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Lehane E, Buckley C, Mulcahy H, McCarthy E, Cogan L, O'Connell R, Murphy M, Leahy-Warren P. Evaluating the process of practice enhancement for exclusive breastfeeding (PEEB): a participatory action research approach for clinical innovation. Int Breastfeed J 2024; 19:39. [PMID: 38822371 PMCID: PMC11140990 DOI: 10.1186/s13006-024-00648-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 05/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/03/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Despite the known benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, global rates remain below recommended targets, with Ireland having one of the lowest rates in the world. This study explores the efficacy of Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Work-Based Learning Groups (WBLGs) to enhance breastfeeding practices within Irish healthcare settings from the perspective of WBLG participants and facilitators. METHODS Employing a PAR approach, interdisciplinary healthcare professionals across maternity, primary, and community care settings (n = 94) participated in monthly WBLGs facilitated by three research and practice experts. These sessions, conducted over nine months (November 2021 - July 2022), focused on critical reflective and experiential learning to identify and understand existing breastfeeding culture and practices. Data were collected through participant feedback, facilitator notes, and reflective exercises, with analysis centered on participant engagement and the effectiveness of WBLGs. This approach facilitated a comprehensive understanding of breastfeeding support challenges and opportunities, leading to the development of actionable themes and strategies for practice improvement. RESULTS Data analysis from WBLG participants led to the identification of five key themes: Empowerment, Ethos, Journey, Vision, and Personal Experience. These themes shaped the participants' meta-narrative, emphasising a journey of knowledge-building and empowerment for breastfeeding women and supporting staff, underlining the importance of teamwork and multidisciplinary approaches. The project team's evaluation highlighted four additional themes: Building Momentum, Balancing, Space Matters, and Being Present. These themes reflect the dynamics of the PAR process, highlighting the significance of creating a conducive environment for discussion, ensuring diverse engagement, and maintaining energy and focus to foster meaningful practice changes in breastfeeding support. CONCLUSION This study highlights the potential of WBLGs and PAR to enhance the understanding and approach of healthcare professionals towards breastfeeding support. By fostering reflective and collaborative learning environments, the study has contributed to a deeper understanding of the challenges in breastfeeding support and identified key areas for improvement. The methodologies and themes identified hold promise to inform future practice and policy development in maternal and child health.
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- Elaine Lehane
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
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- Northridge House Education and Research Centre, St Luke's Home, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Basger BJ, Moles RJ, Chen TF. Uptake of pharmacist recommendations by patients after discharge: Implementation study of a patient-centered medicines review service. BMC Geriatr 2023; 23:183. [PMID: 36991378 PMCID: PMC10061906 DOI: 10.1186/s12877-023-03921-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medicine use is common in older people, resulting in harm increased by lack of patient-centred care. Hospital clinical pharmacy services may reduce such harm, particularly prevalent at transitions of care. An implementation program to achieve such services can be a complex long-term process. OBJECTIVES To describe an implementation program and discuss its application in the development of a patient-centred discharge medicine review service; to assess service impact on older patients and their caregivers. METHOD An implementation program was begun in 2006. To assess program effectiveness, 100 patients were recruited for follow-up after discharge from a private hospital between July 2019 and March 2020. There were no exclusion criteria other than age less than 65 years. Medicine review and education were provided for each patient/caregiver by a clinical pharmacist, including recommendations for future management, written in lay language. Patients were asked to consult their general practitioner to discuss those recommendations important to them. Patients were followed-up after discharge. RESULTS Of 368 recommendations made, 351 (95%) were actioned by patients, resulting in 284 (77% of those actioned) being implemented, and 206 regularly taken medicines (19.7 % of all regular medicines) deprescribed. CONCLUSION Implementation of a patient-centred medicine review discharge service resulted in patient-reported reduction in potentially inappropriate medicine use and hospital funding of this service. This study was registered retrospectively on 12th July 2022 with the ISRCTN registry, ISRCTN21156862, https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN21156862 .
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- Benjamin Joseph Basger
- Discipline of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Room N517, A15 Science Road, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
- Wolper Jewish Hospital, 8 Trelawney Street, Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, 2025, Australia.
