Nursing care in the chronic phase of COPD: a call for innovative disciplinary research

Abstract

Nursing care in nurse clinics that focus on the chronic phase of COPD needs to be based on nursing knowledge, evidence based, comprehensive, family-centred, focused on health and the health experience and be situated within the service system. Diversity, creativity and nursing values should prevail when developing nurse clinics for the purpose of creating possibilities to attend to the whole of patients' and their families' needs and experiences.

Home nursing care with the self‐care model improves self‐efficacy of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

“…In the published work, when home visit frequency and duration were evaluated, home visit frequency and duration do not seem to be specifically standard. In a six month period, home visit frequency is defined as one, two, or seven visits, and for one year it is determined as one or two visits for each month (Jónsdóttir, ). In the study, the patients in the intervention group were visited and provided nursing care four times during three months: twice in the first month and once in each of the following two months.…”

Effectiveness of nursing interventions for breathlessness in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…The other SGRQ subscores and total score did not differ between groups; this lack of difference is similar to the findings of a meta‐analysis of studies using the SGRQ to evaluate nurse‐led COPD management with home visits (Taylor et al., ). However, other reviews have used health‐related quality of life as the outcome of interest rather than the symptom of breathlessness (Jonsdottir, ; Taylor et al., ).…”

Health in Partnership: Family Nursing Practice for People With Breathing Difficulties

“…What is the content and process of nursing practice that makes a difference to health and health care? These are the central questions for the discipline of nursing, and they need to be given much more consideration (Jonsdottir, 2008;Litchfield & Jonsdottir, 2008). Forbes and While (2009) warned us that nursing care in the chronic phase of disease is "increasingly being defined by external evidence from large clinical trials of pharmaceutical interventions .…”