May 2016 – MFT Academy Library

What Motivates Men to Choose Nursing as a Profession? A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies. (Contemporary Nurse, May 2016)

This systematic review was conducted to provide a deeper understanding of male nurses’ motivations for choosing nursing as a career. Knowledge of the factors that motivate men to choose nursing will assist in the development of evidence based recruitment strategies to increase the number of men entering the nursing profession.
Concludes that to help encourage more men to enter and remain in nursing, recruitment and retention strategies need to focus on addressing the gender stereotypes associated with the nursing profession. In addition, strategies to make nursing more welcoming to men to address attrition rates need to conceptualised, implemented and evaluated.

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Using Workforce Management Technology to Explore Dynamic Patient Events, Nurse Staffing and Missed Care. (27th International Nursing Research Congress July 2016)

The process of how to best determine nurse staffing has challenged nurse leaders for decade. Research has demonstrated that appropriate allocation of staff favorably impacts patient outcomes, patient safety, financial outcomes, and staff satisfaction (Myner et al., 2012; Shekelle, 2013). Nurse leaders are faced with higher patient acuities and unanticipated events that are not accounted for in traditional staffing models. Dynamic patient events (DPEs) have been defined in this study as rapid, unanticipated clinical situations that result in sudden shifts in nursing workload and the need to carry out rapid staffing adjustments. DPEs require vigilant attention to nurse staffing, and currently are not incorporated into staffing models at most hospitals. Increasingly, hospitals are leveraging new technologies to efficiently and effectively evaluate workload and determine staffing solutions. These new technological advances offer opportunities to measure nursing workload and determine optimal staffing. This study aims seeks to: 1). describe nurses’ perception of DPEs and their impact on workflow and patient care; and 2). examine how DPEs such as code blues, emergency response needs, bedside procedures, monitored patient travel time and requirements for patient safety attendants can be incorporated into staffing plans.

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The Impact of Adding Nursing Support Workers on Patient, Nurse and System Outcomes. (27th International Nursing Research Congress, July 2016)

Nurses are critical to improving patient outcomes but continuing shortages of registered nurses nationally and internationally, coupled with increased demands for care, mean that a different approach to nurse staffing may be necessary. One strategy is to add nursing support workers to hospital staffing. These findings will provide an evidence base for policy makers and hospital executives to plan and implement optimum nurse staffing.

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Projected Nursing Shortage: How Nurse Educators and Experience Nurses Can Ensure a Future Nursing Workforce. (27th International Nursing Congress July 2016)

Issues facing nursing practice today is a projected nursing shortage. As the current nursing workforce begins to retire, the need to fulfill nursing positions will be needed to meet demands of the growing number of patients that will require healthcare. As these nurse begin to retire within the next 10 to 15 years there will be a need for nurses. Studies have indicated that nursing shortages is evident in many areas of nursing practice including nursing faculty in schools of nursing internationally. Presently in the operating room, 51% of the nurses are over 50 years old and only 23% are under 40 year old. Therefore, issues in educating younger nurses and mentoring new nurses as they transition to nursing positions as graduates will be a challenge for the future.

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Universal breadwinner versus universal caregiver model: fathers’ involvement in caregiving and well-being of mothers of offspring with intellectual disabilities. (Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID, 2016, 29(1) pps. 34-45)

The universal breadwinner model means both parents are employed; while the universal caregiver model implies that the father’s hours of caregiving are equal or higher to those of the mother. This study aims to examine the hypothesis that the universal caregiver model is more related to the overall well-being of mothers of children with intellectual disabilities than the universal breadwinner model. Face-to-face interview surveys were conducted in 2011 in Taiwan with 876 working-age mothers who had an offspring with intellectual disabilities. The survey included 574 mothers living with their husbands who became our participants. Both anova and regression analyses indicated that, compared with mothers in the universal breadwinner group, mothers in the universal caregiver group had higher levels of maternal marital and family life satisfaction, but not of work satisfaction and quality of life. An incentive policy is critical for supporting the fathers involved in lifelong caregiving and to promote the mothers’ quality of life.

The use of information and communication technologies to support working carers of older people – a qualitative secondary analysis. (International journal of older people nursing, 2016, 11(1) pps. 32-43)

Family care support services have mainly focused on older spousal carers of older people and have largely overlooked working carers, whom combine paid work with informal/family care responsibilities. Recently, however, information and communication technology (ICT) systems have been identified as a potentially flexible way of supporting working carers.

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Leveraging the experiences of informal caregivers to create future healthcare workforce options. (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2016, 64(1) pps. 174-180)

The objective of this study was gather pilot data from informal caregivers regarding the potential for a training program to assist current or past caregivers in reentering the job market, and thus offering a pathway to economic resilience. In an effort that could foster a sustainable and competent caregiving market to help meet the needs of an aging America, whether training informal caregivers might help them transition into a paid caregiving or other health service role was explored.

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Exploring the role of occupation for spouse-carers before and after the death of a spouse with dementia. (British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2016, 79(2) pps. 69-77)

When a person with dementia dies, their former spouse-carer can find their personal resources so depleted that re-engaging in life can be difficult, leaving their mental health vulnerable. This qualitative study aimed to explore whether the occupations of spouse-carers contribute in the transition to the post-care period.

Meaning creation and employee engagement in home health caregivers. (Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2016, 30(1) pps. 57-64)

The purpose of this study is to contribute to an understanding on how home health caregivers experience engagement in their work, and specifically, how aspects of home healthcare work create meaning associated with employee engagement. Although much research on engagement has been conducted, little has addressed how individual differences such as worker orientation influence engagement, or how engagement is experienced within a caregiving context. The study is based on a qualitative study in two home homecare organisations in Denmark using a think-aloud data technique, interviews and observations. The analysis suggests caregivers experience meaning in three relatively distinct ways, depending on their work orientation. Specifically, the nature of engagement varies across caregivers oriented towards being ‘nurturers’, ‘professionals’, or ‘workers’, and the sources of engagement differ for each of these types of caregivers. The article contributes by (i) advancing our theoretical understanding of employee engagement by emphasising meaning creation and (ii) identifying factors that influence meaning creation and engagement of home health caregivers, which should consequently affect the quality of services provided home healthcare patients.

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Caregivers’ experiences derived from everyday occupations. (Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 2016, 34(1) pps. 71-87)

The stress of caring for others can put caregivers’ health at risk, yet existing occupational therapy interventions largely focus on providing direct care. Capturing caregivers’ daily lived experiences may yield insights enabling occupational therapists (OTs) to better meet a broader scope of their needs. This phenomenological study aimed to uncover the daily occupations and experiences of spousal caregivers (n = 6). Methods: Data were collected over 4 months using a time-use diary (the Daily Experiences of Pleasure, Productivity, and Restoration Profile), individual interviews, and a focus group. Results: Inductive content analysis resulted in three themes: caregivers felt conflicted by experiences of pleasure and restoration outside of caregiving, occupational experiences revealed changes in daily patterns of life, and past occupational experiences influenced perceptions of caregiving. Conclusion: These findings emphasize the need for OTs to expand their roles with caregivers, supporting their ability to provide care and maintain their health and well-being.

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