The increase in illegal private duty nurses in public Greek hospitals

Fouka, Georgia; Plakas, Sotirios; Papageorgiou, Dimitrios; Mantzorou, Marianna; Kalemikerakis, Ioannis; Vardaki, Zambia

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2834.2012.01409.x

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“…This workforce, mainly consisting of immigrants, provides cheaper but undocumented work and is thus illegal. This development warrants serious consideration and has already been discussed by the authors in another paper (Fouka et al. 2012).…”

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confidence: 69%

Private duty nurses in Greek hospitals: a literature review

Papageorgiou

Fouka²,

Plakas

et al. 2012

International Nursing Review

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The existence of private duty nursing has been largely responsible for protecting healthcare authorities from the need to develop effective care infrastructures. In the current economic climate, nursing and healthcare authorities must staff wards appropriately for safe, free and efficient care for all patients. Effective utilization of the national nursing and healthcare workforce--including PDNs with appropriate qualifications--and matching demand with the necessary skills is essential.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 69%

Private duty nurses in Greek hospitals: a literature review

Papageorgiou

Fouka²,

Plakas

et al. 2012

International Nursing Review

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“…While some families incorporate a strong emphasis on care for older relatives, other families encourage women to join the workforce resulting in a more diverse and vulnerable family unit than in past generations. 16 In Israel, 12 paid carers act as an alternative. They are mostly foreign and are an attractive option given their willingness to provide care at a relatively low cost.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They are mostly foreign and are an attractive option given their willingness to provide care at a relatively low cost. 16 Our aim was to explore the caregiving arrangement of live-in paid carers who accompany an older adult during his or her hospital admission. We were interested in the explicit and implicit roles of live-in paid carers and the presence of role conflict or role dispute within the hospital.…”

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Personal home care workers’ role in hospital: a qualitative study

Ayalon

Halevy-Levin

Ben-Yizhak

et al. 2015

J Health Serv Res Policy

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“…Such practice makes it difficult for nurses to understand the meaning and value of their work, reduces professional autonomy and motivation, and decreases involvement in work and job satisfaction. All those negative factors result nurses' work related stress, burnout and the intent to leave the profession (Amendolair, 2012;Fouka et al, 2013;Goldsworthy, 2016;Timmins, Parissopoulos, Plakas, & Fouka, 2017;Martin & Warshawsky, 2017;Virkstis, Herleth, & Langr, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Managing Human Resources in Nursing: The Relationship of Nurses’ Working Time and Patients’ Independence Level

Čiarnienė

Suprikienė

Čiutienė

et al. 2019

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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A skilled, competent, and motivated nursing workforce is crucial for a well-functioning health care system. Nurses’ professional activities done on a regular basis, their workload, and occupancy are related to the patient’s health status, dependence level and care needs. Therefore, managing human resources in nursing by effectively distributing nurses’ working time and monitoring their workload for safe and high quality care, managers should rely on the severity of patients’ health status and their independence level. In this article the results on how nurses’ working time depends on patients’ independence are provided. The research was carried out at a regional hospital, in departments of medical profile. The time-and-motion study was implemented with 72 observations made in total, which amounted to 777.2 hours of nursing time. A questionnaire was used to assess the level of patients’ independence by assessing the four activities of the patient’s daily living. The results revealed that the largest amount of nurses’ working time, i.e. almost half of a day’s shift, was spent on direct patient care by administrating medication use and performing various nursing procedures. Nurses would spend almost half of the time for direct patient care on completely dependent patients, while one third would be spent on dependent patients. The relative number of nurses’ contacts with a patient is directly proportional to patient’s level of independence; a strong or fairly strong linear relationship was established betweenn the level of patients’ independence and the relative amount of nurses’ working time.

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The increase in illegal private duty nurses in public Greek hospitals

Abstract: Managers ought to establish ways of improving the regulation and monitoring of illegal private duty nurses, in order to optimize the health, safety and wellbeing of patients.

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Private duty nurses in Greek hospitals: a literature review

Private duty nurses in Greek hospitals: a literature review

Personal home care workers’ role in hospital: a qualitative study

Managing Human Resources in Nursing: The Relationship of Nurses’ Working Time and Patients’ Independence Level

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