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- Discipline of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Room N517, A15 Science Road, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Discipline of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Room N517, A15 Science Road, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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Ericson Lidman E, Strandberg G. Care providers' troubled conscience related to an implementation of a time management system in residential care for older people-a participatory action research study. Scand J Caring Sci 2019; 34:745-753. [PMID: 31657043 DOI: 10.1111/scs.12779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Care providers in residential care for older people often refer to time shortage, a problem that may generate troubled conscience. AIM The aim of the study was to describe a PAR process to assist care providers in municipal residential care for older people to constructively deal with their troubled conscience related to an implemented time management system. METHOD This intervention study was carried out with 14 care providers and their manager in residential care for older people with the support of participatory action research (PAR). The recorded PAR sessions were transcribed and compiled with inspiration from content analysis. ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS The participants were given oral and written information and gave their written informed consent. FINDINGS The PAR process was found to empower the participants to form their own structure of the practical professional planning, adapted to the residents needs and to their daily work. In this process, participants used their troubled conscience as a driving force and as an asset. CONCLUSION Instead of launching change without any deeper information, it is important to carefully prepare, involve and inform those who are going to execute the change. Meeting places should be arranged wherein care providers have the opportunity to share and reflect on challenging situations that can generate troubled conscience, especially when comprehensive changes in their work are going to be implemented.
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Brooke J. Differentiation of delirium, dementia and delirium superimposed on dementia in the older person. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 27:363-367. [PMID: 29634336 DOI: 10.12968/bjon.2018.27.7.363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Delirium is an acute clinical emergency that requires prompt clinical intervention. A predisposing factor for delirium is dementia, and delirium may highlight the vulnerability of a patient to developing dementia. However, delirium also occurs during an acute illness in patients diagnosed with dementia; this is classified as delirium superimposed on dementia. This complex interplay of both dementia syndromes and the condition of delirium has been extensively studied. However, delirium continues to be under-recognised in the acute setting, which impacts negatively on patient outcomes. Nurses are the health professionals best placed to recognise a change in a patient's cognitive symptoms, but nurses caring for the older person have suggested the identification of and differentiation between delirium, dementia and delirium superimposed on dementia remains very confusing. A need for further education with supportive guidelines and protocols is required to empower nurses caring for an older person to verbalise changes in patients' cognitive status in a reliable, robust and systematic manner.
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- Joanne Brooke
- Reader of Complex Older Persons Care, Oxford Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Research, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
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Redley B, Baker T. Have you SCAND MMe Please? A framework to prevent harm during acute hospitalisation of older persons: A retrospective audit. J Clin Nurs 2018; 28:560-574. [PMID: 30129081 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.14650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Revised: 07/23/2018] [Accepted: 07/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To test the mnemonic Have you SCAND MMe Please? as a framework to audit nursing care to prevent harms common to older inpatients. BACKGROUND It is not known if acute hospital care comprehensively addresses eight interrelated factors that contribute to preventable harms common in older hospitalised patients. DESIGN Retrospective audit of medical records. METHODS A random selection of 400 medical records of inpatients over 65 years of age with an unplanned admission of longer than 72 hr in acute medical wards at four hospitals in Victoria, Australia, during 2011-12, was examined for frequency of documented evidence of assessments, interventions or new problems related to eight factors contributing to common preventable harms during hospitalisation. RESULTS Assessments of skin integrity (94%-97%), mobility (95%-98%) and pain (93%-97%) were most often documented. Gaps in assessment of continence (4%-31%), nutrition (9%-49%), cognition (delirium, depression and dementia) (10%-24%) were most common. No patient record had evidence of all eight factors being assessed. Almost 80% of records had interventions documented for one or more factors that contribute to preventable harms. In almost 20% of patient records, a new preventable harm was documented during hospitalisation. CONCLUSIONS The mnemonic Have you SCAND MMe Please? brings together eight factors known to contribute to preventable harms common in older hospitalised patients. This framework was useful to identify gaps in assessment and interventions for factors that contribute to preventable harms during acute hospital care. Future research should test if the mnemonic can assist nurses with comprehensive harm prevention during acute hospitalisation. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE The mnemonic Have you SCAND MMe Please? represents eight factors that contribute to preventable harms common in older hospitalised patients. This framework provides a model for harm prevention to assist nurses to implement comprehensive harm prevention to improve quality of care and safety for older hospitalised patients.
