What is it about?
A literature review aimed to describe what is currently known about nurses’ assessment decisions when providing care to patients at home or in their usual place of residence.
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Why is it important?
It is important to understand what influences nursing clinical judgements and decisions in the delivery of HITH nursing care. Patient assessments; in combination with nursing education, experience, abilities, prior learning, beliefs, attitudes and values all appear to be key factors.
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This article highlights that there are gaps in the literature when enquiring how HITH nurses make clinical decisions when caring for patients at home.
Erika Gray
Eastern Health
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This page is a summary of: Hospital in the home nurses’ assessment decision making: an integrative review of the literature, Contemporary Nurse, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10376178.2018.1532802.
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