Aged care safety dilemma: Caring-for-self versus caring-for-residents

Aged care safety dilemma: caring-for-self versus caring-for-residents.

AIM To identify aged care specific work health and safety management issues by applying James Reason's safety culture theory to one residential aged care provider in Australia. METHODS Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with frontline care staff at three residential care facilities - all operated by the same provider - garnered employee perceptions of the safety culture and aged care spe...

Caring for Pressurized Tissues

زخم های فشاری، یکی از عوارض ناخواسته درمانی بوده و اکثراً با درک هوشیاری و مراقبت بموقع قابل پیشگیری است. امروزه زخم های فشاری یا زخم بستر یکی از مسائل بغرنج درمانی محسوب می شود و این مسئله تا حد زیادی مربوط به این واقعیت است که، تعداد بسیاری از بیماران سالخورده از بیماری های جدی و حاد جان سالم بدر برده ولی به علت سالخوردگی و پاتولوژی عوامل چندگانه بیشتر در معرض ابتلاء به زخم های بستر می باشند.

Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others.

[Care, self-care and caring for yourself: a paradigmatic understanding thought for nursing care].

This article presents a reflection about care, self-care and caring for oneself and establishes these issues' relations with the paradigms of totality and simultaneity. On the first part of the text, care and its general aspects are contextualized; the second part discusses about care in Martin Heidegger's philosophical perspective; the third part explores self-care on Dorothea Orem's conceptio...

Caring for Caregivers: Bridging the Care Gap.

While drawing on different perspectives, the insightful responses of our commentators all highlight the increasingly crucial role of informal, and mostly unpaid caregivers. They also raise key questions. The first question, "how should we refer to caregivers," pushes us to acknowledge the diversity of caregiver characteristics, contexts and roles. The second, "how should we understand the careg...