Development and trial of a tool to determine qualification-oriented staffing ratios using a new scientifically based procedure for standardizing staffing requirements. Pilot programme in accordance with Paragraph 8, Section 3b of the German Social Code, Vol. 11 on behalf of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV-Spitzenverband)
- Conditions
- not applicable
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031773
- Lead Sponsor
- Spitzenverband Bund der Krankenkassen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1800
Principally: voluntary praticipation.
- nursing homes:
All nursing homes in Germany that have stated their interest. The election resides with the GKV-SV.
- nursing home employees:
i) survey: all nursing home thaff that is integrated into the care of the care dependents.
ii) shadowing: all employees that work on the shadowed living area (only in the intervention group).
iii) focus groups: staff of the nursing homes in the intervention group with and without managerial responsibility that are employed in the respective nursing home since the beginning of the intervention.
iiii) analysis of competencies: all employees that work on the shadowed living area (only in the intervention group).
- care dependents:
i) survey: all care dependents that are capable to fill in the questionnaire alone or with assistance, according to the caregivers. For care dependents with cognitive decline a proxy survey will be applied.
ii) shadowing: all care dependents living in the shadowed living area.
- shadower:
i) shadowing: qualification as a care giver, participation on the training
ii) survey: none
- care dependents:
terminal patients, living in the respecting nursing home less than 4 weeks
- nursing home employees:
survey: employment starts within the survey period.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Strategy for the nationwide implementation of the concept of qualification-oriented labour-organization using a new scientifically based procedure for the standardized calculation of staffing requirements in long-term care
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Initial concept, further development to typed concepts, their trial and evaluation (quality of care, employee satisfaction, efficiency effects)