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Symposium

Health Sciences

The Quality of Nursing Care Provided to Patients Living With Dementia: From Communication- to Function-Focused Care

Friday, November 10, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Location: Room 113

Although shortages in nursing abound across all levels of care, it is important that the little time nurses have to engage with patients living with dementia while hospitalized be optimal. The Function Focused Care for Acute Care intervention helps nurses interact with patients living with dementia in a way that engages them in physical activity during all care interactions. This includes such things as walking a patient to the bathroom instead of using a commode chair or bedpan, role modeling for patients and having them wash their face and upper body, walking patients in the hallway when agitated, or doing hand over hand feeding and bathing if the patient is totally dependent. Function focused care provides staff with ways in which to interact with patients living with dementia to be more positive and encouraging with regard to activity and engagement versus neutral or negative. Positive interactions are beneficial in that they encourage participation and engagement in care, neutral interactions are brief and indifferent and provide no encouragement, and negative interactions restrict patients often due to inappropriate safety concerns or for the convenience of the health care team. This symposium will provide an overview of the way in which nurses provide function focused care to patients living with dementia when hospitalized, the quality of care interactions provided and the interventions used in our Function Focused Care work that have helped to improve the percentage of time function focused is provided and the quality of care interactions.

Learning Objectives:

  • After attending this session, participants will be able to describe function focused care and how it can help patients living with dementia who are hospitalized.
  • After attending this session participants will be able to describe the quality of care interactions nurses provide to patients living with dementia when hospitalized and the impact of patient engagement in this interaction.
  • After attending this session participants will be able to describe what nursing staff need to be able to provide function focused care for patients living with dementia when hospitalized.

Presentations:

  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Performance of Function-Focused Care by Nursing Staff

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Elizabeth Galik, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, FGSA – University of Maryland School of Nursing

  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    Quality of Care Interactions in Acute Care

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Rachel McPherson, PhD – University of Maryland

  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    What Do Nurses Need to Implement Function-Focused Care in the Hospital?

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Marie P. Boltz, PhD, FGSA, FAAN (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University

  • 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
    The Association Between Resident Engagement and Quality of Care Interaction Among Acute Care Patients With Dementia

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Rachel McPherson, PhD – University of Maryland