Discuss the ambiguity and conflict in nursing roles required in critical care areas, balancing the biomedical model of care with holistic nursing of patients and families. What societal trends have increased family caregiver stress and burden? 

 

As the professional healthcare providers should clearly understand what is expected of their performance , as this can only be achieved when every member clearly understands their roles and overall objectives. However, the complexity of patient care is complex, technology development, environment as well as social political effects frequently might exhibit nurses' presence at bedside. During critical care patients are often unable to communicate, hence conflicts and ambiguity was related to differences in participants views on what constitutes to good care based on different care approaches, as healthcare professionals' views on good care were based predominantly on a biomedical care model, while the families' views on good care were mainly inspired by a holistic life world-oriented approach. Thus good care from families point of view included seeking exhaustive information as well as participating in end of life decision making, hence with healthcare biomedical views on offering good care was strengthened by the features of the critical care context whereas , the families holistic views on offering good care were as well reinforced by the specific characteristics of families ethno familiar care context which includes their different ethno cultural backgrounds, therefore,  ethno-cultural differences between participants only contributed to conflicts in confrontation with a triggering critical care context in the healthcare setting

Some of the societal trends which have increased family caregiver stress and burden include;

• With the use of digital technology, as health educator should find areas where the computer can help in proving counter productive as well as proper places in education, as the older generation might need the option of traditional surveys as larger portion is not familiar with technology, thus digital technology should be considered very appropriate means for performing needs assessments
• Under translation to health education practice , family caregiving is challenging and wrought with personal, physical as well as emotional sacrifices , as growing body of evidence indicates that disease education as well as caregiver support programs can partially mitigate the stress and burden brought on by family caregiving
• The other societal trend is strained finances and loss of entitlements, as health educators might need to be familiar with the economics of aging and caregiving, hence health educator will need to consider financial cost as a major barrier to participation, however, securing fiscal resources as well as financial support for health education programs might lower cost for participants
• There are more diversity among caregivers as well as care recipients, with assessing, planning and more so implementing health education for baby boomers should include approaches based on the individual as well as community of caregivers as well as care recipients. However, health educator should meet the diversity standard of being appropriate, acceptable as well as adaptable
• Another societal trend is more complex and care management, hence effective intervention might emphasize on health educators as well as the acquisition of skills and more so bolster the person's motivation, thus this approach encourages independence and lessens the burden on family caregivers