The concept of 'existential', used frequently in Scandinavian healthcare journals, is
associated with various, often unclear, meanings, highlighting the need for a more accurate …

Background Historically, caring touch was integrated in targeted nursing acts as shoulder
massage, calming patients or to check vital parameters by touching the patients skin …

Aims and objectives To explore family members' experiences of long‐term intensive care
unit (ICU) patients' pathways towards survival and to highlight family members' efforts to …

Our general purpose is to show how a philosophically oriented theoretical foundation, drawn
from a lifeworld perspective can serve as a coherent direction for caring practices in …

Background The way health care professionals touch patients and relatives in the intensive
care unit plays a significant role. A negative feeling can be caused by being touched in the …

Empirical phenomenological inquiry and analyses are of high relevance and applicability for
nursing and health care. Phenomenology has clear roots in philosophy, which needs to be …

Aim This study aimed to explore nurses' perceptions of touch in their professional practice
and how these perceptions were articulated in discourse, among participants who attended …

Background: Dignity is an important ideal in the nursing of older women who need municipal
care. Dignity can be challenged when health is impaired by feeling grief and suffering …

The purpose of this study was to describe nurses' perceptions about the use of interpersonal
touch in their clinical practice. A qualitative descriptive approach with content analysis …

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to illuminate the experience of caring touch in
intensive care from the perspectives of patients, next-of-kin, and healthcare professionals …