Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care Program: Final Evaluation Report
About This Report
Table of contents
- Key Messages
- Executive Summary
- About This Report
1 - Introduction- 2 - Evidence, Changes in Practice and the EBPRAC Program
- 3 - Program Delivery/Implementation
- 4 - Program Impact
- 5 - Capacity Building
- 6 - Generalisability
- 7 - Sustainability
- 8 - Dissemination
- 9 - Appropriateness
- 10 - Cost Implications for Government and Aged Care Providers
- 11 - Perceptions of High-Level Stakeholders
- 12 - Discussion and Conclusions
- 13 - Recommendations
- References
- Appendices 1 to 6
- Appendices 7 to 12
- Appendices 13 to 17
Acronyms
Acronyms have been kept to a minimum:DoHA Department of Health and Ageing
EBPRAC Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care
Terminology
The terms used to refer to nursing staff are registered nurses (also known as Registered Nurses Division 1) and enrolled nurses (also known as Registered Nurses Division 2), referred to collectively as nursing staff.The term ‘personal carer’ is used to refer to those staff providing personal care in residential aged care facilities, also known as assistants in nursing or personal care assistants.
The term ‘facilities’ is used to refer to residential aged care facilities.
Project details
Details of each EBPRAC project are included in appendices to this report (Appendix 1 – Appendix 13). The aim of these appendices is not to summarise every aspect of each project but to provide enough detail to inform this report and highlight interesting aspects of each project.Attribution of quotes
Any quotes in this report that arise due to work undertaken as part of the EBPRAC program (interviews, project progress reports, project final reports) are indented, italicised and written in blue colour:- Quotes from interviews are attributed to either someone working in a facility (F) or project team (P).
- Each project produced four six-monthly progress reports. Quotes taken from these reports are designated by the relevant time period – T1, T2, T3 or T4.
- Quotes taken from project final reports are referenced to the relevant report.
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