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List of Tables and Charts
Table 1.1: Estimated older population by gender and age group in Ireland,
2007, 2008 and 2009 (CSO, 2009) ............................................................................ 14
Table 2.1: Collopy’s (1988) six polarities of autonomy ............................................ 38
Table 2.2: List of attributes of autonomy for older people in residential care ........... 69
Table 2.3: Antecedents of autonomy for older people in residential care as
delineated from the literature ..................................................................................... 72
Table 2.4: Consequences of autonomy for older people in residential care as
delineated from the literature ..................................................................................... 72
Table 3.1 Research quality criteria summarised from Shenton (2002).................... 123
Table 4.2: Observation periods .............................................................................. 141
Table 4.3: Number of interviews conducted ............................................................ 142
Table 4.4: Participants for pilot interviews .............................................................. 144
Table 4.5: Post-pilot modification of interview question. ....................................... 145
Table 4.6: Staff invited to participate in interviews ................................................. 146
Table 4.7: Residents invited to participate in interviews ......................................... 149
Table 4.8: Family members invited to participate in interviews ............................. 151
Table 4.9: Coding guide/start list ............................................................................. 154
Table 4.10: Example of data reduction – assigning codes and coding the data ....... 155
Table 4.11: Example of initial codes, pattern codes, initial and outcome
proposition statements and subsequent themes for the interview and
observation data analysis ......................................................................................... 157
Table 5.1: Grades of staff and numbers employed on the research unit .................. 163
Chart 5.1: Educational qualifications of healthcare assistant staff (National
Standards for Residential Care) ............................................................................... 164
Chart 5.2: Educational qualifications of nursing staff (National Standards for
Residential Care) ................................................................................................... 165
Chart 5.3: Healthcare assistants’ age profile ............................................................ 166
Chart 5.4: Nursing staff age profile ......................................................................... 166
Table 5.2: Dependency of residents on the research unit ........................................ 169
Table 5.3: Shifts in operation on the research site ................................................... 170
Chart5.5: Number of staff on duty during the four month period analysed............. 171
Chart 5.6: Number of nursing staff at morning report ............................................. 172
Chart 5.7: Number of HCAs at morning report ....................................................... 173
Chart 5.8: Proportion of days a clinical nurse manager was on duty....................... 174
Table 5.4: Results from content analysis of philosophy of care .............................. 176
Chart 5.9: Element 1 ................................................................................................ 179
Chart5.10: Element 2 ............................................................................................... 181
Chart5.11: Element 3 ............................................................................................... 182
Chart5.12: Element 4 ............................................................................................... 183
Chart 5.13: Element 5 .............................................................................................. 184
Chart5.14: Element 6 ............................................................................................... 185
Chart5.15: Element 7 ............................................................................................... 187
Table 5.5: Barthel Scores for the residents on day one of the observations ............ 188
Table 5.6: Barthel Scores of the residents on day 2 of the observations ................. 189
Table 5.7: Themes from analysis of observations and interviews ........................... 190
Table 5.8: Participant type and code ........................................................................ 190
Table 5.9: An illustration of the integrated findings across main data sets. ............ 233
Table 6.1: Summary of nursing models examined .................................................. 242
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