Care home workers experiences of stress and coping during COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods study.

Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the stress and coping experiences of healthcare workers (HCWs) in care home settings in Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: A cross-sectional mixed methods study was conducted using an online survey and interviews.

Methods: Mean scores were calculated for both stress and coping and t-tests used to explore possible links to demographics.

Sliding doors: Did drama-based inter-professional education improve the tensions round person-centred nursing and social care delivery for people with dementia: A mixed method exploratory study.

This educational intervention takes place when the population of older people with dementia is increasing. Health and Social care professionals must work jointly in increasingly complex contexts. Negative attitudes towards older people are cited as a contributor to poor care delivery, including the use of dismissive and/or patronising language, failing to meet fundamental needs and afford choice.

Oral health.

If the oral health problems of older people are left undetected or untreated, physical, psychological and social health can deteriorate ( Public Health England (PHE) 2015 ).

Using gaming workshops to prepare nursing students for caring for older people in clinical practice.

Background: Older people are the least satisfied with the care they receive when they are acutely ill. Furthermore, within nurse education, nursing older people has been submerged rather than embedded in the acute focus of nursing curricula. Lecturers designed a 1-day gaming workshop to stimulate interest in nursing older people.

Promoting social continence using incontinence management products.

Urinary incontinence (UI) is a common problem which affects men and women for a variety of reasons. For some people with UI cure is not achievable. For others, time is required to accurately diagnose and treat their urinary symptoms.

Promoting effective continence care for older people: a literature review.

Recent United Kingdom guidelines have identified the need for integrated continence services within health regions. While there is evidence of improvements in community services there is little evidence that the quality of nursing care offered for older people with urinary incontinence in care settings has improved. This literature review identifies some of the underpinning issues that impact on continence promotion for older people.

Medication issues for nursing older people (part 2).

This article aims to raise awareness about professional responsibility and accountability in medication issues that impact on older people. Nurses must recognise their responsibilities in regard to the safe administration of medicines and challenge poor drug administration practices.

Medication issues for nursing older people (part 1).

This article aims to raise awareness about professional responsibility and accountability in medication issues that impact on older people. Nurses must recognise their responsibilities in regard to the safe administration of medicines and challenge poor drug administration practices.

Nurses' perceptions of indwelling urinary catheters in older people.

Aim: To explore nurses' perceptions about whether urinary continence is promoted for older people in acute medical and specialist medicine for the elderly care settings, or whether containment strategies are used.

Method: A qualitative approach was adopted using five focus group interviews (n = 17) and four semi-structured single interviews (n = 4). Data were analysed thematically using the computer software package QSR NVivo 2.

Do nurses promote urinary continence in hospitalized older people?: An exploratory study.

Aim: The aim of this paper is to explore whether nurses working in elderly medicine and in acute medical settings promote urinary continence in older people or in reality use containment strategies.

Background: Untreated urinary incontinence in older adults can result in prolonged hospital admission and increased risk of admission to long-term care. Urinary incontinence can also have severe psychosocial effects on older people.