Are health behavior and psychological well-being taking into account in older people’s care and service planning in home care?
Salminen, Reetta (2021)
Salminen, Reetta
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202104205178
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202104205178
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The aim of this study is to depict the overall contents of older home care clients’ electronic care- and service plans based on the Finnish Care Classification. In addition, the aim is to evaluate how the clients’ health behaviour and psychological balance have been considered in these care and service plans. The topic is relevant in Finland and in many other countries, because structured nursing documentation is essential in everyday care giving as well as planning and assessing the care. The care and service plan is crucial to in-home care; because all the care should be based on this plan which is made in co-operation with the client.
The information was gathered from 80 care-and service plans. In care-and service plans (N=80) there were a total of 1213 documentations in FinCC-classifications, which included 596 in clients’ needs (FiCND) and 617 in nursing interventions (FiCNI).
As the results show the care- and service plans in home care are focused on physical issues and far less often psy-chological or health promotion. One of the reasons they are not so well documented could be that the issues are more difficult to address; there might be a chance that you as a home care professional cannot see all the issues related to health promotion or psychological issues.
The information was gathered from 80 care-and service plans. In care-and service plans (N=80) there were a total of 1213 documentations in FinCC-classifications, which included 596 in clients’ needs (FiCND) and 617 in nursing interventions (FiCNI).
As the results show the care- and service plans in home care are focused on physical issues and far less often psy-chological or health promotion. One of the reasons they are not so well documented could be that the issues are more difficult to address; there might be a chance that you as a home care professional cannot see all the issues related to health promotion or psychological issues.