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Relocation of the Vegreville Care Centre: The Impact of Changing Environments on Residents, Family Caregivers, and Staff
Download2010-02-01
Strain, Laurel A., Wanless, Deanna
This case study focused on the relocation of an institutional, hospital-like long-term care facility to a purpose-built, cottage-style facility. Information was collected from residents, family caregivers, and staff prior to the move, 4 months after and 12 months after the move. Key informant...
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Relocation of the Vegreville Care Centre: The Impact of Changing Environments on Residents, Family Caregivers, and Staff: Executive Summary
Download2010-02-01
Strain, Laurel A., Wanless, Deanna
This case study focused on the relocation of an institutional, hospital-like long-term care facility to a purpose-build, cottage-style facility. Information was collected from residents, family caregivers, and staff prior to the move, 4 months after and 12 months after the move. Key informant...
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Fall 2014
Purpose: My aim in this thesis was to investigate the relationship between resident aggression towards care aides and quality of care in long-term care (LTC). Design: This is a paper-based thesis comprised of an introduction and overview, a critical review of the literature and an empirical...
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2011
Barnard, D., Norton, P.G., Cranley, L.A., Estabrooks, C.A., Cummings, G.G.
Background: The current profile of residents living in Canadian nursing homes includes elder persons with complex physical and social needs. High resident acuity can result in increased staff workload and decreased quality of work life. Aims: Safer Care for Older Persons [in residential]...
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2011-05-01
This 4-page document prepared for family caregivers provides selected findings about designated assisted living (DAL), from a large-scale, longitudinal study involving over 2000 older adults residing in designated assisted living and long-term care in Alberta, their family caregivers, and the...
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2011-05-01
This 4-page document prepared for family caregivers provides selected findings on long-term care (LTC), from a large-scale, longitudinal study involving over 2000 older adults residing in designated assisted living and long-term care in Alberta, their family caregivers, and the facilities in...
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Self-employed nurses as change agents in healthcare: strategies, consequences, and possibilities
Download2014
Purpose: This article reports on ethnographic research that investigated how self-employed nurses perceive the contemporary healthcare field, what attributes they possess that facilitate their roles as change agents, what strategies they use to influence change, and what consequences they face...
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2012-06-01
Bindiganavile, V.S., Lubell, A.S., Shoaib, A.
Hooked end steel fibers were included between 0~1% by volume to provide enhanced shear resistance to three different types of steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) namely, a regular concrete mix, a lightweight aggregate mix and a high strength mix. The test results at the material scale showed a...
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Fall 2012
Del Carpio Ovando, Karla Berenice
Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, this research investigated the situation of the Tsotsil language spoken in Chenalhó, Chiapas, Mexico, by focusing on the implementation of a Spanish-Tsotsil bilingual elementary school. It was possible to discover that the Tsotsil language is still alive...