| Title |
A Study on Care Support Setting for Nursing Assistants to Improve Care Quality in Elderly Nursing Homes in Seoul |
| Authors |
Chung Mi-Ryum ; Park Young-Ki |
| Keywords |
Nursing Home ; Nursing Assistant ; Nursing Aids ; Care Environment |
| Abstract |
With the increase of elderly population and public sympathy on the social responsibility of the long-term care for the elderly with chronic geriatric disease, nursing home and her specialized staffs are rising as important issue. Among the staffs, nursing assistants are responsible for most of direct care, such as perineal care, toileting, dressing, basic hygiene care, food preparation, cleaning, transfer aid between bed and wheelchair, conversation and program aid. Even though their role is critical to the clients' quality of life, they are suffering from heavy workload, low wage, unstable employment situation and so on, which lead to low job satisfaction and high turn-over rate. The purpose of this study is to analyze their satisfactory level with current care support environment, and its influence on the quality of care. Among 5 elderly long-term care facilities with over 70 beds, running with unit care concept, 3 cooperative facilities were selected. Structured questionnaire survey was performed on Nursing assistants, and 94 cases were analyzed. As a result, it turned out that there was a correlation between nursing aids' satisfactory level with current care support setting and quality of care. Since care support setting had not been considered enough when the nursing homes were designed, physical care support settings appeared to be more urgent matter than social and psychological care support environment. |