Heat of the night

Wheatley, Frances

doi:10.7748/ns2004.08.18.47.24.c3661

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“…Care staff provide overnight care while RNs rarely provide bedside care. Unlike night RNs caring for older people in the UK 15 and the USA, 29 Swedish RNs have a telephone consultation function. Every area of the municipal social care of older people is covered by day/evening duty RNs who are responsible for different caring units.…”

Section: Swedish Municipal Care For Older Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

Municipal Night Nurses’ Experience of the Meaning of Caring

2009

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The aim of this study was to elucidate municipal night registered nurses' (RNs) experiences of the meaning of caring in nursing. The research context involved all night duty RNs working in municipal care of older people in a medium-sized municipality located in central Sweden. The meaning of caring in nursing was experienced as: caring for by advocacy, superior responsibility in caring, and consultative nursing service. The municipal night RNs' experience of caring is interpreted as meanings in paradoxes: 'being close at distance', the condition of 'being responsible with insignificant control', and 'being interdependently independent'. The RNs' experience of the meaning of caring involves focusing on the care recipient by advocating their perspectives. The meaning of caring in this context is an endeavour to grasp an overall caring responsibility by responding to vocational and personal demands regarding the issue of being a RN, in guaranteeing ethical, qualitative and competent care for older people.

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Section: Swedish Municipal Care For Older Peoplementioning

confidence: 99%

Municipal Night Nurses’ Experience of the Meaning of Caring

2009

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“…Swedish community night RNs have a ‘remote’ telephone consulting function (Gustafsson et al. 2008, 2009), which is not the case for their RN colleagues in hospital healthcare, or for those in the UK (Wheatly 2004) and USA (Tucker & Smith 1987) .…”

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“…Swedish community RNs provide nursing for older recipients that is essentially equivalent to that provided by gerontological nurses (Caffrey 2005a, Eliopoulos 2005), and it comprises care in a variety of special forms of housing and home care (Wheatly 2004, Caffrey 2005a, Eliopoulos 2005, Juthberg 2008).…”

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Supportive leadership in Swedish community night nursing

Gustafsson

Fagerberg

Asp

2010

Journal of Nursing Management

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“…Enrolled/assistant nurses and nurses’ aids (care staff) provide bedside care; nurses do not usually provide bedside nursing (3), they work mostly alone, mainly with a consultant, medical advisory and supervisory function (4). Compared with their colleagues in the UK (5) and USA (6) Swedish nurses have a ‘remote’ telephone consulting function.…”

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“…The Swedish municipal nurses mainly care for older care recipients. The care of older people by RNs’– gerontological nursing (7, 8) comprise of care in special forms of housing, nursing homes, other community‐based settings or home care (3, 5, 7, 8). Nurses’ caring of older people is characterised by long‐term (9) and palliative care (10) around the clock.…”

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Dependency in autonomous caring – night nurses’ working conditions for caring in nursing

Gustafsson¹,

Fagerberg²,

Asp³

2010

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Few research studies have focused on nurses' working conditions for caring provided at night, and these studies have mainly described nurses' work in hospital settings, not in a municipal, social-care context. In Swedish municipal care, nurses have responsibility for hundreds of older people in need of care. This working condition compromises caring encounters; instead the nurses' caring is mainly mediated through care staff (or relatives). In considering that caring based on caring encounters is fundamental to ethical nursing practice questions leads to the aim: to explore Swedish municipal night nurses' experiences of their working conditions for caring in nursing. All municipal night-duty nurses (n = 7) in a medium-sized community in Sweden participated in interviews, while six of them also wrote diaries. Thematic content analysis has been used in analysing the data. The findings revealed that the nurses experienced their working conditions for caring in nursing in the themes of Dependency in the Organisation and Other Staff, Vocational Responsibility, Deficiency in Conditions for Caring and Autonomous Caring. The findings illustrate privileged, as well as, poor working conditions for caring in nursing. The nurses' role as consultants emerge as their main function. The consultant function implies that nurses do not participate in ordinary bed-side caring, which makes it easier for them to find time for caring in situations that arise when nurses' skills, expertise and authority are called upon. Conversely the consultancy function entails short-term solution of complex caring problems, which can signify deficient caring due to prevailing working conditions. The findings also point to nurses' possible problems in fulfilling their own and vocational demands for ethics in the practice of caring in nursing related to existing working conditions.

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Heat of the night

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Municipal Night Nurses’ Experience of the Meaning of Caring

Municipal Night Nurses’ Experience of the Meaning of Caring

Supportive leadership in Swedish community night nursing

Dependency in autonomous caring – night nurses’ working conditions for caring in nursing

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