Furthermore, the nurses conceived caring as acting as an intermediary and working in a team.
(B6) The nurses conceived caring as maintaining and strengthening the patient's sense of dignity and being a person.
(A4) In the descriptive category caring as nursing interventions, the nurses conceived caring to be vigilant patient surveillance resulting in care activities that lead to either relief or improvement of symptoms and enhanced well-being.
(A5) In the descriptive category caring as safeguarding the patient's best interests, the nurses conceived caring as carefully guiding the patient through teamwork with other allied healthcare professionals.
In the descriptive category caring as person-centredness, the nurses conceived caring as creating a genuine patient-nurse encounter in which the nurses use the holistic perspective as a point of departure.
The results show that nurses conceived caring as undertaking nursing interventions, hence caring aimed at improving the patient's symptoms, enhancing their well-being, promoting health and meeting the patient's need for essential care and information while at the same time consistently putting the patient's interests first.
Being emphatic, compassionate and having knowledge of human nature were also conceived as caring.
1. What are registered care home nurses' educational priorities regarding stroke care? 2. What are senior care home assistants' educational priorities regarding stroke care? 3. How do care home nurses conceive stroke care will be delivered in 2010?
This resulted in the National Palliative Care plan which was enacted in 2001 [ 31] and conceived to care for all patients in need of palliative care within the public sector.
Theoretical debates on access to care conceive of the concept as an interaction between users, systems, and services (60– 6110110).
