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The influence of organizational context on best practice use by care aides in residential long-term care settings.

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OBJECTIVE:This study assessed individual and organizational context (work environment) factors that influence use of best practices by care aides (nursing assistants) in nursing homes. Little scientific attention has been focused on understanding best practice use in nursing homes and almost none on care aides. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:A total of 1262 care aides in 25 nursing homes in the 3 Canadian prairie provinces. Care aides are unregulated workers who provide 80% of direct care to residents in Canadian nursing homes. METHOD:We used hierarchical linear modeling to (1) assess the amount of variance in use of best practices, as reported by care aides, that could be attributed to individual or organizational factors, and (2) identify predictors of best practices use by care aides. RESULTS:At the individual level, statistically significant predictors of instrumental use of best practices included sex, age, shift worked, job efficacy, and belief suspension. At the unit level, significant predictors were social capital, organizational slack (staffing and time), number of informal interactions, and unit type. At the facility level, ownership model and province were significant. Significant predictors of conceptual use of best practices at the individual level included English as a first language, job efficacy, belief suspension, intent to use research, adequate knowledge, and number of information sources used. At the unit level, significant predictors were evaluation (feedback mechanisms), structural resources, and organizational slack (time). At the facility level, province was significant. The R(2) was 18.3% for instrumental use of best practices and 43.4% for conceptual use. Unit level factors added a substantial amount of explained variance whereas facility level factors added relatively little explained variance. CONCLUSIONS:Our study suggests that context plays an important role in care aides' use of best practices in nursing homes. Individual characteristics played a more prominent role than contextual factors in predicting conceptual use of best practices.

journal_name

J Am Med Dir Assoc

journal_title

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

authors

Estabrooks CA,Squires JE,Hayduk L,Morgan D,Cummings GG,Ginsburg L,Stewart N,McGilton K,Kang SH,Norton PG

doi

10.1016/j.jamda.2015.03.009

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-06-01 00:00:00

pages

537.e1-10

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eissn

1525-8610

issn

1538-9375

pii

S1525-8610(15)00223-6

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The influence of organizational context on best practice use by care aides in residential long-term care settings.