Home care workers' experiences of work conditions related to their occupational health: a qualitative study

SG Grasmo, IF Liaset, SE Redzovic - BMC health services research, 2021 - Springer
Background The need for home care workers (HCWs) is rapidly growing in Norway due to
the increasingly growing elderly population. HCWs are exposed to a number of occupational …

Home healthcare workers' occupational exposures

E Bien, K Davis, G Gillespie - Home Healthcare Now, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Home healthcare workers (HHCWs) belong to one of the fastest growing industries and
have an unpredictable work environment, potentiating their risk of exposures to occupational …

Infection prevention and control practices in the home environment: Examining enablers and barriers to adherence among home health care nurses

V Adams, J Song, J Shang, M McDonald… - American journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices have been established in
home health care. Adherence to IPC practices has been suboptimal with limited available …

Observation of hand hygiene practices in home health care

MV McDonald, C Brickner, D Russell… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective To describe nurse hand hygiene practices in the home health care (HHC) setting,
nurse adherence to hand hygiene guidelines, and factors associated with hand hygiene …

Home health aides' experiences of their occupational health: a qualitative meta-synthesis

S Grønoset Grasmo, I Frostad Liaset… - Home Health Care …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Home health aides (HHA) have high sickness absence while the need for home care
services is rapidly growing. The aim of this study was to derive new conceptual …

Social risk factors are associated with risk for hospitalization in home health care: a natural language processing study

M Hobensack, J Song, S Oh, L Evans… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective This study aimed to develop a natural language processing (NLP) system that
identified social risk factors in home health care (HHC) clinical notes and to examine the …

Student nurses' experience using a serious game to learn environmental hazard and safety assessment

S Volejnikova-Wenger, P Andersen, KA Clarke - Nurse Education Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge acquisition facilitated by computer games, also referred to as digital
game-based learning, is growing in popularity as an educational modality for healthcare …

Reducing lumbar spine flexion using real-time biofeedback during patient handling tasks

M Owlia, M Kamachi, T Dutta - Work, 2020 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: Patient handling activities require caregivers to adopt postures that
increase the risk of back injury. Training programs relying primarily on didactic methods …

Efficacy and usability of a virtual simulation training system for health and safety hazards encountered by healthcare workers

BJ Polivka, S Anderson, SA Lavender… - Games for health …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Objective: This study evaluated the efficacy, usability, usefulness, and desirability (UUD) of a
Home Healthcare Interactive Virtual Simulation Training System (HH-VSTS) designed to …

Challenges facing home-based caregivers in the management of health care risk waste

T Zikhathile, H Atagana - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The quadruple burden of diseases, early discharge from hospital and hospital at home have
resulted in home-based care services becoming a requirement in South Africa. These home …