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Evaluating the effectiveness of a self-care programme for intervention in burnout and compassion fatigue among nurses working in critical care areasMokoti, Nare Jonas January 2022 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2022 / This thesis is about evaluating the effectiveness of a self-care programme for intervention in burnout and compassion fatigue among nurses working in critical care areas. A convenient sampling method of all the nurses who work in the critical care areas as per the operational definition of terms for this study was used. A total of 154 nurses in a critical care area participated in this pre-post study, of which (n=83) were CTOP Nurses and (n=71) were Forensic Nurses. The nurses completed a biographical questionnaire, the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL R-IV), the Empathy Assessment Index Scale (EAI). Nurses were divided into groups of 6 to 10 people for focus group discussions on their work experiences.
The results of the current study indicated moderate to high levels of burnout and compassion fatigue occurring with high compassion satisfaction among the nurses. However, the mean burnout scores for CTOP nurses and Forensic nurses and details indicated lack of statistically significant difference post-intervention (p>0.05). The study utilized the Context Process Outcome (CPO) model as its framework. The proximal outcomes centred around safe holding, development of awareness and self-care. Intermediate outcomes consisted of drop in burnout and compassion fatigue and the distal outcomes showed increase in empathy and revived motivation to continue work in critical areas as well as a drop in distress and increase in compassion satisfaction.
The project was ground-breaking work of research with nurses in the critical areas with regards to health promotion with promise in healthier ways of caring for the carers and their empowerment and intervention outlook on the challenges around working environment stressors and interventions. Such work could in future benefit health care professionals by predicting possible decrease in their productivity by measuring other non-invasive constructs like empathy which has shown probable predictive power on development of burnout and compassion fatigue as well as improvement of satisfaction. Future research is recommended for inclusion of other health professions in such work and not only nurses, as well as doing evaluation that allows intermittent re-alignment whenever indicated in the process of intervention
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Skriftbruk som yrkeskunnande i gymnasial lärlingsutbildning : Vård- och omsorgselevers möte med det arbetsplatsförlagda lärandets skriftpraktiker / Literacies as Vocational Knowing in Upper Secondary Apprenticeship Education : Apprentice students participation in literacy practices during workplace based learning in health care and social workPaul, Enni January 2017 (has links)
The aim of this dissertation is to describe and critically discuss the literacies apprentice-students in the Health and Social Care Programme in the upper secondary school in Sweden are given access to during the workplace-based learning part of the education. The study draws on sociocultural understandings of learning and knowing, and on perspectives developed in the field of new literacy studies of literacies as situated social practices. Ethnographically inspired methods consisting of participant observation, interviews and study of textual artefacts in both the work and school domain are used to generate data. Literacy events and literacy practices students are given the opportunity to participate in are explored as a part of tasks in the work or school domain. Additionally, the literacies students do not gain access in these workplaces but are crucial in health care and social work are explored. The results indicate that literacies in the work domain are to a large degree embedded in other work tasks. This contributes to making a large part of the reading and writing invisible for the students and their supervisors. Access to literacies at the workplace is not discussed between teachers and supervisors. A major finding is that students’ access to digital literacies in the work domain depends on the local culture of each workplace and on individual supervisor’s decisions, bringing questions of equality in the apprentice-education to the forefront. The digital literacies support central activities in the workplaces; not getting access to these practices raises questions about what kind of working life the apprentice-students are being prepared for. Thus the meaning given to the term employability, which is central in policy-documents for the apprentice education, seems to be enacted as preparing the students for a job in one position, rather than offering broad competences for advancement or changes in working life. School tasks can function in a compensatory way by introducing central texts in Health and Social care work for students, but writing these kinds of texts in the school domain are part of different literacy practices than when writing them in the work domain. Furthermore the schools have no possibilities to offer students access to the kinds of digital systems that are used in the work domain.
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"What does that mean?" Objects of significance in residential programmes for young persons in South AfricaMolepo, Phineas Lesiba 30 June 2008 (has links)
Many young persons live under difficult circumstances. Factors including
HIV/AIDS pandemic, exacerbate the need to place young persons into alternative
placements. The new and the unknown can be frightening but carrying a faithful
transitional object establishes therapeutic bridge between the old and known and
the new and unknown.
This study sought to explore South African child and youth care workers'
awareness of young persons' objects of significance in residential care settings.
The rational was that with greater awareness, important objects may become a
more useful option for the promotion of young persons' well-being.
The research confirmed that South African child and youth care workers are
aware of the existence and importance of significant objects. It further revealed
that young persons possess different objects of significance to which workers
need to pay careful attention. / Research Institute for Theology and Religion / M.Tech. (Child and Youth Care)
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"What does that mean?" Objects of significance in residential programmes for young persons in South AfricaMolepo, Phineas Lesiba 30 June 2008 (has links)
Many young persons live under difficult circumstances. Factors including
HIV/AIDS pandemic, exacerbate the need to place young persons into alternative
placements. The new and the unknown can be frightening but carrying a faithful
transitional object establishes therapeutic bridge between the old and known and
the new and unknown.
This study sought to explore South African child and youth care workers'
awareness of young persons' objects of significance in residential care settings.
The rational was that with greater awareness, important objects may become a
more useful option for the promotion of young persons' well-being.
The research confirmed that South African child and youth care workers are
aware of the existence and importance of significant objects. It further revealed
that young persons possess different objects of significance to which workers
need to pay careful attention. / Research Institute for Theology and Religion / M.Tech. (Child and Youth Care)
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