AI Article Synopsis
- The study aims to understand how registered nurses lead care for older adults in community home care settings, focusing on their perspectives and experiences.
- It employs a reflective lifeworld hermeneutic approach, analyzing data from interviews with nine RNs to uncover themes related to leadership, responsibility, and patient autonomy.
- The findings highlight the ethical challenges RNs face in balancing care responsibilities while maintaining a patient-centered approach, emphasizing the need for supportive leadership conditions in policy-making.*
Article Abstract
Aim: To explain and understand leading care close to older persons in community home care from the perspective of registered nurses (RNs).
Background: Leading care close to older persons in home care is an overlooked and not well-described phenomenon. In home care, specific demands are placed on the registered nurse, as responsible for leading care guided by the older person's expectations and desires.
Design: A reflective lifeworld hermeneutic approach grounded in the philosophy of phenomenology and hermeneutics. The study followed the COREQ checklist.
Methods: Individual interviews were conducted with nine RNs working in community home care in a community in western Sweden. The data were analysed with a lifeworld hermeneutic approach.
Results: The findings present four partially interpreted themes: leading with respect in a shared space, leadership that involves existential questions of life, balancing responsibility enables preservation of autonomy and challenges in maintaining a patient perspective. The partially interpreted themes conclude in a main interpretation: The patient perspective as an anchor when balancing responsibility for another person in an existential vulnerability of life.
Conclusion: Leading care means being both close to the patient and at a distance when caring is performed through the hands of others. Ethical demands are placed on RNs as they encounter the vulnerability of the older person.
Relevance To Clinical Practice: The findings can contribute to a greater understanding of the meaning of RNs as leaders and may have an impact for decision makers and policies to create conditions for leadership that contributes to dignified care for older persons in community home care.
Patient Of Public Contribution: Registered nurses working in community home care participated in data collection.
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