Evaluation of a support worker role, within a nurse delegation and supervision model, for provision of medicines support for older people living at home: The Workforce Innovation for Safe and Effective (WISE) Medicines Care study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lee, Cik Yin ^a,b   Beanland, Christine ^a   Goeman, Dianne ^a,c   Johnson, Ann ^d   Thorn, Juliet ^e   Koch, Susan ^b   Elliott, Rohan A ^b,e  

^a RDNS Institute   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Royal District Nursing Service Institute   (Australia)

^e AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community care workers; Community nurses; Elderly; Medication management; Medicines support; Nursing assistants; Older people; Support workers

Indexed keywords

AGED; CAREGIVER; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF CARE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF CARE;

EID: 84942928042     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-015-1120-9     Document Type: Article

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