Developing a taxonomy of health care aide tasks in a personal care home

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dc.contributor.authorZinnick, Shauna Gerry
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeMenec, Verena (Community Health Sciences) Lamont, Lori (Winnipeg Regional Health Authority)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorDoupe, Malcolm (Community Health Sciences)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-16T16:07:14Z
dc.date.available2016-09-16T16:07:14Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.degree.disciplineCommunity Health Sciencesen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science (M.Sc.)en_US
dc.description.abstractPurpose: to understand the tasks that health care aides (HCAs) are responsible for in a nursing home setting, and to understand which of these tasks HCAs feel are more important. Methods: In Phase 1, focus groups were conducted to validate the list of tasks and ensure HCAs could differentiate between them, according to task urgency, quality of care, and quality of life. During Phase 2, HCAs participated in a Delphi process to reach consensus on the relative importance of these tasks. Results: Participants reached consensus that 12 of 31 tasks were highly important according to task urgency. Of these, 10 were from the medical domain (e.g., skin care). Similar results were reached for the other definitions of importance. Conclusions: This study provides a framework for classifying HCA tasks into three domains (medical, social and indirect). Irrespective of the definition of importance used, medical tasks are consistently deemed as more important.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2016en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/31797
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectTaxonomyen_US
dc.subjectHealth care aideen_US
dc.subjectNursing homeen_US
dc.subjectPersonal care homeen_US
dc.subjectTasken_US
dc.subjectMedical domainen_US
dc.subjectSocial domainen_US
dc.subjectLong term careen_US
dc.subjectDelphi techniqueen_US
dc.subjectFocus groupen_US
dc.titleDeveloping a taxonomy of health care aide tasks in a personal care homeen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
local.subject.manitobayesen_US
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