Kornelia Basinska successfully defended her dissertation on 28 May 2021
Kornelia Basinska's dissertation addresses the development and evaluation of a Swiss nurse-led interprofessional care model for nursing homes (INTERCARE).
Kornelia Basinska`s dissertation is embedded in a national Swiss implementation science study of INTERCARE: “Improving INTERprofessional CARE for better resident outcomes”. It seeks to improve quality of care by applying specific implementation science principles to aid in the development and evaluation of a context-specific nurse-led care model for Swiss nursing homes. It includes a systematic and iterative approach to model development, ensuring that current evidence is reviewed, local model context is assessed and understood, and relevant stakeholders co-develop the model of interest. Once the nurse-led model had been implemented in eleven Swiss nursing homes, the researcher aimed to understand the implementation and its contextual factors based on care workers’ expressed views. The cognizance gained from the evaluation delivers the knowledge of how the nurse-led model works in the real world, and will aid in the understanding of how to use strategies to implement the model into broader clinical practice so that current NH residents receive state-of-the-art care with proven efficacy.
Kornelia Basinska`s dissertation bridges the research-to-practice gap in supporting the development of a contextually adapted, evidence-based nurse-led model corresponding with local resources and needs. By using principles of implementation science, it contributes to the literature and practice by evaluating the implementation of the nurse-led model from the care workers’ perspective to better understand the implementation challenges, including their determinants and solutions.
With her doctorate, Kornelia Basinska obtains her degree of Doctor of Nursing Science (Dr. sc. med.) at the University of Basel.