BACKGROUND Group living homes are a fast-growing form of nursing home care for older people with dementia. This study seeks to determine the differences in job characteristics of nursing staff in group living homes and their influence on well-being. METHODS We examined the Job Demand Control Support (JDCS) model in relation to 183 professional caregivers in group living homes and 197 professi...

Internationally, shortages in the nursing workforce, escalating patient demands, and financial constraints within the health system have led to the growth of unlicensed nursing support workers. Recently, in relation to the largest publicly funded health system (National Health Service), it was reported that extensive substitution of registered nurses with unskilled nursing support workers resul...

OBJECTIVE To elaborate an interpretative model for the governance of professional nursing practice in a hospital setting. METHOD A mixed methods study with concurrent triangulation strategy, using data from a cross-sectional study with 106 nurses and a Grounded Theory study with 63 participants. The quantitative data were collected through the Brazilian Nursing Work Index - Revised and underw...

Nursing homes are a common site of death, but older residents receive variable quality of end-of-life care. We used a mixed methods design to identify external influences on the quality of end-of-life care in nursing homes. Two qualitative case studies were conducted and a postal survey of 180 nursing homes surrounding the case study sites. In the case studies, qualitative interviews were held ...

OBJECTIVES Identify useful concepts related to the emotional context facing family members of nursing home residents. These concepts can be used in future studies to design and test interventions that benefit family caregivers. DESIGN Secondary data analyses of qualitative ethnographic data. SETTING Two nursing homes in a large Midwestern city; 8 months of data collection in each. PARTICI...

OBJECTIVES To assess the changes in the quality of information processing in nursing after the introduction of a computer-based nursing information system. METHODS 94 nurses filled out the HIS-monitor survey, comprising 41 questions and focusing on the quality of the information processing, shortly before and again one year after the introduction of a computer-based nursing information system...

1 Cell Biology Department, School of Medicine, Complutense University Madrid (SPAIN)2 Nursing Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, (SPAIN)3 Teaching Research Support Service, (SPAIN)

AIM A discussion on how informatics knowledge and competencies can enable nursing to instantiate transition to integrated models of care. BACKGROUND Costs of traditional models of care are no longer sustainable consequent to the spiralling incidence and costs of chronic illness. The international community looks towards technology-enabled solutions to support a shift towards integrated patien...