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Almost a third of registered aged care nurses are considering quitting within the subsequent year as a result of job stress, says a brand new University of Melbourne study.
The study, conducted by the Centre for Human Resource Management at the University of Melbourne and also the Australian Nursing Federation finds Victoria’s registered nurses in Victoria’s aged care sector are “emotionally exhausted” and not committed to their workplace.
It cites excessive workloads, price cutting, a hostile work environment and competing role demands as causing the anxiety.
The study was based on a survey of over 1000 registered nurses and personal care workers in Victoria last year.
University of Melbourne researchers Associate Professor Leisa Sargent, Professor Bill Harley and Ms Belinda Allen say the study also reveals that aged care facilities need to have to drastically boost their coaching and human resource management.
“Facilities that offer much more coaching, have rigorous recruitment, selection and performance management practices and developed grievance procedures benefit from staff who’ve a more positive attitude toward their function and far better physical and mental wellness outcomes.
“Workers at these facilities also reported that the good quality of care supplied for residents was better than workers at facilities where there were poor human resource management practices and high levels of expense cutting in relation to staffing levels. In particular having fewer residents for each and every nurse to care for was related to much less frequent medication errors.”
Associate Professor Sargent says existing Commonwealth funding arrangements for nursing homes, introduced in 1997, have placed pressure on operators to cut costs.
“The rapidly-ageing population in Australia is placing an unprecedented strain on aged-care provision and it seems likely this pressure will continue in coming years,” she says.
“This pressure is most likely to further damage the high quality of working life for staff and undermine resident care.”
A report on the findings will be presented in the Australian Nursing Federation’s Aged Care Nurses Conference in Melbourne right now (Friday), to be opened by the Federal Minister for Aging, Justine Elliot.
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The researchers have received funding from the Australian Analysis Council to further investigate these findings more than the next two years.
Source: David Scott
University of Melbourne
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