Cultural Awareness in Home Care Nurses

Caring Relationships in Home-Based Nursing Care - Registered Nurses’ Experiences

The caring relationship between the nurse and the person in need of nursing care has been described as a key concept in nursing and could facilitate health and healing by involving the person's genuine needs. The aim of this study was to explore registered nurses' experiences of their relationships with persons in need of home-based nursing care. Individual interviews with nurses (n=13 register...

[The performance of family health nurses in home care].

This study aimed at identifying the performance of Family Health Strategy (FHS) nurses in home care. It consists of an exploratory descriptive study using a qualitative approach. Six FHS nurses from a health district of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, were interviewed. Data were submitted to thematic content analysis, revealing three categories: home visit (HV) in the FHS, assessment o...

Encounters in Home-Based Nursing Care - Registered Nurses’ Experiences

The encounter between registered nurses and persons in need of healthcare has been described as fundamental in nursing care. This encounter can take place face-to-face in physical meetings and through meetings via distance-spanning technology. A strong view expressed in the literature is that the face-to-face encounter is important and cannot entirely be replaced by remote encounters. The encou...

Update about the International Home Care Nurses Organization--a functional home care nurse-focused "meeting place".

Awareness-Based Scheduling in a Home Care Clinical Information System

In home care, workers from different disciplines treat patients in their homes. However, workers who treat a shared patient are mobile and rarely see each other face-to-face, so it is difficult for them to maintain awareness of others' activities. In this paper, we discuss one aspect of these information limitations by considering how limited awareness of others' schedules influences work patte...