The impact of work culture on quality of care in nursing homes – a review study

André, Beate; Sjøvold, Endre; Rannestad, Toril; Ringdal, Gerd Inger

doi:10.1111/scs.12086

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“…[6,19,44] In this study as much as 39% had less than 3 years University education. Sick leave can lead to unstable work conditions, higher level of work stress, accident rates, burnout rates, and higher adverse event related to patient quality issues.…”

Section: Characteristics Of the Work Environment In Norwegian Nursingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[35] These are important issues in work environment in nursing homes. [19] Sense of Coherence (SoC) was assessed by a six-item version [36] of the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (items are numbered 8, 10, 15, 22, 24 and 27 in the longer, 29-item version of this questionnaire) by Antonovsky.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A relationship between empowerment, communication, participation and influence on one hand, and quality of care in nursing homes on the other hand, has been identified. [19] Little is known about the issues that may foster a health promotive or a positive work environment in Norwegian nursing homes. In this study we have aimed to reveal the characteristic of the work environment in Norwegian nursing homes with a survey, and to explore these characteristics more thorough with qualitative research interviews.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This is important knowledge to be able to initiate changes. [19] In this present study we explored, quantitatively, the health care workers perception of their work culture. In our qualitative approach we wanted to explore how positively oriented individuals characterize their work environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These are important issues also in Nursing Homes, and must be focused on. [19] In Norway HWE represents a new perspective on work culture.…”

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Exploring experiences of fostering positive work environment in Norwegian nursing homes: A multi method study

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Objective: The aim of the study is to explore what characterizes the work culture in Norwegian nursing homes and what promotes the positive aspects in the work culture. Methods: Research design: Multimethod research. Two surveys (N = 105) and interviews with 11 informants at three Norwegian nursing homes were conducted. We included the questionnaires: The Systematizing Person-Group Relations, that seek to explore which aspects dominate the particular work environment identifying challenges, limitations and opportunities and The Sense of Coherence (SoC) that was used as an indicator for overall quality of working life with a salutogenic orientation. The data were analyzed using independent samples student's t-test and factor analyses, the material from the interviews was systemized and worked through using well known analytical methods. Results: The results showed that the informants feel more meaning, manageability and comprehensibility in their work environment, when they are engaged and focused on goal orientation. In the interviews the informants expressed engagement related to their work environment and to patients and colleagues. They mentioned that being a team and working together was positive for their perception of their work environment. A positive work culture was characterized by solution orientation and the experiences of better opportunity to "attend to the patients in a good way". Conclusions: It seems like healthcare workers as individuals has both a positive attitude and ways to express this in the work culture, such as humor and positive thinking. But the work culture itself seems to create some negative issues.

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Section: Characteristics Of the Work Environment In Norwegian Nursingmentioning

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Section: Questionnairesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These are important issues also in Nursing Homes, and must be focused on. [19] In Norway HWE represents a new perspective on work culture.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Future Perspectives of Health Care: Closing Remarks

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2021

Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research

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The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of our health care systems as well as our societies. During the year of 2020, we have witnessed how whole societies globally have been in a turbulent state of transformation finding strategies to manage the difficulties caused by the pandemic. At first glance, the health promotion perspective might seem far away from handling the serious impacts caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, as health promotion is about enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, paradoxically health promotion seems to be ever more important in times of crisis and pandemics. Probably, in the future, pandemics will be a part of the global picture along with the non-communicable diseases. These facts strongly demand the health care services to reorient in a health promoting direction.The IUHPE Global Working Group on Salutogenesis suggests that health promotion competencies along with a reorientation of professional leadership towards salutogenesis, empowerment and participation are required. More specifically, the IUHPE Group recommends that the overall salutogenic model of health and the concept of SOC should be further advanced and applied beyond the health sector, followed by the design of salutogenic interventions and change processes in complex systems.

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The impact of work culture on quality of care in nursing homes – a review study

Cited by 70 publications

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Exploring experiences of fostering positive work environment in Norwegian nursing homes: A multi method study

Exploring experiences of fostering positive work environment in Norwegian nursing homes: A multi method study

Person-Centred Care and Quality of Life

Future Perspectives of Health Care: Closing Remarks

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