Helenʼs Family

Irvine talks about celebrating life as death approaches. She occasionally drive a road that takes her by where a patient of mine once lived. As she round the bend and come upon a small white house, she thinks of a family and a special kind of caregiving she found inside that place. While she was working as a home health nurse, family members were often partners in caring for her patients. Families coped with the particular health challenges they faced, in their own ways, as best they could, as best they knew how. Some situations were not so difficult for them, perhaps a course of iv antibiotic therapy for osteomyelitis, or a posthospital assessment of medication compliance and mobility issues; others were more daunting, such as the last stages of an incurable disease..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:117

Enthalten in:

American journal of nursing - 117(2017), 2, Seite 72

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Irvine, Cyndy [VerfasserIn]

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BKL:

44.63

44.00

Themen:

Caregivers
Death & dying
Life
Nostalgia
Quality of care

doi:

10.1097/01.NAJ.0000512307.46456.14

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1990489745