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| The impact of cognitively impaired patients and shift on nursing assistant stress | | Author(s) | Mark Novak, Neena L Chappell |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 43, no 3, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 235-248 |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Care home staff ; Nursing Auxiliary ; Stress ; Measurement ; Canada. |
| Annotation | This Canadian study compared the stress experienced by nursing assistants (NAs) under four work conditions: high or low proportion of cognitively impaired patients, and day or other shift. There were five standard measures of caregiver stress: burden, reaction to patient behaviours, workload, and two measures of burnout. Findings showed that specific combinations of shift and patient type can create excessive feelings of burden for NAs, and a tendency for them to depersonalise their patients. The combination of caring only for cognitively impaired patients and working the day shift, for example, puts NAs at greatest risk of feeling burdened - arising from care for active patients - and showing responses similar to those of family caregivers who feel overwhelmed by the demands of caring. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970731238 A |
| Classmark | E4: QRM: QTE:4UA: QNH: 3R: 7S |
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