TY - JOUR AU - Schoultz, Mariyana AU - McGrogan, Claire AU - Beattie, Michelle AU - Macaden, Leah AU - Carolan, Clare AU - Polson, Rob AU - Dickens, Geoffrey PY - 2022 DA - April TI - Psychological first aid for workers in care and nursing homes: Systematic review JO - BMC Nursing VL - 21 DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-00866-6 AB - Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has produced unprecedented challenges across all aspects of health and social care sectors globally. Nurses and healthcare workers in care homes have been particularly impacted due to rapid and dramatic changes to their job roles, workloads, and working environments, and residents’ multimorbidity. Developed by the World Health Organisation, Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a brief training course delivering social, emotional, supportive, and pragmatic support that can reduce the initial distress after disaster and foster future adaptive functioning. PB - Springer Nature UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/ea34259f-0c31-4f91-ac14-0e047299b60c KW - Care homes KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19) ER