Building trust to work with children after a severe traumatic accident.
Trust is integral to nursing; yet little is known about how nurses establish trust when working with patients. This grounded theory study explored nurses' perspectives of how to build trust with a child and family in the context of paediatric acute health care. Seven paediatric acute care nurses were asked what they did when they cared for a child admitted to an acute care ward from emergency department or intensive care unit following a severe traumatic accident. Building trust emerged as the basic social process for an effective working relationship between a nurse and family to promote the rehabilitation of the child. This paper argues that building trust is critical to nurses developing a working relationship with both child and family to promote optimal health, and enables nurses to effectively step out and handover the care of the child to the family.
Faculty of Health & Environmental Science, Department of Nursing, School of Health Care Practice, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Julianne
J
Hall
Shoba
S
Nayar
D000059:Accidents / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D035502:Trust; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology*