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Challenges in home care practice: a decision-making perspective.

Kathryn A Smith Higuchi·Antony Christensen·Jennifer Terpstra
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A qualitative approach using an ethnographic design was used to investigate the nature of clinical decision making in home care practice from home care nurses' perspective. In-depth interviews were conducted with experienced home care nurses (N = 16) in addition to observations of nurses during meetings and client visits. The findings indicate that the decision-making challenges involved in home care practice consisted of the following 4 major categories: (a) challenges that arise in the development of client-centered care plans, (b) challenges that arise from the home care practice environment, (c) challenges related to developing confidence in clinical decision making, and (d) challenges in ethical decision making. Education and practice recommendations for enhancing clinical decision making are also discussed.

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CommunicationDecision MakingEducation, NursingHome Care ServicesHumansInterviews as TopicNurse-Patient RelationsNursesNursing CareNursing ProcessPatient-Centered CareSocial IsolationJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Kathryn A Smith Higuchi, Antony Christensen, Jennifer Terpstra. 2002. Challenges in home care practice: a decision-making perspective.. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327655jchn1904_03

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