title: Comfort Care Rounds: a staff capacity-building initiative in long-term care homes.
abstract: This article reports a pilot evaluation of Comfort Care Rounds (CCRs)--a strategy for addressing long-term care home staff's palliative and end-of-life care educational and support needs. Using a qualitative descriptive design, semistructured individual and focus group interviews were conducted to understand staff members' perspectives and feedback on the implementation and application of CCRs. Study participants identified that effective advertising, interest, and assigning staff to attend CCRs facilitated their participation. The key barriers to their attendance included difficulty in balancing heavy workloads and scheduling logistics. Interprofessional team member representation was sought but was not consistent. Study participants recognized the benefits of attending; however, they provided feedback on how the scheduling, content, and focus could be improved. Overall, study participants found CCRs to be beneficial to their palliative and end-of-life care knowledge, practice, and confidence. However, they identified barriers and recommendations, which warrant ongoing evaluation.
authors: Abigail
authors: A
authors: Wickson-Griffiths
authors: Sharon
authors: S
authors: Kaasalainen
authors: Kevin
authors: K
authors: Brazil
authors: Carrie
authors: C
authors: McAiney
authors: Diane
authors: D
authors: Crawshaw
authors: Mickey
authors: M
authors: Turner
authors: Mary Lou
authors: ML
authors: Kelley
mesh_terms: D008134:Long-Term Care; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling