We’re told, ‘Suck it up’: Long-Term Care Workers’ Psychological Health and Safety

Braedley, Susan; Owusu, Prince; Przednowek, Anna; Armstrong, Pat

doi:10.1007/s12126-017-9288-4

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“…It is clear, that the level of work stress experienced by support workers can have wideranging implications on the healthcare organizations and the quality of care they aim to deliver. However, to our knowledge, no studies have specifically explored the experience of work stress from the perspective of support-workers in a long-term care setting; with recent calls for research addressing this issue (Braedley, Owusu, Przednowek, & Armstrong, 2018).…”

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Support workers’ experiences of work stress in long-term care settings: a qualitative study

Czuba

Kayes

McPherson

2019

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Background: Support-workers' performance and well-being are challenged by increasingly high workloads and poor working conditions, leading to high levels of occupational stress. Aims: To explore the experiences of work stress for support-workers in New Zealand residential facilities. Design: An Interpretive Descriptive study. Methods: Data from ten (n = 10) support-workers were collected between December 2013 and June 2014, using semi-structured in-depth face-to-face interviews. Thematic analysis was used to identify key themes that captured participant reports of their experiences. Results: Work stress was conceptualized by participants as being an everyday experience of having too much to deal with and feeling under constant pressure. It appeared to be a complex and fluid experience representing an inherent, dynamic tension between reasons to be a caregiver and the burden of caregiving. Participants highlighted a range of influencing factors (including lack of recognition, person and work context, and coping strategies), which may account for that fluidity. Conclusion: The findings extend current knowledge about support-workers' work stress by identifying the challenges relating to the lack of recognition of their role and expertize, the unintended consequences of person-centered care and the challenges faced by migrant support-workers.

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Support workers’ experiences of work stress in long-term care settings: a qualitative study

Czuba

Kayes

McPherson

2019

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…• are mainly middle-aged or older women (66%-71%) (Estabrooks et al 2015b) • are often newcomers or immigrants (60% of care aides working in urban areas), with English as their second language (Chamberlain et al 2019b) • are often not required to complete any continuing education and are often not offered it (Estabrooks et al 2015b) • often work in more than one job (25%-30%) and in health care settings other than nursing homes (e.g., hospitals; 15%) (Estabrooks et al 2015b;Hewko et al 2015;Chamberlain et al 2019b;Song et al 2020a;Van Houtven et al 2020;Yinfei et al 2020) • often work short-staffed (Song et al 2020b) • have insufficient time to complete necessary care tasks and must rush essential care (up to 65% of care aides per shift) (Song et al 2020a) • are at worryingly high risk for burnout and physical injury (Estabrooks et al 2015b;Hewko et al 2015;Chamberlain et al 2017Chamberlain et al , 2019b • report feeling that their work is important and has meaning, despite high levels of work-related stress (Estabrooks et al 2015b;Chamberlain et al 2019b;Song et al 2020b) The impact of COVID-19 on psychological health and safety of direct care workers in nursing homes is being added to already worrisome pre-existing trends (Braedley et al 2018). Studies from the 2003 SARS epidemic (Styr et al 2008) and recent studies documenting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on point-of-care workers in China (Lai et al 2020b) point to severe long-term traumatic impacts on mental health of point-of-care staff.…”

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Restoring trust: COVID-19 and the future of long-term care in Canada

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The Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19 was formed in April 2020 to provide evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery from COVID-19. The Task Force established a series of working groups to rapidly develop policy briefings, with the objective of supporting policy makers with evidence to inform their decisions. This paper reports the findings of the COVID-19 Long-Term Care (LTC) working group addressing a preferred future for LTC in Canada, with a specific focus on COVID-19 and the LTC workforce. First, the report addresses the research context and policy environment in Canada’s LTC sector before COVID-19 and then summarizes the existing knowledge base for integrated solutions to challenges that exist in the LTC sector. Second, the report outlines vulnerabilities exposed because of COVID-19, including deficiencies in the LTC sector that contributed to the magnitude of the COVID-19 crisis. This section focuses especially on the characteristics of older adults living in nursing homes, their caregivers, and the physical environment of nursing homes as important contributors to the COVID-19 crisis. Finally, the report articulates principles for action and nine recommendations for action to help solve the workforce crisis in nursing homes.

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“…These aspects of the work itself make it difficult to demonstrate that workers did not incite the sexual advance in some way. Indeed, research suggests that managers may blame care workers for residents’ sexual advances and that workers generally feel unsupported by management when it comes to addressing harassment from residents (Braedley, Owusu, Przednowek, & Armstrong, 2017; Daly et al, 2011; Morgan et al, 2008).…”

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Problematizing Sexual Harassment in Residential Long-Term Care: The Need for a More Ethical Prevention Strategy

Grigorovich

Kontos

2019

Can. J. Aging

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RÉSUMÉLa promotion des droits sexuels dans les établissements de soins de longue durée est complexe sur le plan éthique, étant donné que ce milieu est à la fois une résidence et un lieu de travail. Bien que les données empiriques démontrent que le bien-être des soignants professionnels et des résidents sont inextricablement liés, les politiques publiques au Canada ne reconnaissent généralement pas cette relation et continuent de se concentrer isolément sur le bien-être des résidents ou des travailleurs. Les conséquences problématiques de cette situation sont particulièrement mises en évidence lorsque l’on considère les défis associés à la prévention du harcèlement sexuel envers les travailleurs, dans un contexte où l’on ne veut pas restreindre indûment la liberté d’expression sexuelle des résidents atteints de démence. Nous avons utilisé l’approche « Quel est le problème représenté ? » (“What’s the Problem Represented to be?”) de Carol Bacchi pour analyser de façon critique un plan d’action canadien récent visant à prévenir la violence et le harcèlement sexuels. Notre analyse suggère que cette approche de prévention du harcèlement sexuel n’est pas une politique publique prometteuse et pourrait même contribuer à augmenter le phénomène qu’elle vise à corriger. Il est donc urgent de concentrer les efforts de prévention sur les facteurs structurels de ce phénomène afin de soutenir les droits sexuels des soignants et des résidents.

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We’re told, ‘Suck it up’: Long-Term Care Workers’ Psychological Health and Safety

Cited by 38 publications

References 48 publications

Support workers’ experiences of work stress in long-term care settings: a qualitative study

Support workers’ experiences of work stress in long-term care settings: a qualitative study

Restoring trust: COVID-19 and the future of long-term care in Canada

Problematizing Sexual Harassment in Residential Long-Term Care: The Need for a More Ethical Prevention Strategy

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