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- Bernice Redley
- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Nursing Research Centre, Monash Health-Deakin Partnership, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
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Coyle MA, Chang HC, Burns P, Traynor V. Impact of Interactive Education on Health Care Practitioners and Older Adults at Risk of Delirium: A Literature Review. J Gerontol Nurs 2018; 44:41-48. [DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20180626-02] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2018] [Accepted: 04/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Solà-Miravete E, López C, Martínez-Segura E, Adell-Lleixà M, Juvé-Udina ME, Lleixà-Fortuño M. Nursing assessment as an effective tool for the identification of delirium risk in older in-patients: A case-control study. J Clin Nurs 2017. [PMID: 28631875 DOI: 10.1111/jocn.13921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate the usefulness of comprehensive nursing assessment as a strategy for determining the risk of delirium in older in-patients from a model of care needs based on variables easily measured by nurses. BACKGROUND There are many scales of assessment and prediction of risk of delirium, but they are little known and infrequently used by professionals. Recognition of delirium by doctors and nurses continues to be limited. DESIGN AND METHODS A case-control study. A specific form of data collection was designed to include the risk factors for delirium commonly identified in the literature and the care needs evaluated from the comprehensive nursing assessment based on the Virginia Henderson model of care needs. We studied 454 in-patient units in a basic general hospital. Data were collected from a review of the records of patients' electronic clinical history. RESULTS The areas of care that were significant in patients with delirium were dyspnoea, problems with nutrition, elimination, mobility, rest and sleep, self-care, physical safety, communication and relationships. The specific risk factors identified as independent predictors were as follows: age, urinary incontinence, urinary catheter, alcohol abuse, previous history of dementia, being able to get out of bed/not being at rest, habitual insomnia and history of social risk. CONCLUSIONS Comprehensive nursing assessment is a valid and consistent strategy with a multifactorial model of delirium, which enables the personalised risk assessment necessary to define a plan of care with specific interventions for each patient to be made. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE The identification of the risk of delirium is particularly important in the context of prevention. In a model of care based on needs, nursing assessment is a useful component in the risk assessment of delirium and one that is necessary for developing an individualised care regime.
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- Elena Solà-Miravete
- Department of Quality, Hospital de Tortosa Verge de la Cinta, ICS, Universitat Rovira Virgili, Terres de l'Ebre Campus, School of Nursing, Tortosa, Spain
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- Molecular Biology and Research Section, Hospital de Tortosa Verge de la Cinta, ICS, IISPV, Universitat Rovira Virgili, Tortosa, Spain
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- Emergency Services, Hospital de Tortosa Verge de la Cinta, ICS, Universitat Rovira Virgili, Terres de l'Ebre Campus, School of Nursing, Tortosa, Spain
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- Dialysis Service, Hospital de la Santa Creu, Jesús, Universitat Rovira Virgili, Terres de l'Ebre Campus, School of Nursing, Tortosa, Spain
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- Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Bellvitge University Hospital, Health Universitat de Barcelona Campus, School of Nursing, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nursing Department, Universitat Rovira Virgili, Terres de l'Ebre Campus, School of Nursing, Tortosa, Spain
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Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach for dealing with problematic areas in practice. Follow-up studies in which participants describe their participation in PAR in detail are rare. This follow-up study aimed to describe care providers' (CPs) experiences of having participated in a PAR intervention designed to assist them to constructively deal with troubled conscience. Twenty-nine CPs who participated in a PAR intervention were interviewed 2 to 4 months post-intervention. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. The analysis revealed three main categories: the importance of having a communal and collaborative meeting place, perceived changes in daily life, and "It has been good, but it has not solved all of our problems." Using PAR to deal with troubled conscience might be an important organizational investment for the future that can help prevent ill health among CPs and maintain or improve the quality of care.
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Ericson-Lidman E, Åhlin J. Assessments of Stress of Conscience, Perceptions of Conscience, Burnout, and Social Support Before and After Implementation of a Participatory Action-Research-Based Intervention. Clin Nurs Res 2016; 26:205-223. [DOI: 10.1177/1054773815618607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Interventions aiming to constructively address stress of conscience are rare. The aim of the study was to compare assessments of stress of conscience, perceptions of conscience, burnout, and social support among health care personnel (HCP) working in municipal residential care of older adults, before and after participation in a participatory action research (PAR) intervention aiming to learn to constructively deal with troubled conscience. Questionnaire data were collected at baseline and at follow-up (1-year interval; n = 29). Descriptive statistics and nonparametric statistical tests were used to make comparisons between baseline and follow-up. HCP gave significantly higher scores to the question, “Are your work achievements appreciated by your immediate superior?” at follow-up compared with baseline. No significant differences in levels of stress of conscience and burnout at follow-up were found. The results suggested that a PAR intervention aiming to learn HCP to deal with their troubled conscience in difficult situations could be partially successful.
