• Contemp Nurse · Feb 2016

    Users' participation in nursing care: an element of the Theory of Goal Attainment.

    • Rodrigo Nogueira da Silva and Márcia de Assunção Ferreira.
    • a Department of Nursing Fundamentals, Anna Nery School of Nursing , Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , 275, Afonso Cavalcanti St, Cidade Nova, Rio de Janeiro 20.211-110 , Brazil.
    • Contemp Nurse. 2016 Feb 1; 52 (1): 74-84.

    BackgroundUsers' participation in care has been acknowledged as a key factor to improve health services.AimTo analyze the Theory of Goal Attainment and to discuss the explicit and implicit relations between the Theory and the phenomenon of users' participation in nursing care.DesignTheoretical analysis of the Theory of Goal Attainment.MethodsThe analysis phase of the Framework for Analysis and Evaluation of Nursing Theories was applied. Then, the explicit and implicit relations between the Theory and the phenomenon of users' participation were analyzed.ResultsUsers' participation in nursing care is an element of the Theory of Goal Attainment, although limited to the goal setting and the means to achieve them.ConclusionThe choice for users' participation in care is a right defended in health policies around the world. The Theory of Goal Attainment is an appropriate guide to nurses in defense of users' participation in nursing care.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…