A NEW INSTRUMENT TO DETERMINE ADEQUATE STAFFING RATIOS IN GERMAN NURSING HOMES

Ever since mandatory long-term care insurance was introduced in Germany there has been concern about staffing of nursing homes. As attempts to introduce the Canadian PLAISIR system failed today staffing ratios between federal states differ by more than 20 % and perceived understaffing is a major rea...

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Autores principales: Wolf-Ostermann, Karin, Rothgang, Heinz, Darmann-Fink, Ingrid, Kalwitzki, Thomas, Fünfstück, Mathias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Session 2020 (Symposium)
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6840552/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1398
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author Wolf-Ostermann, Karin
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Darmann-Fink, Ingrid
Kalwitzki, Thomas
Fünfstück, Mathias
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description Ever since mandatory long-term care insurance was introduced in Germany there has been concern about staffing of nursing homes. As attempts to introduce the Canadian PLAISIR system failed today staffing ratios between federal states differ by more than 20 % and perceived understaffing is a major reason for the lack of nurses. Against this background the reform act from December 2015 commissioned the development of a new instrument to identify necessary staffing ratios. The University of Bremen was mandated to develop this instrument, and will present the final product in August 2019 to the Commissioner. The contribution will describe the methods applied in developing the instrument and the resulting instrument itself which translates the number and characteristics of any given nursing home into staffing requirements according to certain degrees of qualification, thus replacing general quotas of registered nurses to auxiliary staff by individual ratios for each nursing home.
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spelling pubmed-68405522019-11-15 A NEW INSTRUMENT TO DETERMINE ADEQUATE STAFFING RATIOS IN GERMAN NURSING HOMES Wolf-Ostermann, Karin Rothgang, Heinz Darmann-Fink, Ingrid Kalwitzki, Thomas Fünfstück, Mathias Innov Aging Session 2020 (Symposium) Ever since mandatory long-term care insurance was introduced in Germany there has been concern about staffing of nursing homes. As attempts to introduce the Canadian PLAISIR system failed today staffing ratios between federal states differ by more than 20 % and perceived understaffing is a major reason for the lack of nurses. Against this background the reform act from December 2015 commissioned the development of a new instrument to identify necessary staffing ratios. The University of Bremen was mandated to develop this instrument, and will present the final product in August 2019 to the Commissioner. The contribution will describe the methods applied in developing the instrument and the resulting instrument itself which translates the number and characteristics of any given nursing home into staffing requirements according to certain degrees of qualification, thus replacing general quotas of registered nurses to auxiliary staff by individual ratios for each nursing home. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6840552/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1398 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A NEW INSTRUMENT TO DETERMINE ADEQUATE STAFFING RATIOS IN GERMAN NURSING HOMES
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title_full_unstemmed A NEW INSTRUMENT TO DETERMINE ADEQUATE STAFFING RATIOS IN GERMAN NURSING HOMES
title_short A NEW INSTRUMENT TO DETERMINE ADEQUATE STAFFING RATIOS IN GERMAN NURSING HOMES
title_sort new instrument to determine adequate staffing ratios in german nursing homes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6840552/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1398
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