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Lach HW, Leach KM, Butcher HK. Evidence-Based Practice Guideline: Changing the Practice of Physical Restraint Use in Acute Care. J Gerontol Nurs 2016; 42:17-26. [DOI: 10.3928/00989134-20160113-04] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Wright DK, Brajtman S, Cragg B, Macdonald ME. Delirium as letting go: An ethnographic analysis of hospice care and family moral experience. Palliat Med 2015; 29:959-66. [PMID: 25855632 DOI: 10.1177/0269216315580742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Delirium is extremely common in dying patients and appears to be a major threat to the family's moral experience of a good death in end-of-life care. AIM To illustrate one of the ways in which hospice caregivers conceptualize end-of-life delirium and the significance of this conceptualization for the relationships that they form with patients' families in the hospice setting. DESIGN Ethnography. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted at a nine-bed, freestanding residential hospice, located in a suburban community of Eastern Canada. Data collection methods included 15 months of participant observation, 28 semi-structured audio-recorded interviews with hospice caregivers, and document analysis. RESULTS Hospice caregivers draw on a culturally established framework of normal dying to help families come to terms with clinical end-of-life phenomena, including delirium. By offering explanations about delirium as a natural feature of the dying process, hospice caregivers strive to protect for families the integrity of the good death ideal. CONCLUSION Within hospice culture, there is usefulness to deemphasizing delirium as a pathological neuropsychiatric complication, in favor of acknowledging delirious changes as signs of normal dying. This has implications for how we understand the role of nurses and other caregivers with respect to delirium assessment and care, which to date has focused largely on practices of screening and management.
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Ericson-Lidman E, Strandberg G. ‘Troubled conscience related to deficiencies in providing individualised meal schedule in residential care for older people - a participatory action research study’. Scand J Caring Sci 2015; 29:688-96. [DOI: 10.1111/scs.12197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2014] [Accepted: 10/25/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND Systematic evaluations of knowledge translation interventions in nursing homes to improve practice are scarce. There is also a lack of studies focusing on creating sustainable evidence-based practice in the setting of residential dementia care. METHODS The aim of this paper is to describe a model for implementing national evidence-based guidelines for care of persons with dementia in nursing homes. The secondary aim is to outline the nursing home staff experiences during the first year of the implementation process. The intervention had a participatory action research approach. This included educational activities such as: (i) thematic seminars introducing national guidelines for dementia care, (ii) regular unit-based seminars; and (iii) later dissemination of information in reflective seminars and several days of poster-exhibitions. Areas of practice development were selected on each of the 24 units, based on unit-specific needs, and a quality improvement strategy was applied and evaluated. Each unit met ten times during a period of eight months. Data for this study were extracted from the reflective seminars and poster presentations, analyzed using a qualitative content analysis. RESULTS Findings showed that implementation of guidelines were perceived by staff as beneficial for both staff and the residents. However, barriers to identification of relevant sources of evidence and barriers to sustainable implementation were experienced. CONCLUSIONS One of our assumptions was that dementia nursing homes can benefit from becoming knowledge driven, with care practices founded in evidence-based sources. Our findings show that to be partly true, even though most staff units found their efforts to pursue and utilize knowledge adversely impacted by time-logistics and practical workload challenges.
