Beyond Patient-Provider Relationships: Expanding the Roles and Boundaries of Families during Patient End-of-Life.
Qual Health Res
; 32(11): 1620-1634, 2022 09.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35772971
ABSTRACT
Role conflict and strain occur when healthcare providers are required to cross boundaries, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to meet the needs of their dying patients. This research is an unobtrusive digital ethnography of a publicly accessible online forum for healthcare providers (N = 242 posts); it explores the boundaries set by families and healthcare providers, and identifies how healthcare providers navigate and which circumstances require them to sometimes cross these professional boundaries. Results indicate that patient-and-family-centered care may not be fully achieved due to the ambiguity in the expected roles played by both families and healthcare providers during patient death and dying. Grounded in data, an expanded model of the therapeutic alliance, which includes the family, is suggested.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Professional-Patient Relations
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Death
Type of study:
Qualitative_research
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Qual Health Res
Journal subject:
ENFERMAGEM
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PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States