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Validation of Geriatric Care Environment Scale in Portuguese Nurses
The number of hospitalized older adults in Portugal necessitates a better understanding of the acute care environment for older adults. This study translated and examined the psychometric qualities of the Geriatric Care Environment Scale (GCES) among 1,068 Portuguese registered nurses (RNs). Four fa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23781244 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/426596 |
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author | Paulo de Almeida Tavares, João Leite da Silva, Alcione Sá-Couto, Pedro Boltz, Marie Capezuti, Elizabeth |
author_facet | Paulo de Almeida Tavares, João Leite da Silva, Alcione Sá-Couto, Pedro Boltz, Marie Capezuti, Elizabeth |
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description | The number of hospitalized older adults in Portugal necessitates a better understanding of the acute care environment for older adults. This study translated and examined the psychometric qualities of the Geriatric Care Environment Scale (GCES) among 1,068 Portuguese registered nurses (RNs). Four factors emerged from the exploratory factor analyses: resource availability, aging-sensitive care delivery, institutional values regarding older adults and staff, and continuity of care. The internal consistency of the GCES was α = .919. The GCES was significantly associated with the variables of region, hospital type, unit type, and RNs perception of hospital educational, staff knowledge, difficulty, rewarding, and burdensome in caring for older adults. Nurses who worked in hospitals centers in the northern region and medical and surgery units had more positive perceptions of the geriatric care environment. More positive perception was also found among RNs that reported more educational support, had more knowledge, and felt more rewarding and less difficulty and burden in caring older adults. This process resulted in a valid and reliable measurement of the geriatric care environment Portuguese version which provides hospital leadership with an instrument to evaluate organizational support for geriatric nursing practice and target specific areas that support or hinder care delivery. |
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spelling | pubmed-36797142013-06-18 Validation of Geriatric Care Environment Scale in Portuguese Nurses Paulo de Almeida Tavares, João Leite da Silva, Alcione Sá-Couto, Pedro Boltz, Marie Capezuti, Elizabeth Curr Gerontol Geriatr Res Research Article The number of hospitalized older adults in Portugal necessitates a better understanding of the acute care environment for older adults. This study translated and examined the psychometric qualities of the Geriatric Care Environment Scale (GCES) among 1,068 Portuguese registered nurses (RNs). Four factors emerged from the exploratory factor analyses: resource availability, aging-sensitive care delivery, institutional values regarding older adults and staff, and continuity of care. The internal consistency of the GCES was α = .919. The GCES was significantly associated with the variables of region, hospital type, unit type, and RNs perception of hospital educational, staff knowledge, difficulty, rewarding, and burdensome in caring for older adults. Nurses who worked in hospitals centers in the northern region and medical and surgery units had more positive perceptions of the geriatric care environment. More positive perception was also found among RNs that reported more educational support, had more knowledge, and felt more rewarding and less difficulty and burden in caring older adults. This process resulted in a valid and reliable measurement of the geriatric care environment Portuguese version which provides hospital leadership with an instrument to evaluate organizational support for geriatric nursing practice and target specific areas that support or hinder care delivery. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3679714/ /pubmed/23781244 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/426596 Text en Copyright © 2013 João Paulo de Almeida Tavares et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Paulo de Almeida Tavares, João Leite da Silva, Alcione Sá-Couto, Pedro Boltz, Marie Capezuti, Elizabeth Validation of Geriatric Care Environment Scale in Portuguese Nurses |
title | Validation of Geriatric Care Environment Scale in Portuguese Nurses |
title_full | Validation of Geriatric Care Environment Scale in Portuguese Nurses |
title_fullStr | Validation of Geriatric Care Environment Scale in Portuguese Nurses |
title_full_unstemmed | Validation of Geriatric Care Environment Scale in Portuguese Nurses |
title_short | Validation of Geriatric Care Environment Scale in Portuguese Nurses |
title_sort | validation of geriatric care environment scale in portuguese nurses |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3679714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23781244 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/426596 |
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