Resnick Barbara, Petzer-Aboff Ingrid, Galik Elizabeth, Russ Karin, Cayo Jeanne, Simpson Marjorie, Zimmerman Sheryl
University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore MD 21201, USA.
J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2008 Feb;9(2):102-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2007.08.011.
This study considered the factors that facilitated or prevented nursing assistants (NAs) from engaging in restorative care activities.
This was a qualitative study using a focus group methodology.
Study participants were recruited from 6 nursing homes.
Participants were nursing assistants (NAs) from a study testing the implementation of a restorative care intervention (Res-Care) study. Of the 244 NAs recruited from the 6 treatment sites, 179 were available at 12 months and 93 (52%) participated in the study.
An interview guide was used during each of the focus groups. Data analysis was done using basic content analysis.
Sixty-one codes were identified and reduced to 4 themes: facilitators of restorative care; barriers to restorative care; benefits of restorative care; and sustaining restorative care.
The findings provide an important NA perspective with regard to implementation of a restorative philosophy of care and provide recommendations for future work in this area.
