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Nursing assistant's perceptions of the good work environment in municipal elderly care in Sweden –a focus group study
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to investigate aspects related to difficulty to retain nursing assistants at nursing homes in Sweden related to perceived work environment characteristics. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: To reveal aspects related to difficulty to retain nursing assistants, the pap...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9136862/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33960174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-07-2020-0290 |
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author | Maneschiöld, Per-Ola Lucaci-Maneschiöld, Diana |
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description | PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to investigate aspects related to difficulty to retain nursing assistants at nursing homes in Sweden related to perceived work environment characteristics. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: To reveal aspects related to difficulty to retain nursing assistants, the paper uses the BIKVA model, sense of coherence and New Public Management (NPM). In total, three focus groups with nursing assistants at three nursing homes are interviewed with corresponding individual interviews with their senior managers and users. The purpose is to analyze the situation from the affected group of nursing assistants. The focus of this study is how nursing assistants discuss related to recruit and retain nursing assistants at nursing homes and elderly care and the response from senior management related to those aspects. FINDINGS: The main conclusions are that nursing assistants consider their job as meaningful, but limited latitude and direct involvement in managing their daily tasks in a continuous communication with management affect negatively. Furthermore and combined with wage levels, aspects related to scheduling, working hours, shift work, split shifts and understaffing generate a burdensome and stressful environment affecting the possibility to retain staff in a negative direction. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: The research uses a new approach utilizing the BIKVA model, sense of coherence and NPM. The study shows that central in retaining nursing assistants at nursing homes relates to aspects such as wages, staffing, shift work and split shifts and continuous communication between nursing assistants and management. |
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spelling | pubmed-91368622022-06-13 Nursing assistant's perceptions of the good work environment in municipal elderly care in Sweden –a focus group study Maneschiöld, Per-Ola Lucaci-Maneschiöld, Diana J Health Organ Manag Research Paper PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to investigate aspects related to difficulty to retain nursing assistants at nursing homes in Sweden related to perceived work environment characteristics. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: To reveal aspects related to difficulty to retain nursing assistants, the paper uses the BIKVA model, sense of coherence and New Public Management (NPM). In total, three focus groups with nursing assistants at three nursing homes are interviewed with corresponding individual interviews with their senior managers and users. The purpose is to analyze the situation from the affected group of nursing assistants. The focus of this study is how nursing assistants discuss related to recruit and retain nursing assistants at nursing homes and elderly care and the response from senior management related to those aspects. FINDINGS: The main conclusions are that nursing assistants consider their job as meaningful, but limited latitude and direct involvement in managing their daily tasks in a continuous communication with management affect negatively. Furthermore and combined with wage levels, aspects related to scheduling, working hours, shift work, split shifts and understaffing generate a burdensome and stressful environment affecting the possibility to retain staff in a negative direction. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: The research uses a new approach utilizing the BIKVA model, sense of coherence and NPM. The study shows that central in retaining nursing assistants at nursing homes relates to aspects such as wages, staffing, shift work and split shifts and continuous communication between nursing assistants and management. Emerald Publishing Limited 2021-04-29 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC9136862/ /pubmed/33960174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-07-2020-0290 Text en © Per-Ola Maneschiöld and Diana Lucaci-Maneschiöld https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Maneschiöld, Per-Ola Lucaci-Maneschiöld, Diana Nursing assistant's perceptions of the good work environment in municipal elderly care in Sweden –a focus group study |
title | Nursing assistant's perceptions of the good work environment in municipal elderly care in Sweden –a focus group study |
title_full | Nursing assistant's perceptions of the good work environment in municipal elderly care in Sweden –a focus group study |
title_fullStr | Nursing assistant's perceptions of the good work environment in municipal elderly care in Sweden –a focus group study |
title_full_unstemmed | Nursing assistant's perceptions of the good work environment in municipal elderly care in Sweden –a focus group study |
title_short | Nursing assistant's perceptions of the good work environment in municipal elderly care in Sweden –a focus group study |
title_sort | nursing assistant's perceptions of the good work environment in municipal elderly care in sweden –a focus group study |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9136862/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33960174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-07-2020-0290 |
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