Familiarity in Rural Life: Protocol for a Scoping Review and Concept Analysis.

Background: Familiarity is a concept often used in literature but is not well defined or understood. As a key concept in rural nursing theory, the conceptual understanding of familiarity is currently incomplete. The findings from this scoping review will inform a concept analysis using Walker and Avant's method and to identify and define the missing key components of familiarity.

Early Career Nurses' Experiences of Providing Family Nursing Care: Perceived Benefits and Challenges.

Faculty at Minnesota State University, Mankato (USA) developed a family-focused baccalaureate curriculum to address gaps between evidence and practice with families that have been linked to undergraduate nursing education. The purpose of this study was to understand the perceptions of new graduate nurses in providing family-focused nursing care in practice settings. A descriptive design focused on narrative data was used to identify the nurses' perceived benefits and challenges of caring for families in their current nursing practice.

Concept analysis: lack of anonymity.

Aim: To re-examine and expand understanding of the concept 'lack of anonymity' as a component of rural nursing theory.

Background: Early healthcare literature reports lack of anonymity as part of social and working environments, particularly rural nursing. Rural nursing theory included the first published concept analysis on lack of anonymity but lacked empirical referents.