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Health Care Professionals' Perspectives of the Experiences of Family Caregivers During In-Patient Cancer Care
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- Ekstedt, Mirjam (author)
- Karolinska Institutet,KTH,Systemsäkerhet och organisation,Oslo University Hospital, Norway;KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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- Stenberg, Una (author)
- Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Olsson, Mariann (author)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Ruland, Cornelia M. (author)
- Oslo University Hospital, Norway;University of Oslo, Norway
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- 2014-11-10
- 2014
- English.
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In: Journal of Family Nursing. - : SAGE Publications. - 1074-8407 .- 1552-549X. ; 20:4, s. 462-486
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Abstract
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- Being a family member of a patient who is being treated in an acute care setting for cancer often involves a number of challenges. Our study describes Norwegian cancer care health professionals' perceptions of family members who served as family caregivers (FCs) and their need for support during the in-hospital cancer treatment of their ill family member. Focus group discussions were conducted with a multidisciplinary team of 24 experienced social workers, physicians, and nurses who were closely involved in the patients' in-hospital cancer treatment and care. Drawing on qualitative hermeneutic analysis, four main themes describe health professionals' perceptions of FCs during the patient's in-hospital cancer care: an asset and additional burden, infinitely strong and struggling with helplessness, being an outsider in the center of care, and being in different temporalities. We conclude that it is a challenge for health care professionals to support the family and create room for FC's needs in acute cancer care. System changes are needed in health care, so that the patient/FC dyad is viewed as a unit of care in a dual process of caregiving, which would enable FCs to be given space and inclusion in care, with their own needs simultaneously considered alongside those of the patient.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- family-focused care
- health care professional's perceptions of family
- family caregivers
- cancer
- in-patient cancer care
- Norway
- Omvårdnad
- Nursing
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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