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Difficulties in diagnosing delirium in elderly patients in a general hospital. Asian J Psychiatr 2014; 9:85-6. [PMID: 24813043 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2014.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2013] [Revised: 01/25/2014] [Accepted: 02/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Ericson-Lidman E, Strandberg G. Learning to deal constructively with troubled conscience related to care providers' perceptions of deficient teamwork in residential care of older people - a participatory action research study. Scand J Caring Sci 2014; 29:215-24. [DOI: 10.1111/scs.12152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2014] [Accepted: 04/29/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Wong Shee A, Phillips B, Hill K, Dodd K. Feasibility and acceptability of a volunteer-mediated diversional therapy program for older patients with cognitive impairment. Geriatr Nurs 2014; 35:300-5. [PMID: 24755195 DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2014.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2013] [Revised: 03/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Understanding the perceptions of stakeholders is critical for determining acceptability and feasibility of volunteer-mediated programs. This study evaluated the feasibility and acceptability for staff, volunteers, patients and their carers, of a volunteer diversional therapy program for patients with cognitive impairment undergoing inpatient rehabilitation. Post-program structured interviews were conducted with the volunteers (n = 10), patients (n = 30) and their carers (n = 3); and nursing staff (n = 6) participated in a focus group. Thematic analysis identified five themes (values, attitudes, knowledge, purpose, support) in two dimensions (personal, team culture). Overall, patients, carers, staff and volunteers were satisfied with the volunteer program and perceived benefits for quality of care. Recommendations for improvements to the program related to staff engagement with the program and the volunteers' education and training. The volunteer diversional therapy pilot program for patients with cognitive impairment on a sub-acute ward was acceptable and feasible for patients, carers, staff and volunteers.
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- Anna Wong Shee
- Ballarat Health Services, Victoria, Australia; Federation University Australia, Victoria, Australia.
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- La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
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- School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
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Ericson-Lidman E, Strandberg G. Learning to Deal Constructively With Troubled Conscience Related to Care Providers’ Perceptions of Not Providing Sufficient Activities for Residents. Clin Nurs Res 2013; 24:211-27. [DOI: 10.1177/1054773813500139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The aim of this study was to illuminate an intervention process to assist care providers in municipal care of older people to constructively deal with their troubled conscience generated from their perceived shortcomings about not providing sufficient activities for residents. The study design was grounded in participatory action research. Twelve care providers and their manager participated in intervention sessions. Content analysis was used to analyze the transcriptions. By sharing their experiences with each other, care providers became aware of, and confirmed in one another, what types of activities were meaningful for residents and actions were taken to provide such activities. The importance of being attentive and relying on residents’ responses, that is, providing person-centered activities, was found to be satisfying to residents and eased the care providers’ troubled conscience. An enlightened conscience can be an important asset, which may prevent ill-health and improve quality of care.
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Godfrey M, Smith J, Green J, Cheater F, Inouye SK, Young JB. Developing and implementing an integrated delirium prevention system of care: a theory driven, participatory research study. BMC Health Serv Res 2013; 13:341. [PMID: 24004917 PMCID: PMC3766659 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2013] [Accepted: 08/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Delirium is a common complication for older people in hospital. Evidence suggests that delirium incidence in hospital may be reduced by about a third through a multi-component intervention targeted at known modifiable risk factors. We describe the research design and conceptual framework underpinning it that informed the development of a novel delirium prevention system of care for acute hospital wards. Particular focus of the study was on developing an implementation process aimed at embedding practice change within routine care delivery. METHODS We adopted a participatory action research approach involving staff, volunteers, and patient and carer representatives in three northern NHS Trusts in England. We employed Normalization Process Theory to explore knowledge and ward practices on delirium and delirium prevention. We established a Development Team in each Trust comprising senior and frontline staff from selected wards, and others with a potential role or interest in delirium prevention. Data collection included facilitated workshops, relevant documents/records, qualitative one-to-one interviews and focus groups with multiple stakeholders and observation of ward practices. We used grounded theory strategies in analysing and synthesising data. RESULTS Awareness of delirium was variable among staff with no attention on delirium prevention at any level; delirium prevention was typically neither understood nor perceived as meaningful. The busy, chaotic and challenging ward life rhythm focused primarily on diagnostics, clinical observations and treatment. Ward practices pertinent to delirium prevention were undertaken inconsistently. Staff welcomed the possibility of volunteers being engaged in delirium prevention work, but existing systems for volunteer support were viewed as a barrier. Our evolving conception of an integrated model of delirium prevention presented major implementation challenges flowing from minimal understanding of delirium prevention and securing engagement of volunteers alongside practice change. The resulting Prevention of Delirium (POD) Programme combines a multi-component delirium prevention and implementation process, incorporating systems and mechanisms to introduce and embed delirium prevention into routine ward practices. CONCLUSIONS Although our substantive interest was in delirium prevention, the conceptual and methodological strategies pursued have implications for implementing and sustaining practice and service improvements more broadly. STUDY REGISTRATION ISRCTN65924234.
