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| Nurses' narrations and reflections about caring for patients with severe dementia as revealed in systematic clinical supervision sessions | | Author(s) | Göran Holst, A-K Edberg, Ingalill R Hallberg |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 13, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 89-108 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Nurses ; Medical care ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | This Swedish study supported the idea that encounters between nurses and people with severe dementia can create meaningfulness for both parties. This is because the nurse and the patient share each other's worlds, and are therefore strongly dependent on each other to maintain their identities and their images of themselves as good human beings. Encounters between patient and nurse could confirm or threaten a patient's identity as a person or the nurse's identity as a person and a professional. Nurses searched for the meaning of these caring encounters, based on their knowledge of each patient's earlier life and/or sensitivity to the patient's reactions in the current situation. Fragments of knowledge were pieced together into a meaningful whole. Considering nurses in dementia care as co-authors and guides in the lives of people with dementia, it seems important to encourage systematic storytelling about patients, caring, and the nurses themselves. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000120213 A |
| Classmark | EA: DB: QTE: LK: 76P |
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