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Assessment to intervention
— utilizing a staff needs assessment to improve care for behaviorally challenging residents in long term care (Part I) | | Author(s) | Erin L Cassidy, Craig Rosen, Joan Cook |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 28, no 4, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 29-42 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Long term ; Behaviour disorders ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This first of two papers illustrates how a staff needs assessment can serve as the foundation for ongoing collaborations between long-term care staff and counselling clinical researchers. The needs assessment was an example of a three-phase model of consultation and intervention to improve resident care and reduce staff burden in a psychiatric nursing home unit managing aggressive and disruptive residents. The first phase of the process involved gathering data via a series of semi-structured interviews with 78 staff members of a long-term care unit at the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital in California. The second phase (discussed in more detail in Part II) involved implementation of a series of interventions aimed at supporting staff in dealing with disruptive and aggressive behaviour. The final phase, which is continuing, is monitoring and refining the interventions based on staff feedback and the results of programme evaluation. Such an approach allows interventions to target the concerns and needs of a particular setting. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061023003 A |
| Classmark | KX: 4Q: EP: IK: 4C: 7T |
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