ArticlePalliative medicine2021
Eliciting the educational needs and priorities of home care workers on end-of-life care for patients with heart failure using nominal group technique.
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- Key elements of home care workforce capability to provide integrated home care to older people: scoping review.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Improving Palliative Care Knowledge of nurses caring for heart failure patients : Author and corresponding author.BMC palliative care · 2025Article
- Homecare workers needs and experiences in end of life care: rapid review.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2024Review
- Exploring a career pathway for home support workers in Ireland: a systematic scoping review of the international evidence.Frontiers in health services · 2024Article
- The Hidden Script of Work-Related Burdens in Home Care - A Cross Over Mixed Analysis of Audio Diaries.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023Article
- End of life decisions and preference of place of death among geriatric and chronic disease patients: A scoping review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundHome care workers, as paid caregivers, assist with many aspects of home-based heart failure care. However, most home care workers do not receive systematic training on end-of-life care for heart failure patients.
aimTo elicit the educational needs and priorities of home care workers caring for community- dwelling adults with heart failure at the end-of-life.
designNominal group technique involving a semi-quantitative structured group process and point rating system was used to designate the importance of priorities elicited from home care workers. Individual responses to the question, " SETTING/
participantsForty-one home care workers were recruited from a non-profit training and education organization in New York City.
resultsIndividual responses to the question were aggregated into five categories: (1) how to cope and grieve; (2) assisting patients with behavior changes, (3) supporting patients to improve their quality of life, (4) assisting patients with physical symptom management, and (5) symptom recognition and assessment.
conclusionsOur findings confirm the need for the formal development and evaluation of an educational program for home care workers to improve the care of heart failure patients at the end-of-life. There is also a need for research on integrating home care workers into the interprofessional healthcare team to support optimal health outcomes for patients with heart failure.
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