Familiarity: A Concept Analysis on Rural Life

Purpose: To fully conceptualize familiarity, delineating it from other rural concepts and understanding its role in life. Background: Rural nurse researchers identify familiarity as a concept found Familiarity is term used literature, nursing research, theory but lacks comprehensive conceptual understanding. advance science, need updating to support research development. Method: A scoping review of the literature was completed using Joanna Briggs Institute methodology supported by seminal work Arksey O’Malley. Using Walker Avant’s (2019) eight-step method, findings informed this analysis. Findings: The analysis revealed three defining attributes, ‘repeated exposure’, ‘knowledge’, ‘deep understanding’. Antecedents which proceed include: (i) varied contexts; (ii) lack anonymity; (iii) novelty. Consequences result are: trust; vulnerability; over-familiarity; (iv) physiologic reactions. Model alternate cases developed are presented along with identified empirical referents. Conclusion: This paper presents supporting life form foundation for future further exploration. also provide components needed when research. Understanding necessary recognizing how nurses experience influence their personal professional lives. Keywords: review, rural, nursing, theoryDOI: https://doi.org/10.14574/ojrnhc.v23i1.729