Relationships: The Heart of the Matter in Family Nursing

Living with schizophrenia: Health‐related quality of life among primary family caregivers

“…• Findings indicated that primary family caregivers who were parents, older, less educated, and had a lower monthly household income, increased affiliate stigma and decreased quality of family-centred care were unsatisfied with their health-related quality of life. the care of relatives with special health needs (Bell, 2011;Coyne, O'Neill, Murphy, Costello, & O'Shea, 2011;Wright & Leahey, 2013).…”

“…Family‐centred care (FCC) is a holistic care modality whereby nurses work collaboratively with families to meet the concerns of individual patients and the family as a unit (McNeil, ; Wong, ). The core tenets of FCC involve the respect and support of the natural caregiving role of families, recognition of family strengths and resources, establishment of collaborative partnerships with families, and provision of timely and appropriate information exchanges in the care of relatives with special health needs (Bell, ; Coyne, O'Neill, Murphy, Costello, & O'Shea, ; Wright & Leahey, ). In a broader sense, FCC is an integral approach to ensure that care is planned and delivered around the family that is valued as the heart or the recipient of nursing care (Coyne et al., ; Foster, Whitehead, & Maybee, ).…”

Nursing Strategies for Engaging Families of Older Immigrants Hospitalized for End-of-Life Care

“…Despite patient- and family-centered care long being supported by local standards, policies, and guidelines and more recently by the World Health Organization (19), there is an acknowledged “lack of attention to identifying the processes associated with interventions nurses are offering patients and their families” (14, p37,20,21). In the case of processes associated with interventions nurses are offering older NESB patients and their families, there is an even greater lack of attention and systematic inquiry (10,22).…”

The invisibility of the patient’s family in nursing documentation: An integrative review

“…[1,2] The focus of family nursing is on both the patient's and the family members' concerns in various health/illness situations. [2,3] It is also important to understand that family nursing includes the entirety of a person's lifespan, thus applying to patients from child care to elderly care in all health care settings. [3] The important goal in all its phases is to promote the wellbeing of the whole family.…”

“…This was a way to have emotional and informational support. [8] Family members' participation in the patient's life can be crucial in the time ahead, [2,7,29] as they are the ones who primarily take care of the patients at home after discharge; hence, they need guidance and support from competent professionals. [11,28,29] When patients and their family members live their lives outside of hospitals, but using health care services, the continuity of high-quality treatment can be ascertained by means of accurate documentation.…”