Personal care assistants' lived experience of working in the home setting with children and adults on mechanical ventilation.
Anette Bjerregaard AlrøCharlotte KlitnaesPia DreyerPublished in: Scandinavian journal of caring sciences (2021)
The findings provide clinical practice with important insights into how to inform, prepare and educate PCAs working with patients on mechanical ventilation in the home setting. Further research into home care education and training programmes with a patient- and family-centred care approach is needed.
Keyphrases
- mechanical ventilation
- healthcare
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- intensive care unit
- quality improvement
- end stage renal disease
- respiratory failure
- clinical practice
- palliative care
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- chronic kidney disease
- young adults
- prognostic factors
- case report
- peritoneal dialysis
- pain management
- patient reported outcomes