Sammanfattning
Background: Both recruitment and retention of health professionals
are a major problem in nursing homes. Implementation of “Joy
of Life” assumes that the leader of the nursing home is an active
part, encouraging employees to update themselves professionally,
has co-determination and good access to information, and that the
working environment is more focused.
Purpose: Gain knowledge of how the implementation process of
the “Joy of Life” certification affects the staff’s working methods and
attitudes to promote happiness for the elderly residents.
Method: All employees in Trondheim municipality at nursing
homes, community care hospitals and welfare and rehabilitation
centers were sent a questionnaire to their municipal e-mail. The
questionnaire itself consisted of 26 questions, two of which focus
directly on the implementation process that is the focus of this study.
Respondents answered the same questions at two different points
of time, indicating any changes over time.
Result: The findings show two factors of interest; 1) The ability to
apply the “Joy of life” certification process to change work routines
or methods is affected over time so that when the nurses have gone
further in the certification process they find it more useful to use
the implementation to change work methods and routines. 2) The
certification process has an impact on the staff’s attitudes towards
how an employee can work to promote “Joy of Life” for the residents.
Conclusions: The findings indicate that the importance of the certification
process increases over time. Moreover, it appears that that
when working in a nursing home where “Joy of Life” is implemented
and the longer a nursing home has been certified, the more useful
the actual work process seems to be.