Assessing nursing staff’s competences in mobility support in nursing-home care: development and psychometric testing of the Kinaesthetics Competence (KC) observation instrument

Heidrun Gattinger; Helena Leino-Kilpi; Virpi Hantikainen; Sascha Köpke; Stefan Ott; Beate Senn

doi:10.1186/s12912-016-0185-z

Assessing nursing staff’s competences in mobility support in nursing-home care: development and psychometric testing of the Kinaesthetics Competence (KC) observation instrument

Heidrun Gattinger, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Virpi Hantikainen, Sascha Köpke, Stefan Ott, Beate Senn

Careum School of Health

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Between 75 and 89% of residents living in long-term care facilities have limited mobility. Nurses as well as other licensed and unlicensed personnel directly involved in resident care are in a key position to promote and maintain the mobility of care-dependent persons. This requires a certain level of competence. Kinaesthetics is a training concept used to increase nursing staff’s interaction and movement support skills for assisting care-dependent persons in their daily activities. This study aims to develop and test an observation instrument for assessing nursing staff’s competences in kinaesthetics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Journal	BMC Nursing
Volume	15
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-016-0185-z
Publication status	Published - 2016

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