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Nursing staff's actions during older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural Norway
Working in long-term care units poses particular staff challenges as these facilities are expected to provide services for seriously ill residents and give help in a homelike atmosphere. Licensed and unlicensed personnel work together in these surroundings, and their contributions may ease or inhibi...
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Co-Action Publishing
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4192838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25301634 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v9.24105 |
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author | Eika, Marianne Espnes, Geir Arild Hvalvik, Sigrun |
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description | Working in long-term care units poses particular staff challenges as these facilities are expected to provide services for seriously ill residents and give help in a homelike atmosphere. Licensed and unlicensed personnel work together in these surroundings, and their contributions may ease or inhibit a smooth transition for recently admitted residents. The aim of the study was to describe and explore different nursing staff's actions during the initial transition period for older people into a long-term care facility. Participant observation periods were undertaken following staff during 10 new residents’ admissions and their first week in the facility. In addition 16 interviews of different staff categories and reading of written documents were carried out. The findings show great variations of the staff's actions during the older residents’ initial transition period. Characteristics of their actions were (1) in the preparation period: “actions of sharing, sorting out, and ignoring information”; (2) on admission day: “actions of involvement and ignorance”; and (3) in the initial period: “targeted and random actions,” “actions influenced by embedded knowledge,” and “actions influenced by local transparency.” |
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spelling | pubmed-41928382014-10-14 Nursing staff's actions during older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural Norway Eika, Marianne Espnes, Geir Arild Hvalvik, Sigrun Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Empirical Study Working in long-term care units poses particular staff challenges as these facilities are expected to provide services for seriously ill residents and give help in a homelike atmosphere. Licensed and unlicensed personnel work together in these surroundings, and their contributions may ease or inhibit a smooth transition for recently admitted residents. The aim of the study was to describe and explore different nursing staff's actions during the initial transition period for older people into a long-term care facility. Participant observation periods were undertaken following staff during 10 new residents’ admissions and their first week in the facility. In addition 16 interviews of different staff categories and reading of written documents were carried out. The findings show great variations of the staff's actions during the older residents’ initial transition period. Characteristics of their actions were (1) in the preparation period: “actions of sharing, sorting out, and ignoring information”; (2) on admission day: “actions of involvement and ignorance”; and (3) in the initial period: “targeted and random actions,” “actions influenced by embedded knowledge,” and “actions influenced by local transparency.” Co-Action Publishing 2014-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4192838/ /pubmed/25301634 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v9.24105 Text en © 2014 Marianne Eika et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Empirical Study Eika, Marianne Espnes, Geir Arild Hvalvik, Sigrun Nursing staff's actions during older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural Norway |
title | Nursing staff's actions during older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural Norway |
title_full | Nursing staff's actions during older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural Norway |
title_fullStr | Nursing staff's actions during older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural Norway |
title_full_unstemmed | Nursing staff's actions during older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural Norway |
title_short | Nursing staff's actions during older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural Norway |
title_sort | nursing staff's actions during older residents’ transition into long-term care facility in a nursing home in rural norway |
topic | Empirical Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4192838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25301634 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v9.24105 |
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