Citation

Hall J, Nayar S. Contemp. Nurse 2014; 46(2): 161-169.

Affiliation

Faculty of Health & Environmental Science, Department of Nursing, School of Health Care Practice, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.5172/conu.2014.46.2.161

PMID

24787249

Abstract

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.

Language: en