Exploring social-based discrimination among nursing home certified nursing assistants

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Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) provide the majority of direct care to nursing home residents in the United States and, therefore, are keys to ensuring optimal health outcomes for this frail older adult population. These diverse direct care workers, however, are often not recognized for their important contributions to older adult care and are subjected to poor working conditions. It is probable that social-based discrimination lies at the core of poor treatment toward CNAs. This review uses perspectives from critical social theory to explore the phenomenon of social-based discrimination toward CNAs that may originate from social order, power, and culture. Understanding manifestations of social-based discrimination in nursing homes is critical to creating solutions for severe disparity problems among perceived lower-class workers and subsequently improving resident care delivery.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Nursing inquiry - 27(2020), 1 vom: 03. Jan., Seite e12315

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Travers, Jasmine L [VerfasserIn]
Teitelman, Anne M [VerfasserIn]
Jenkins, Kevin A [VerfasserIn]
Castle, Nicholas G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Caregivers
Discrimination
Health inequities
Journal Article
Nursing home care
Older adult
Racism
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Residential care
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 08.01.2021

Date Revised 08.01.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/nin.12315

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM300093721