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- Mary Godfrey
- Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, University of Leeds, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD9 6RJ, UK
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- Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, University of Leeds, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD9 6RJ, UK
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- Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, University of Leeds, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD9 6RJ, UK
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- School of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Edith Cavell Building, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, 1200 Centre Street, Roslindale, MA 02131, USA
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- Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation, University of Leeds, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD9 6RJ, UK
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Walker K, Borgstrom H, Tsinonis H. Intervening to improve quality and safety of care for the obese in an orthopaedic unit: A collaborative action-oriented quality improvement project in a Magnet recognised facility. Collegian 2013; 20:171-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colegn.2012.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Solberg LM, Plummer CE, May KN, Mion LC. A quality improvement program to increase nurses' detection of delirium on an acute medical unit. Geriatr Nurs 2013; 34:75-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2012.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Boussaid L, Dahlgren M, Lindwall L. Nurses learn caring theory by being co-researchers in a surgical setting. NURSE EDUCATION TODAY 2012; 32:393-398. [PMID: 21658822 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2011.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2010] [Revised: 05/10/2011] [Accepted: 05/11/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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This paper present findings from research on the following issues: How nurses from surgical unit learn a caring theory by being co-researchers in a research group. The aim was to describe the learning process of the nurses when they were co-researchers in a research group. The study has a qualitative design and a hermeneutical approach. Data were collected through interviews with seven registered nurses in hospital in mid Sweden. The study shows that nurses learn caring by listening to each other. Four sub-themes emerged through the interpretation: Nurses learn caring theory by listening to each other when they are; giving time to talk to one another, expressing their actions in words, sharing thoughts with others and allowing themselves to be touched by each other's stories. The new understanding highlights that learning in research groups can be understood as a learning process, where nurses listen to one another and thereby create an expression and meaning of their experiences through caring theory, while at the same time developing their profession. Nurses learn caring theory by being co-researchers in a research group. In order for this to happen, the research collaboration should be characterized by realism and engagement.
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- Lena Boussaid
- School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University, SE-721 23 Västerås, Sweden.
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Staff satisfaction between 2 models of care for the chronically critically ill. J Crit Care 2012; 27:426.e1-8. [PMID: 22421003 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2011.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2011] [Revised: 12/30/2011] [Accepted: 12/31/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Chronically critically ill (CCI) patients are a growing population in intensive care units (ICUs), and evidence suggests that this patient group is perceived as demanding by healthcare professionals. However, information is scarce regarding organizational factors that affect staff satisfaction during the care of CCI patients. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate staff satisfaction between 2 models of care for the CCI. In the first model, a patient-centered program of care in a traditional ICU was evaluated. In the second model, care of patients hospitalized in a multidisciplinary ICU ward dedicated to the CCI was further evaluated. Indicators of staff satisfaction with respect to the care of the CCI were also identified. METHODS A before and after study was used to evaluate the 2 models of care. After implementation of the first model in 2006, an initial evaluation was performed using a questionnaire given to ICU health-care personnel. In 2009, after implementing the second model (a separate ward for the CCI), a second evaluation took place. RESULTS A total of 147 participants answered the questionnaire in both phases. Participants described CCI as a burden, and grouping these patients into 1 ward only increased this perception. Overall, the staff was more satisfied with the first model of care. In this model, the indicators of increased satisfaction were perceived access to professional development and the availability of information. CONCLUSIONS Results from this study provide information about health-care professionals' perceived burden of care when treating CCI patients. Strategies promoting professional development have a potential to increase staff satisfaction when it comes to the care of this patient group.
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Middling S, Bailey J, Maslin‐Prothero S, Scharf T. Gardening and the social engagement of older people. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1108/13663661011176660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Duffy L. "Step-by-step we are stronger": women's empowerment through photovoice. J Community Health Nurs 2011; 28:105-16. [PMID: 21541872 DOI: 10.1080/07370016.2011.564070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Photovoice, as one method of participatory action research, has been used to better understand local realities and promote health in many countries and with diverse populations. It has been especially effective as a process for women to explore health and contextual issues often related to oppression and marginalization. This article discusses the impact of a photovoice process on a small group of lone mothers carrying out a community health assessment in eastern Canada. According to the women, their level of empowerment increased considerably in the 2 years of the study and their stories of the project's impact provide the evidence.
