DEVELOPING COMPETENCE FOR NURSES AND SOCIAL WORKERS

Informal caregivers--primarily family members--are the foundation of rehabilitation, chronic care, and long-term support for older persons. The growing population of older persons and the changing health care delivery system (for example, shortened hospital stays) demand more of family caregivers an...

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Published in:Journal of social work education 2008-09, Vol.44 (sup3), p.27-37
Main Author: Damron-Rodriguez, JoAnn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accreditation
Adult learning
Caregivers
Cooperative learning
Cultural Awareness
Delivery Systems
Evidence
Evidence-based medicine
Evidence-based nursing
Family (Sociological Unit)
Graduate Study
Higher education
Hospitals
Nurses
Nursing Education
Older Adults
Rehabilitation
Skills
Social Work
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Informal caregivers--primarily family members--are the foundation of rehabilitation, chronic care, and long-term support for older persons. The growing population of older persons and the changing health care delivery system (for example, shortened hospital stays) demand more of family caregivers and increase the toll on their health. To help them cope with these demands, nurses and social workers, who treat diverse older populations, must have cultural competence to enable them to practice effectively with caregivers. Along with increasing the emphasis on evidence-based practice, health care education is moving to a competence-based approach with clearly measured outcomes. In this article, literature from the past decade, especially systematic reviews of evidence-based-practice dissemination and training, is used to inform nurse and social worker competence in supporting family caregivers. The reviews were from the medical education literature as well as from nursing and social work education, and some studies involved students and residents, not only postgraduate practitioners. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
ISSN:1043-7797
2163-5811
DOI:10.5175/JSWE.2008.773247708