Summary :
Introduction: Most nursing home habitants experience difficulties engaging in meaningful activities, which has a major impact on their quality of life. Identifying and understanding occupational problems is essential to enable nursing assistants to offer relevant engagement opportunities to each habitant. The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), a standardized occupational therapy tool, seems particularly relevant for this purpose. The aim of this research is to explore how the use of the COPM affects interprofessional collaboration between occupational therapists and nursing assistants in order to support habitant’s occupational engagement process.
Methodology: Four semi-directive interviews were conducted with two occupational therapists working in nursing home and using the COPM, and two nursing assistants working with them. Bardin’s content analysis was used to analyze the data.
Results: Results highlighted four themes : 1- Nursing assistants can, if they wish, use the results of the COPM to facilitate habitant’s life projects; 2- The use of the COPM reinforces the holistic, person-centred philosophy of the care teams; 3- Collaboration between occupational therapists and nursing assistants is strengthened by effective communication; 4- The COPM : a tool that values each habitant.
Discussion: The use of COPM by occupational therapists enables nursing assistants with whom they collaborate to propose relevant engagement opportunities to each nursing home habitant. Results show that the transmission of information between professionals plays a key role in the construction of meaningful engagement opportunities for each habitant.
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Article rédigé par :
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Julie Pennec
Ergothérapeute DE
Alumni de l’IFPEK, Rennes
jpennec21@gmail.com
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Marielle André
Ergothérapeute DE, PhD
Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes,
Living Lab Vieillissement et vulnérabilités (service de gériatrie), Rennes, France
Centre de recherche sur le Vieillissement, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
marielle.andre@univ-rennes2.fr