Caring Community Nurses With Family Readiness to Receive Advanced Therapy Information in the Elderly

Abstract

The increase in the number of elderly indicates an increase in life expectancy. The increasing elderly population reflects an increase in health services. The application of caring by nurses in the community has not been explained. Caring is the basis for nurses to be able to analyse nursing actions that are carried out properly and appropriately for clients who are a reference in follow-up care. The literature search in this study was carried out by identifying all types of national and international articles regarding Caring for Community Nurses and the readiness of families to receive further therapy information. The electronic database used is PubMed, Springer, and Google Scholar with a search strategy using the PICO (patient, intervention, comparison and outcome) method. Participants revealed that caring is an attitude of empathy, caring for the patient's needs, providing nursing care not only when the patient comes to the public health centre, but also when the nurse does home care. Participants expressed caring behaviours such as empathy, being friendly to patients who came to the treatment centre, caring about patient needs, making patient home visits, paying attention to the health that needs by patients. Caring for community nurses as an effort to improve the performance of community nurses in providing nursing services to the elderly so as to create integrated and comprehensive care for the elderly. The increasing relationship between patients and nurses that are established in a professional manner, helped participants get to know the many patients who came for treatment at the Public health centre.