Practice style in the nursing home: dimensions for assessment and quality improvement

Abstract

After systematically reviewing the observations and findings it was concluded that enhancing practice styles in the nursing home requires knowledge, communication, flexibility, understanding, and genuine concern on the part of nursing home staff and administrators at all levels. We acknowledge and understand, of course, that changing practice styles in nursing homes is a difficult and time-consuming process.

The associations among the ethical climate, the professional practice environment and individualized care in care settings for older people

“…() drew their conclusions merely on two units for people having severe memory disorders. More recently, supporting these earlier findings, the provision of individualized care has been found to be associated with a good working environment (Cohen‐Mansfield & Parpura‐Gill , Suhonen et al . ).…”

Caregivers’ work satisfaction and individualised care in care settings for older people

“…This is aligned with previous evidence that individualised care is associated with nurses’ autonomy at work (Tellis‐Nayak 2007, Caspar & O’Rourke 2008, Suhonen et al. 2010c), care performance, organisational policies, organisation of nursing work and the working environment (Cohen‐Mansfield & Parpura‐Gill 2008, Suhonen et al. 2009).…”

Quality of Nursing Home Care

“…11 Ratings of these items used a scale from 1 (terrible) to 7 (outstanding). A measure of overall quality of care was also computed by averaging these 4 ratings.…”