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- Lynne Duffy
- Faculty of Nursing, University of New Brunswick, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Schofield I, Tolson D, Fleming V. How nurses understand and care for older people with delirium in the acute hospital: a Critical Discourse Analysis. Nurs Inq 2011; 19:165-76. [PMID: 22530864 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00554.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Delirium is a common presentation of deteriorating health in older people. It is potentially deleterious in terms of patient experience and clinical outcomes. Much of what is known about delirium is through positivist research, which forms the evidence base for disease-based classification systems and clinical guidelines. There is little systematic study of nurses' day-to-day practice of nursing patients with delirium. The aim was to uncover the kinds of knowledge that informs nurses' care and to explicate the basis of that knowledge. Critical Discourse Analysis is underpinned by the premise that powerful interests within society mediate how social practices are constructed. Links were made between the grammatical and lexical features of nurses' language about care in interviews and naturalistic settings, and the healthcare context. Care focused on the continuous surveillance of patients with delirium by nurses themselves or vicariously through other patients, and containment. Nurses influenced by major discourses of risk reduction and safety, constructed patients with delirium as risk objects. The philosophy of person-centred and dignified care advocated in nursing literature and government policy is an emerging discourse, though little evident in the data. The current dominant discourses on safety must give space to discourses of dignity and compassion.
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- Irene Schofield
- School of Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
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Bergdahl E, Benzein E, Ternestedt BM, Andershed B. Development of nurses’ abilities to reflect on how to create good caring relationships with patients in palliative care: an action research approach. Nurs Inq 2011; 18:111-22. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2011.00527.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Read S, Maslin-Prothero S. The involvement of users and carers in health and social research: the realities of inclusion and engagement. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2011; 21:704-13. [PMID: 21172921 DOI: 10.1177/1049732310391273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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In this article we explore the challenges to researchers intending to involve vulnerable populations in health and social care research, and provide evidence-based recommendations to support the proactive inclusion of these populations in the research process. We provide a rationale for the study, followed by the introduction and descriptions of our research experiences (presented as two case studies) to provide a contextual backcloth for the discussion.We highlight the inherent challenges in empowering vulnerable populations in research, based on the combination of our own and other people's experiences. Collectively, these illustrate and underpin practice issues, relate theory to practice in a meaningful way, and facilitate the recognition of the realities in future development in this important area of involving users and carers. We conclude by providing recommendations for future practice and research development from a wider, international perspective.
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- Sue Read
- Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.
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Beringer AJ, Fletcher ME. Developing practice and staff: enabling improvement in care delivery through participatory action research. J Child Health Care 2011; 15:59-70. [PMID: 21451011 DOI: 10.1177/1367493510395639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We describe the process and outcomes of a programme to enable improvement in care coordination in a children's hospital. Staff identified care coordination issues they wanted to improve and were facilitated to achieve change using a participatory action research (PAR) approach. The seven participating wards were each offered the same opportunity and yet the degree to which they were able to engage in the process, and the level to which they achieved outcomes, varied considerably. The most successful wards were those with proactive leadership and stable management and where a trusting relationship was established between the staff and the programme facilitator. The least successful were those experiencing ward closure, mergers or changes in management structure. We consider how the different levels of achievement can be understood and what implications this has for using participatory action research to promote service improvement and to facilitate staff development.
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- Antonia J Beringer
- Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
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Hignett S. Technology and building design: initiatives to reduce inpatient falls among the elderly. HERD-HEALTH ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH & DESIGN JOURNAL 2011; 3:93-105. [PMID: 21165854 DOI: 10.1177/193758671000300408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This paper offers a narrative exploration of interventions for inpatient falls among the elderly with respect to the design of technology (equipment and furniture) and buildings. Most of the contributory risk factors for inpatient falls among the elderly were identified in the 1950s, but incident and injury rates remain relatively unchanged in the 2000s. Interventions have predominantly focused on staff and organizational changes, for example monitoring (observation) and communication, possibly in response to increased patient privacy (isolation) in single rooms. The clinical response has been to modify the patient by means of medication review, continence management, and impact protectors. This paper considers whether technology and building design have helped or hindered the newly admitted frail and/or confused elderly patient at risk of falling, assuming the provision of good nursing and medical practice (e.g., observation, treatment, and care).
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- Sue Hignett
- Dept. of Ergonomics (Human Sciences), Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK.
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