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Using Online Consultations to Facilitate Health and Social Care Delivery During COVID-19: An Interview Study of Care Home Staff
| العنوان: | Using Online Consultations to Facilitate Health and Social Care Delivery During COVID-19: An Interview Study of Care Home Staff |
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| المؤلفون: | Krystal Warmoth, Chloe Bennett, Jennifer Lynch, Claire Goodman |
| المصدر: | Journal of Long-Term Care (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | LSE Press, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Social Sciences |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | videoconferencing, online consultations, care homes, long-term care, residential care, Medicine, Social Sciences |
| الوصف: | Context: During the COVID-19 pandemic, UK care homes rapidly adopted videoconferencing to communicate with health and social care colleagues. Studies show that health and social care professionals adapted well to online consultations. Less well known are the views of care home staff on using online consultations and how it impacted their workload and responsibilities. Objective: To explore the experience of using videoconferencing for consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of care home staff. Method: Online interviews with care home staff [n = 13] who had facilitated videoconferencing between residents and health and social care professionals. Data were collected from June to October 2021 and analysed thematically. Findings: Experiences varied but key facilitators were having the infrastructure, training, and support for staff. Barriers were concerns about the benefits and suitability for use with older people living with dementia and/or frailty. Care home staff discussed new ways of working and undertaking new tasks. Consequently, staff developed new skills and confidence in using the technology. However, considerable time was needed to schedule, prepare, and facilitate consultations. Videoconferencing had the potential to support staff and strengthen working relationships with external professionals. Limitations: This is a small study with 13 participants from 11 care homes. It complements professional accounts of videoconferencing privileging the care home view. Implications: Fewer face-to-face meetings are anticipated to discuss residents’ care with visiting professionals. We need to address care home IT infrastructure and implicit expectations that care home staff can assimilate these changes amidst staffing shortages. A better understanding is needed about how to support care home staff in these roles, how this changes interdisciplinary working, and effects on residents’ care. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2516-9122 |
| Relation: | https://account.journal.ilpnetwork.org/index.php/lse-j-jltc/article/view/184; https://doaj.org/toc/2516-9122 |
| DOI: | 10.31389/jltc.184 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/7d5398c7b4af466b97589d5962fb5478 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.7d5398c7b4af466b97589d5962fb5478 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 25169122 |
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| DOI: | 10.31389/jltc.184 |