"I see myself as part of the team" - family caregivers' contribution to safety in advanced home care.

Background: The use of medical technology and the various contributing and interdepending human factors in home care have implications for patient safety. Although family caregivers are often involved in the provision of advanced home care, there is little research on their contribution to safety. The study aims to explore family caregivers in Home Mechanical Ventilation (HMV) safety experiences and how safety is perceived by them in this context.

[Everything safe? – Risk situations in advanced home care from the point of view of ventilated patients and their relatives].

Background: The number of home mechanically ventilated (HMV) patients has been growing for years. However, little is known about requirements, processes and effects of advanced home care, provided in distance from clinics and doctors. To date, safety related aspects of the above mentioned issues have scarcely been examined.

[Perspectives of family caregivers in home mechanical ventilation: „That I’ll be taken seriously and that I not only have to carry the burden“].

Background: In Germany, Home Mechanical Ventilation (HMV) becomes more important, but there is only little knowledge about the situation of family caregivers involved in this form of care. Aim: To gain insights into the situation of family caregivers involved in HMV and to understand and reflect upon their roles and functions. Method: As part of a multi-part qualitative study problem-centered interviews with family caregivers (N = 15) of patients in HMV have been conducted and analysed thematically following principles used in Grounded Theory.

'I need complete trust in nurses' - home mechanical ventilated patients' perceptions of safety.

Background: Although home care has advanced over the last few decades, little research on patient safety has been carried out in this setting. Furthermore, it is unclear how patients perceive their situation and safety. The insiders' views might be especially relevant for technology-dependent individuals, such as users of home mechanical ventilation (HMV).

Educational strategies and challenges in peritoneal dialysis: a qualitative study of renal nurses' experiences.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of the study was to explore renal nurses' experiences, strategies and challenges with regard to the patient education process in peritoneal dialysis.

Background: Patient education in peritoneal dialysis is essential to developing a successful home-based peritoneal dialysis program. In this area research is scarce and there is a particular lack of focus on the perspective of the renal nurse.

A spider in the web: role of the palliative care nurse specialist in Uganda--an ethnographic field study.

Background: Palliative care is not a priority in developing countries. Hospice Africa Uganda (HAU), where nurses complete a course in clinical palliative care, is considered a model for other African countries.

Aim: To explore the role of the palliative care nurse specialist (PCNS) in Uganda.

[Instrument to assess nursing care delivery stystems "IzEP". Making nursing care systematically visible for practice, management and science].

Network activities and publications show a rising interest in nursing care delivery systems like primary nursing. There are aspects in quality and outcomes attributed to primary nursing to answer the changes in health care. To assign outcomes in nursing to different kinds of nursing care delivery systems and for systematic developing of primary nursing in a unit one needs a special assessment instrument.