[Primary nursing--a short literature review]

The literature review inspects how primary nursing influences care according to the perspectives of patients, their relatives and nursing personnel. The aim is to investigate research approaches, methods and results of primary nursing. The research concerning primary nursing is heavily focused on the perspective of personnel and quantitative research. This subject has been investigated only a little from the perspectives of patients and their relatives. However the results of these studies show that impressions of the patients, their relatives and nursing personnel support the assumption that primary nursing has a positive influence on the quality of care.