Nurses' views of forensic care in emergency departments and their attitudes, and involvement of family members

Abstract

These results can inspire clinical forensic care interventions in emergency departments. Educational efforts for nurses and policies for all groups of victims of violence are needed. Emergency departments may need to rethink how family members are included in their organisation.

Nurses’ attitudes toward family importance in heart failure care

“…Overall, RNs working with patients with HF were supportive of families' involvement, which is consistent with previous research among RNs in other nursing settings [14,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]. However, significant differences in attitudes were found for age, type and level of education, competence, personal and professional experience, and workplace.…”

“…RNs' attitudes toward the importance of families' involvement have previously been studied in various context-specific settings and populations such as paediatric care in Italy and Canada [21,22], surgical and psychiatric care in Iceland [23,24], critical and emergency care in Scotland, Iceland, Saudi Arabia and Sweden [25,26,27], general nursing care in Sweden and USA [14,28], nursing students in Sweden [29] and lastly cardiovascular care in various Scandinavian countries and Belgium [30]. These studies show overall supportive attitudes toward the importance of families' involvement in nursing care with differences for demographic variables such as age, gender, length of experience and educational level.…”

Psychometric testing of the revised “Families’ Importance in Nursing Care—Nurses’ Attitudes instrument”

“…Nurses are uniquely positioned to promote family involvement in patient care, however, the attitudes and beliefs they hold may help or hinder this practice (Mackie, Mitchell, & Marshall, ). Given the importance of this issue, the attitudes nurse's hold towards family involvement in nursing care has been examined in several European studies using the “Families’ Importance in Nursing Care—Nurses’ Attitudes” (FINC—NA) instrument (Benzein, Johansson, Arestedt, Berg, & Saveman, ; Blondal et al., ; Rahmqvist Linnarsson, Benzein, & Årestedt, ). While self‐report instruments, such as the FINC—NA are useful for observing phenomenon like beliefs, attitudes and perceptions of nurses towards family collaborating and partnering in patient care (Boynton, ), it is imperative that the instruments used are robust, have demonstrated reliability and validity that is able to be replicated and confirmed in independent samples.…”

Development of a practice framework for improving nurses’ responses to intimate partner violence

“…It is important that education and training meets the needs of nurses from different clinical environments, such as emergency contexts (Rahmqvist Linnarsson et al . ) and reproductive and mental health (Ozcan et al . ).…”