Nurses and Vaccine-Refusing Families

Characteristics of Physicians Who Dismiss Families for Refusing Vaccines.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physicians dismissing families who refuse vaccines from their practices is controversial. We assessed the following among pediatricians (Peds) and family physicians (FPs): (1) reported prevalence of parental refusal of 1 or more vaccines in the infant series; (2) physician response to refusal; and (3) the association between often/always dismissing families and provide...

Comparing the Perceptions of Nurses and Families about the Expectations of Intensive Care Unit Patients’ Families

Background: Properly identifying the expectations of family members of patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is a necessity for nurses. Objective: The present study aimed to determine and compare the expectations of ICU patients’ families according to the perceptions of ICU nurses and family members. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, 147 families of ICU patients and 13...

Determining the Professional Tasks of Family Nurses through the Viewpoints of Nurses, Families, Physicians, and Managers

Introduction: Our country needs expert nurses who are professional in family nursing. As a result, it is required to determine their professional duties as a basis for future planning for new disciplines and new majors such as family nursing. This study is an endeavor to determine a portion of professional tasks of family nurses via the viewpoints of physicians (family physicians and specialist...

[Attitudes of nurses towards families: validation of the scale Families' Importance in Nursing Care--Nurses Attitudes].

The attitudes of nurses towards families determine the care process. With this study, we aimed to obtain an instrument that would allow us to learn about this variable. Hence, our purpose was to perform the cross-cultural adaptation and evaluate the psychometric features of the Portuguese version of the instrument Families' Importance in Nursing Care - Nurses Attitudes (FINC-NA), which aims to ...

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