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Assessment to intervention
— utilizing a staff needs assessment to improve care for behaviorally challenging residents in long term care (Part II) | | Author(s) | Erin L Cassidy, Craig Rosen, Nancy Solano |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 29, no 1, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 27-38 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Residents [care homes] ; Long term ; Behaviour disorders ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This paper further illustrates how a staff needs assessment can serve as the foundation for ongoing collaborations between long-term care staff and counselling clinical researchers. The first phase of the process involved gathering data via a series of semi-structured interviews with staff of a long-term care unit at the Veterans Affair Palo Alto Health Care System in California. This paper describes the second phase that involved the 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. Continuation of initiated interventions and collaboration between researchers and unit staff are two of the indicators that this model has worked. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061023006 A |
| Classmark | KX: 4Q: EP: IK: 4C: 7T |
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