Home care nurses work: What is coordinating the work of nurses in home care?
May 21 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Join us for Dr. Kelli Stajduhar’s CRC Talks May 21, 2024, 9:30-10:30 PDT! We are hosting Tanya Sanders RN PhD who will discuss her research on home care nurses work.
Description: The need for home care is growing, but little is known about the day-to-day nursing tasks and the institutional factors that impact this work. As part of a broader Canadian study on home care systems, I conducted an institutional ethnography with home care nurses in a Western Canadian health authority. The study revealed that nurses’ work is managed through texts and electronic health documentation systems. Factors such as efficiency demands, doing more with less, task shifting, market-driven principles, and externally defined, narrow safety measures were identified in their daily work. Nurses increasingly spend more time coordinating work and client care, leaving less time for direct interaction with clients. In her presentation, Tanya will discuss these findings and invite discussion on how these insights
might drive change.
Tanya Sanders RN PhD
Tanya is a faculty member at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. She has a keen interest in community health nursing and educating nurses for future practice. Tanya believes that the challenge ahead for nurses is defining and taking hold of our future practice, leading and directing how the role(s) of registered nurses will contribute to health and the nursing profession.
Remote event. No registration required. Please join us via zoom link: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/83193653564
When available, a recording of the event will be uploaded to our YouTube page. Stay tuned!
Support for these events provided by Dr. Stajduhar and the Canada Research Chairs Program, the UVic Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health and School of Nursing. For more info, please email: palliative_approaches@uvic.ca