Fundamental nursing care focusing on older people's needs and continuity of long-term care: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Knowledge about long-term care services ability, regardless of if the service is home-based or facility-based, to provide an optimal and comprehensive fundamental nursing care (understood as focusing on physical, relational and psychosocial needs) consistently over time is sparse. Research into nursing indicates the presence of a discontinuous and fragmented healthcare service, and that fundamental nursing care such as mobilisation, nutrition and hygiene among older people (65 years and above) seems to be, regardless of reasons, systematically rationed by nursing staff. Thus, our scoping review aims to explore the published scientific literature on fundamental nursing care and continuity of care targeting older people's needs while also describing identified nursing in

SUBMITTER: Nordaunet OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10069605 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature