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This paper reports on the views of nurses on the barriers and enablers to conducting nursing assessments with older people in residential aged care, six weeks after attending a four day education and training workshop on this topic.<br \/>\nDesign: Descriptive evaluation.<br \/>\nSetting: Data were collected in a range of venues in which the education was delivered.<br \/>\nSubjects: Registered (RNs) and enrolled (ENs) nurses (n= 345) working in residential aged care facilities in Victoria, Australia.<br \/>\nFindings: Fourteen barriers and eight enablers, which affect the capacity of nurses to conduct assessments with older people, were identified. The most common cited barriers included lack of time (78%), residents\u2019 poor state of health (41%) and the absence of equipment (33%). Common enablers were organisational support (38%); staff&nbsp; education and training (29%); having the appropriate equipment (22%); positive staff attitudes (17%) and the resident\u2019s condition and cooperation (16%).<br \/>\nConclusion: Nursing assessments are vital to the delivery of quality and evidence based aged care. The issues identified provide aged care services and managers with a basis for ensuring that nurses have the necessary preparation, training and ongoing support to perform the appropriate and required assessments to provide the best possible care.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Bauer<\/li>\n<li>Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Winbolt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>assessment, nurses, nursing home, older people<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Perceived barriers and enablers to conducting nursing assessments in residential aged care facilities in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[1258,3894,4328,4066],"class_list":["post-7309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-assessment","tag-nurses","tag-nursing-home","tag-older-people","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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