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| The staff's perception of a skilled nursing facility | | Author(s) | Ruth Bernstein Hyman, Wilma Bulkin, Pierre C Woog |
| Journal title | Qualitative Health Research, vol 3, no 2, May 1993 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications, London, May 1993 |
| Pages | pp 209-235 |
| Source | Sage Publications Ltd., 6 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4PU. |
| Keywords | Care home staff ; Nursing homes ; Management [care] ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In various studies of nursing homes, questions arise as to what type of institution a nursing home really is. This American study examined the meaning of a skilled nursing facility to its staff through interviews with 17 staff members and with 2 residents who were interviewed to further illuminate staff data. Thematic analysis resulted in eight themes: caring, death, food, professionalism, images of the institution, policy versus what actually happens, differentiation, and integration. The data illustrated the professionalism and caring ethic of the staff, who appeared torn between the wish to care and the need for efficiency and, at the same time, the lack of a caring ethos implicit in the staff's relative silence about death and dying and the competitiveness among disciplines. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980728215 A |
| Classmark | QRM: LHB: QA: TOB: 3DP: 7T |
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