Florence Nightingale, recognized as the founder of professional nursing, is credited as an early voice acknowledging nursing as an inherently artistic endeavor. Many nursing leaders have subsequently described the practice of nursing also as an intimate endeavor in which nurses care for patients at the most private and stressful times of life. Nowhere is this more important than in the area of ...

Study of a quantitative approach that aimed to implement the Visiting Nurse ICU adult and check and meet the main needs for information and verbalized by host families. After approval of the CEP of the HU-USP was asked if the family would like to receive some information on the part of nursing. All family members wanted to receive information from nurses in three visits with each family. The th...

OBJECTIVE To learn the opinion of health professionals regarding the presence of family during pediatric emergency care. METHODS Cross-sectional study, performed with 46 health professionals, members of the medical and nursing team of a pediatric emergency service. The data were collected via the application of a questionnaire composed by variables related to the opinion of professionals abou...

An increasing proportion of dying is occurring in America's nursing homes (NH). Family members are involved in (and affected by) medical decision-making on behalf of NH residents approaching the end of life, especially when the resident is cognitively impaired. This article proposes an empirically derived conceptual model of the key factors NH family surrogate decision-makers consider when esta...

Although predictors of nursing home placement have attracted a good deal of attention in gerontological research, the type and amount of family assistance offered to caregivers prior to institutionalization has not been extensively examined. This study analyzed the impact of family help on the timing of placement among cognitively impaired care recipients. Using longitudinal data from the Adult...

BACKGROUND End of life decisions for people with advanced dementia are reported as often being difficult for families as they attempt to make appropriate and justified decisions. AIM To explore the experiences of advance care planning amongst family caregivers of people with advanced dementia. DESIGN Qualitative research including a series of single cases (close family relatives). METHODS...

1 Physician. Professional MSc in Family Health, UNINOVAFAPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. 2 Dentist, Doctor. Professional MSc in Family Health, UNINOVAFAPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. 3 Nutritionist, Doctor. Professional MSc in Family Health, UNINOVAFAPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. 4 Nurse, Doctor. Postgraduate Program in Nursing. Federal University of Piauí, UFPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. 5 Physician,...

Introduction: How does the care for older people maintain of good quality, according to their needs, while still fundable? Looking at the most vulnerable group of older people with dementia, for which family and friends represent past, present and future, adjustments need to be made. Family, nurses and organization all acknowledge that nursing home care will benefit when these three parties uni...