Understanding the caring relationship during marrow transplantation: family caregivers and healthcare professionals.
OBJECTIVE
To understand the caring relationship that family caregivers of marrow transplant recipients wish to have with healthcare professionals within the context of Swanson's Caring Model.


METHODS
Published articles, books, research results.


RESULTS
This article describes how family caregivers of marrow transplant recipients experience caring relationships with healthcare providers within the context of the five caring processes identified by Swanson. Specific strategies for forming caring relationships with family caregivers are recommended.


CONCLUSIONS
Healthcare professionals can enhance their caring relationship with family caregivers of marrow transplant recipients by embracing the five processes of Swanson's Caring Model: maintaining belief, knowing, being with, doing for, and enabling.


CONCLUSIONS
Strategies for forming caring relationships between healthcare professionals and family caregivers curing marrow transplantation include acknowledging family caregivers as individuals and providing clear expectations of the family caregiver role.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, USA.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000451:nursing*; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D004645:Empathy; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012380:Role; D012944:Social Support