Analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions.

Caregivers Dementia Nursing homes Professional competence Training

Journal

International journal of nursing sciences
ISSN: 2352-0132
Titre abrégé: Int J Nurs Sci
Pays: China
ID NLM: 101660887

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Apr 2020
Historique:
received: 29 07 2019
revised: 21 01 2020
accepted: 06 03 2020
entrez: 21 7 2020
pubmed: 21 7 2020
medline: 21 7 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

It is aimed to investigate the nursing competence and corresponding influence factors of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions of Tianjin and identify the training needs of caregivers. In the cross-section survey of this study, 246 dementia caregivers were selected from 6 long-term care institutions in Tianjin as objects of study through convenient sampling. The scores for nursing competence of dementia caregivers were 140.28 ± 7.73, at a moderate level. Study findings that nursing competence of dementia caregivers were positively associated with the work experience ( Long term care institutions shall arrange training no less than 12 times a year and evaluate training needs regularly to improve training effect. Providing online and offline training and adding more specialized contents like case analysis, employing experts in the field of dementia to teach courses.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32685617
doi: 10.1016/j.ijnss.2020.03.003
pii: S2352-0132(20)30041-7
pmc: PMC7355193
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

198-205

Informations de copyright

© 2020 Chinese Nursing Association. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

No conflicts of interest declared.

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Auteurs

Yaxing Wang (Y)

School of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.

Yuqi Liu (Y)

School of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.

Junxiang Tian (J)

School of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.

Mengya Jing (M)

School of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China.

Kesen Zhang (K)

Tianjin Nursing Society, Tianjin, China.

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