What is it about?
This papes shows how the relationship between nurses and patients in community care enhances the patient's health, not only with regard to illness, physical condition and treatment, but also physical, emotional and social well being.
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Why is it important?
Contemporary community care organizations seem to devalue nursing activities that are not physical or measurable tasks. Demonstrating the health-enhancing value of the nurse-patient relationship in community care may contribute to shifting the focus from largely technical tasks to include the development of nurse-patient relationships.
Perspectives
I hope this article makes the reader think about contributions of nursing practice that can not easily be measured. In community care settings there is scarce time and economic resources and the human value of the nurse-patient relationship may be underestimated. Our article may help the reader recognizing the health enhancing potential of the nurse-patient relationship.
Maria Strandås
Universitetet i Nordland
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This page is a summary of: The nurse-patient relationship as a story of health enhancement in community care: A meta-ethnography, Journal of Advanced Nursing, August 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jan.13389.
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