Employee Experiences Providing Nutritional Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q3 GERONTOLOGY

Canadian Journal on Aging-Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI:10.1017/S0714980823000764

Heather Alford, Paulette Hunter, Allison Cammer

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Abstract

Nutritional care is a critical, yet often overlooked component of quality care in long-term care (LTC) that is linked to culture, socialization, and residents' psychological and physiological well-being. Given that several COVID-19 infection control protocols affected nutritional care, this study aimed to understand employees' experiences of these changes. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with Saskatchewan healthcare employees from several disciplines, all of whom had a role in supporting nutritional care in LTC. The resulting interview transcripts were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Three main themes characterized the interviewees' reflections: regression to an institutional mealtime environment, unrealistic expectations, and concern for residents. Given the centrality of nutritional care to quality of life, strategies tailored to support staff in providing relationship-centered nutritional care must be further articulated to maintain standards of care for LTC residents in future outbreaks and epidemics.

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员工在 COVID-19 大流行期间提供营养护理的经历。

营养护理是长期护理（LTC）中优质护理的一个重要组成部分，但却经常被忽视，它与文化、社会化以及居民的心理和生理健康息息相关。鉴于 COVID-19 的几项感染控制协议影响了营养护理，本研究旨在了解员工对这些变化的感受。研究人员对来自萨斯喀彻温省多个学科的医疗保健员工进行了七次半结构化访谈，这些员工都在支持长者护理中心的营养护理方面发挥了作用。我们采用反思性主题分析法对访谈记录进行了分析。受访者的反思有三大主题：回归机构用餐环境、不切实际的期望以及对居民的关心。鉴于营养护理对生活质量的核心作用，必须进一步阐明支持员工提供以关系为中心的营养护理的策略，以便在未来的疫情和流行病爆发中保持对长期护理中心居民的护理标准。

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Canadian Journal on Aging-Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement GERONTOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.40

自引率

5.30%

发文量

109

期刊介绍： The Canadian Journal on Aging/La Revue canadienne du vieillissement (CJA/RCV) promotes excellence in research and disseminates the latest work of researchers in the social sciences, humanities, health and biological sciences who study the older population of Canada and other countries; informs policy debates relevant to aging through the publication of the highest quality research; seeks to improve the quality of life for Canada"s older population and for older populations in other parts of the world through the publication of research that focuses on the broad range of relevant issues from income security to family relationships to service delivery and best practices.