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Good in Providing Oral Care, but we Could be Better—Nursing Staff Identification of Improvement Areas in Oral Care

INTRODUCTION: Oral care to older people in short-term care units is a complex and challenging everyday practice for nursing staff. Oral care research and knowledge about prerequisites and obstacles is extensive. However, there is a lack of knowledge about how nursing staff in short-term care units d...

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Autores principales: Andersson, Maria, Persenius, Mona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8495511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34632061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608211045258
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description INTRODUCTION: Oral care to older people in short-term care units is a complex and challenging everyday practice for nursing staff. Oral care research and knowledge about prerequisites and obstacles is extensive. However, there is a lack of knowledge about how nursing staff in short-term care units describe their satisfaction about provided oral care in order to maintain older people's oral health. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe how nursing staff perceive their satisfaction of oral care provided for older people in short-term care units and to identify oral care improvements. METHODS: This study reports on the results of two open-ended questions that were part of a larger study. Informants (n = 54) were nursing staff working in the involved short-term care units in municipalities from both densely and sparsely populated regions in central and northern Sweden. The answers to the open-ended questions were analyzed using content analysis. RESULTS: The analysis yielded one main category; “Working together to improve satisfaction with older people's oral care” and four subcategories: “Older people's oral health,” “Consideration and respect for the older person's autonomy,” “Having access to adequate products,” and “Working together in the same direction.” CONCLUSION: Identification of older people's oral health problems together with adequate nursing intervention will increase older people's health outcomes and quality of life. However, regardless of work role, the nursing staff might have difficulty changing their behavior or transforming intentions into actions. Oral care is a complicated and proactive practice that requires nursing staff's attention as well as both educational and organizational initiatives. Working in a supportive and collaborative relationship provides prerequisites for optimal oral care in short-term care units.
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spelling pubmed-84955112021-10-08 Good in Providing Oral Care, but we Could be Better—Nursing Staff Identification of Improvement Areas in Oral Care Andersson, Maria Persenius, Mona SAGE Open Nurs Original Research Article INTRODUCTION: Oral care to older people in short-term care units is a complex and challenging everyday practice for nursing staff. Oral care research and knowledge about prerequisites and obstacles is extensive. However, there is a lack of knowledge about how nursing staff in short-term care units describe their satisfaction about provided oral care in order to maintain older people's oral health. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe how nursing staff perceive their satisfaction of oral care provided for older people in short-term care units and to identify oral care improvements. METHODS: This study reports on the results of two open-ended questions that were part of a larger study. Informants (n = 54) were nursing staff working in the involved short-term care units in municipalities from both densely and sparsely populated regions in central and northern Sweden. The answers to the open-ended questions were analyzed using content analysis. RESULTS: The analysis yielded one main category; “Working together to improve satisfaction with older people's oral care” and four subcategories: “Older people's oral health,” “Consideration and respect for the older person's autonomy,” “Having access to adequate products,” and “Working together in the same direction.” CONCLUSION: Identification of older people's oral health problems together with adequate nursing intervention will increase older people's health outcomes and quality of life. However, regardless of work role, the nursing staff might have difficulty changing their behavior or transforming intentions into actions. Oral care is a complicated and proactive practice that requires nursing staff's attention as well as both educational and organizational initiatives. Working in a supportive and collaborative relationship provides prerequisites for optimal oral care in short-term care units. SAGE Publications 2021-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8495511/ /pubmed/34632061 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608211045258 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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