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Relationships between patients, informal caregivers and health professionals in care homes

Commentary on: Lindahl B, Lidén E, Lindblad BM. A meta-synthesis describing the relationships between patients, informal caregivers and health professionals in home-care settings. J Clin Nurs2011;20:454–63.

Implications for nursing practice

  • Care delivery in the home creates a unique and potentially challenging set of relational issues for the nurse, client and informal carer.

  • The communication skills, values, attitudes and behaviours of the nurse are influential in determining the dynamic of the nurse-client-informal carer relationship in the home.

Implications for nursing research

  • Further research is needed to examine the views of stakeholders on the factors that influence nurse-client-informal carer relationships in the home-care setting.

  • Further research is needed to examine the success of interventions to promote positive relationships among stakeholders in the home-care setting.

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Additional Titles
Evidence Based Nursing

Key Information

Type of Reference
Jour
Type of Work
Opinion
ISBN/ISSN
13676539
Resource Database
A9h academic search complete - exported 11/7/2016
Publication Year
2012
Issue Number
1
Volume Number
15
Start Page
28-29