title: The family's experience of vigilance: challenges for nursing.
abstract: The article reports a qualitative study examining vigilance, or the close, protective involvement of families who stay with their hospitalized relatives. Participants described the meanings, patterns, and day-to-day experience of vigilance through five categories of meaning: commitment to care, emotional upheaval, dynamic nexus, transition, and resilience. These categories of meaning sensitize nurses to the family's experience of vigilance and have significant implications for nursing practice.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Carr
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012931:Social Environment