population, is under researched. Throughout my practice as a professional health sciences tutor, I have wondered how …
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The R Factor: Centering Race in the Mentoring of African American College Students
<p>Mentoring provides personal support, academic assistance and career guidance to college students of color whose experiences have been documented to be very different from those of their White counterparts. Achievement inequity, problems of persistence, experiences of racism and student reports …
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How does personality relate to contextual performance, turnover, and customer service?
Personality measures are often used by organizations to select and develop employees in a way that maximizes their performance. Studies examining the relationship between personality and job performance have found some evidence for their utility in a variety of situations. Data was collected from a …
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