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Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to understand the stress, preparedness, and skill in foreign care workers caring for home-dwelling disabled patients.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to understand the relationships between the stress, preparedness, and skill in foreign care workers caring for home-dwelling disabled patients.
To explore the stress, preparedness, and skill in foreign care workers caring for home-dwelling disabled patients.
Methods:
A cross-sectional descriptive design with purposive sampling was used to obtain data from 101 foreign nurse aids who continuous care disabled patients at home in Taiwan. Data collection were performed by well-trained research assistants and structure questionnaires.
Results:
(1)Stress of foreign care workers come from the nature of work and environment specialty; (2)The scores of care preparedness and skill were negatively correlated with the sum of stress of foreign care workers(p<0.01). On the other hand, foreign care workers’ care preparedness perception was positively correlated with the skill which caring for home-dwelling disabled patients(p<0.01); (3)There were many significant relationships between foreign care workers characteristics with the scores of stress, care preparedness, and skill related factors.
Conclusion: The findings would be helpful as a reference in planning clinical care standard to improve the quality of homecare and as a baseline data for future research.
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