Professional experience and case management as predictors of nursing good practices directed to the primary caregiver

Aims

Identify nursing good practices related to caregivers in three basic health areas of the Valencian Community and analyze the impact of professional experience and the presence of a Nurse Case Manager on nursing good practices.

Method

Cross-sectional descriptive study. An anonymous, self-administered “ad hoc” questionnaire was used with 10 items: 8 individual and 2 institutional good practices. The independent variables were: work experience and the presence of a Nurse Case Manager. An analytical study was carried out using Chi square, Fisher and Mann-Whitney U tests, assuming p < 0.05 as a significant value.

Results

60 participants: 50 women, median age of 36 years and median experience of 4 years. 45 with experience ≥ 2 years and 23 worked in an environment with Nurse Case Manager.

The record of the caregiver was the only individual good practice carried out by more than 56% of the population, with the rest implemented by less than 20%. Pre- or post-pandemic experience did not show significant differences, the presence of Nurse Case Manager only showed differences in knowledge of training workshops and individual good practices were greater among professionals with more experience.

Conclusions

Individual good practices in caring for caregivers have low implementation, with better practices observed among professionals with more experience.