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[Relatives or 'Zugehörige'? - An attempt to explore the meaning of terms]
Dorothee Bauernschmidt1, Stephan Dorschner1
11 Georg-Streiter-Institut für Pflegewissenschaft, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule, Jena.
Abstract:
Relatives or 'Zugehörige'? - An attempt to explore the meaning of terms Abstract.
Background:
Societal change has an impact on social coexistence and it is associated with pluralisation of family patterns, altered kinship relations and a greater significance of friendship relations. This is also reflected in familial situations with occurring care needs and the professional carers' perception of these developments has found its linguistic equivalent in terms like 'relatives' or 'Zugehörige'. These and further terms used in nursing communication will be explored in this article.
Aim:
The objective of this article is to determine the meanings of terms used in German-speaking nursing literature for close persons of care receivers.
Methods:
For this purpose an explicating content analysis was conducted and etymological, juridical and social-scientific definitions were compared to the apprehension of professional care givers.
Results:
The findings show a wide range of terminology combined with a varying comprehension of these terms challenging their appropriateness for professional nursing communication.
Conclusions:
Based on these findings a definition of the concept 'relatives' is brought up for discussion as an attempt to contribute to a more coherent intraprofessional comprehension.