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A model for implementing guidelines for person-centered care in a nursing home setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2014

Sofia Vikström ,
Per-Olof Sandman ,
Ewa Stenwall ,
Anne-Marie Boström ,
Lotta Saarnio ,
Kristina Kindblom ,
David Edvardsson  and
Lena Borell
Sofia Vikström*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
Per-Olof Sandman
Affiliation:
The Medical Faculty, Division of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
Ewa Stenwall
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
Anne-Marie Boström
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden Department of Geriatric Medicine, Danderyd Hospital, Danderyd, Sweden
Lotta Saarnio
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
Kristina Kindblom
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Division of Physiotherapy, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden College of Physiotherapy, Pravara Institute of Medical Science, Loni, Rahata, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
David Edvardsson
Affiliation:
The Medical Faculty, Division of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia
Lena Borell
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Sofia Vikström, Department of Neurobiology, Caring Sciences and Society, Division of Occupational Therapy, Karolinska Institutet, 141 83 Huddinge, Sweden. Phone: +46-852483802; Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

Background:

Systematic evaluations of knowledge translation interventions in nursing homes to improve practice are scarce. There is also a lack of studies focusing on creating sustainable evidence-based practice in the setting of residential dementia care.

Methods:

The aim of this paper is to describe a model for implementing national evidence-based guidelines for care of persons with dementia in nursing homes. The secondary aim is to outline the nursing home staff experiences during the first year of the implementation process. The intervention had a participatory action research approach. This included educational activities such as: (i) thematic seminars introducing national guidelines for dementia care, (ii) regular unit-based seminars; and (iii) later dissemination of information in reflective seminars and several days of poster-exhibitions. Areas of practice development were selected on each of the 24 units, based on unit-specific needs, and a quality improvement strategy was applied and evaluated. Each unit met ten times during a period of eight months. Data for this study were extracted from the reflective seminars and poster presentations, analyzed using a qualitative content analysis.

Results:

Findings showed that implementation of guidelines were perceived by staff as beneficial for both staff and the residents. However, barriers to identification of relevant sources of evidence and barriers to sustainable implementation were experienced.

Conclusions:

One of our assumptions was that dementia nursing homes can benefit from becoming knowledge driven, with care practices founded in evidence-based sources. Our findings show that to be partly true, even though most staff units found their efforts to pursue and utilize knowledge adversely impacted by time-logistics and practical workload challenges.

Keywords

nursing homenational guidelinesdementiaparticipatory action research
Type
Research Article
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 49 - 59
Copyright
Copyright © International Psychogeriatric Association 2014 

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