Home care nurses facilitating planned home deaths. A focused ethnography.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home care nurses provide complex palliative care for patients who want to die in their own homes. This study aimed to explore home care nurses' facilitation of planned home death to better understand nursing practices.

Methods

Data were collected between March 2019 and March 2020 using participant observations and semi-structured interviews. In addition, the number of planned home deaths was recorded. The analysis was guided by Roper and Shapira`s framework on focused ethnography.

Results

Twenty home care nurses (three men) in eight home care areas in two Norwegian municipalities met the inclusion criteria. Eight home deaths were registered, seven participatory observations were performed, and 20 semi-structured interviews were completed. Home care nurses f

SUBMITTER: Sorstrom AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10634003 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature