The health systems of former Soviet Union countries are undergoing reform away from the highly centralised, resource-intensive, specialised and hierarchical Soviet system, towards a more generalist, efficient health service with greater focus on primary health care. Family Health Nursing is a new model designed by WHO Europe in which skilled generalist community nurses deliver primary health ca...

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 th...

Inter-professional collaboration between family doctors and nurses is a decisive element of the quality in community-based palliative care. Previous research shows that professional interactions between nurses and family doctors are embedded in formal structures and social relationships, and can be challenging in terms of professional behaviour and self-concept. While research has focussed on i...

AIMS To investigate the mediating effect of work-to-family conflict on the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention among licensed nurses in long-term care settings. BACKGROUND The considerable research on turnover in long-term care has primarily focused on the impact of job satisfaction on turnover intention. Given the well-documented high turnover rate in nursing home st...

BACKGROUND Home visiting by public health nurses and family visitors is promoted as an important intervention for enhancing parent and child development. Mothers of children at-risk for developmental delays tend to be the most difficult to access and engage, and commonly drop out of home visiting programmes prematurely. PURPOSE This paper reports a study developing a theory that describes the...

The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study was to explore the beliefs and experiences of RNs about family presence (FP) during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Ten RNs with a minimum of 4 years of clinical experience working in diverse acute care units provided data for the study. Data were analyzed using the constant comparative method. Four themes emerged: (a) the conditions under which ...

Chronic illness is currently the outstanding health issue in the United States. It creates increased family stress, requires constant adaptation by the family members and poses a challenge to nurses to better understand and meet the needs of the family as well as the individual. This paper presents a psychosocial typology of chronic illness and discusses the importance of time phasing of the ch...