The relationship between implementation of unit-care training and burnout among nursing staff in the special nursing home for the elderly.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to verify the relationship between the establishment of individual unit-care and the stress of staff in nursing homes for the elderly, and to confirm whether the stress of care staff can be reduced by unit-care training. Therefore, in the “Unit-care Leader Training”, the stress status of each care staff was analyzed by comparing the burnout scores of the facilities certified as unit-care training facilities and the facilities that carry out normal unit-care. The survey was conducted from 2017 to 2018, targeting 217 employees working in 7 special nursing homes for the elderly in Hokkaido. The survey items were the implementation status of unit-care, the degree of burnout, and the stress status in long-term caregiving services. The results showed that the depersonalization score（within the burnout score）was significantly higher in the “normal unit-care implementation group” than in the “unit-care training designated group”. However, both groups had shown very low scores in personal sense of accomplishment. We conclude that although training may not help to enhance the personal sense of accomplishment yet training that focuses on enhancing unit caregiving skills can reduce burnout among the caregiving staffs.