BACKGROUND In dementia care, a large number of treatment decisions are made by family carers on behalf of their family member who lacks decisional capacity; advance care planning can support such carers in the decision-making of care goals. However, given the relative importance of advance care planning in dementia care, the prevalence of advance care planning in dementia care is poor. AIM To...

Family caregivers enable patients to be cared for and die at home whereas nurses aim support the family of these patients. Information on how this is provided documented in nursing files largely lacking. To gain insight nurses' reports supportive care caregivers. We studied 59 adult who had received hospice Netherlands from 4 organisations between August 2017 October 2018. was retrieved based a...

In Primary Health Care (PHC) there is empirical planning regarding the nursing staff, which causes a distortion between personnel distribution and the real needs of the health units. The objective was to identify the nursing interventions at the PHC that support personnel staffing. The following sources were: literature review of databases from 1999-2009; field observation at a Family Health Un...

This descriptive, exploratory, retrospective survey, carried out at a family planning service, aimed to identify nursing phenomena during nursing visits according to the ICNP, Beta version 2. Data were collected based on 52 records of nursing visits, realized from October 2001 to December 2002. To conduct the cross-mapping process, all identified nursing phenomena were joined, organized and com...

Background: Parents face several issues related to health and well-being in their everyday lives, which challenge their psychosocial resources. However, the topic of resource-enhancing family nursing at families’ homes remains little studied. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe the cooperative relationship between parents and a family nurse and to evaluate the benefits of resource-enhanci...

Some nurses in Portugal still have no training on family nursing and their professional practice is only based on their personal experience as a member of a family. The aim of this study is to describe the development of an educational tool, a board game called "Family Nursing Game", which was developed, tested and validated for nurses learning the content of family nursing within a hospital co...