Caring in the preparation of long‐term psychiatric patients for non‐institutional care: ethnonursing study

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Caring is the central and unifying domain for the body of knowledge and practices in nursing It was the purpose of this ethnonursing study to describe caring in the residential training for long‐term psychiatric patients in Finland in 1977–1988 Data were collected by interviewing 20 patients and 11 members of staff On the basis of the empirical data, four stages of caring could be distinguished formation, reformation, fragmentation and reintegration The changes in caring occurred on the following dimensions work for wages vs vocation, spontaneous social interaction vs the systematic instruction of practical skills, and collective activities vs individual activities

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