Resident’s Sexuality and Intimate Relationships: An Evaluation of Nursing Guidelines in Long Term Care Facilities
Hallam, Joseph (2018)
Hallam, Joseph
Yrkeshögskolan Arcada
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018083114772
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018083114772
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Sexuality and intimate relationships play an important role in human relationships. Guidelines for nurses in long-term care facilities have been reported to be insufficient and have even been reported affecting healthcare staff’s ability to provide safe quality care. With the importance and need for guidelines in this area clear, this report seeks to analyse existing nursing guidelines against a framework for quality healthcare. The ten rules developed by the Institute of Medicine in ‘Crossing the Quality Chasm’ in 2001 were chosen as the measuring stick by which five chosen sexuality and intimate relationship guidelines for long-term care were analysed.
The aim of this report was to determine why good quality guidelines are required, do the chosen guidelines fulfill the ten rules set out by the IOM for good quality care and, if found to be deficient, in what ways the guidelines may be improved.
This report was conducted as a qualitative scoping review with a deductive aspect. The guidelines were analysed against the chosen theoretical framework to see if those guidelines followed the prescriptions for good healthcare provided by the IOM. It was found that, for the most part, the guidelines did adhere to the ten rules, however deficiencies were found in two guidelines which did not adhere to one rule each. Recommendations for their improvement were provided. Looking to areas of further research, information in this area is currently lacking. Analysis of presentation style and the effectiveness of guidelines being one potential area for research growth. Analysis of guidelines using other theoretical bases should also be explored. Limitations of this report include the small number of sexuality nursing guidelines analysed which could be expanded upon in further research through contacting long-term care facilities directly.
The aim of this report was to determine why good quality guidelines are required, do the chosen guidelines fulfill the ten rules set out by the IOM for good quality care and, if found to be deficient, in what ways the guidelines may be improved.
This report was conducted as a qualitative scoping review with a deductive aspect. The guidelines were analysed against the chosen theoretical framework to see if those guidelines followed the prescriptions for good healthcare provided by the IOM. It was found that, for the most part, the guidelines did adhere to the ten rules, however deficiencies were found in two guidelines which did not adhere to one rule each. Recommendations for their improvement were provided. Looking to areas of further research, information in this area is currently lacking. Analysis of presentation style and the effectiveness of guidelines being one potential area for research growth. Analysis of guidelines using other theoretical bases should also be explored. Limitations of this report include the small number of sexuality nursing guidelines analysed which could be expanded upon in further research through contacting long-term care facilities directly.