Relationship-Based Care as an Intervention of Caring for Vulnerable Adults in Home Care

Abstract

Relationship-Based Care (RBC) was the intervention used to instruct nursing staff (N = 34) in Rotherham, England how to use social and technical dimensions of their work environment and concepts of caring to care for self and for patients at risk for readmission to the hospital. Pre-post RBC implementation survey results and regression equations were used to understand the relationship between the work environment and caring for self and others. Results revealed an improved work environment and caring from pre- to post-RBC. The work environment predicted 14.4% of nursing staff self-care (alpha .15) and 11.4% of caring competence (alpha .05).