Nurse-family conflict beyond the walls of Iranian homes who have the mechanical ventilation dependent patient: a qualitative research

Rationale. Home health care (HHC) has been developed more than any other industry in the past decade. Conflict between nurse and family can diminish the aid produced to the home care patients. Objective. This research was guidance to explore the nature of conflicts between the patient's families and nurses in homes of dangerous care patients, in an Iranian context. Methods and results. Using the qualitative comfortable study system and the purposive sampling, 15 participants including 7 nurses (4 males and 3 females) operating in houses and 8 members of family who had a care receiving mechanical ventilation at house, were interviewed during 2013 and 2014. The main sources of conflict were due to nurse expectations, family belief, and personal qualities of nurses. The team guider tried to prevent the conflict by different measures, but in some samples, the conflict arose. Both members of family and nurses accepted the team leader as the judge. At first, he tried to keep the situation stable and gave some notification to the nurse and some descriptions to the members of family. In some samples, that the family could not adapt to the position and efforts to solve the conflict were unsuccessful, the team relation with the family being cut. Conclusion. Home care situation is prone to conflict due to various factors. The mentioned sources of conflict in home trial were changed from the ones of the hospital. Based on these results appropriate interventions suitable for home conditions should be implemented.