Professionalizing Familial Care: Examining Nurses' Unpaid Family Care Work

• Autores: Oona St-Amant, Catherine Ward-Griffin, Judith Belle Brown, Anne Martin-Matthews, Nisha Sutherland, Janice Keefe, Michael S. Kerr
• Localización: Advances in Nursing Science, ISSN 0161-9268, Vol. 37, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 117-131
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An emergent grounded theory was used to examine Professionalizing Familial Care, the processes by which registered nurses enact professional care work within the familial care domain. A sample of registered nurses (n = 32) were interviewed by telephone at multiple time points over a 6- to 12-month period. The findings revealed that the professionalization of care work was often reinforced by societal, familial, and self-expectations. Setting Limits and Making Connections were the dialectical overarching processes shaping the professionalizing of care while 6 interdependent substrategies emerged: assessing, advising, advocating, collaborating, coordinating, and consulting. These findings will help inform refinement of policies and practices for nurses who provide care for an older relative.