TY - JOUR T1 - Nurses and family caregivers of elderly relatives engaged in 4 evolving types of relationships JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 134 LP - 134 DO - 10.1136/ebn.3.4.134 VL - 3 IS - 4 A2 - , Y1 - 2000/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/3/4/134.abstract N2 - Ward-Griffin C, McKeever P.Relationships between nurses and family caregivers: partners in care?ANS Adv Nurs Sci2000 Mar;22:89–103OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed QUESTION: What is the nature of the relationships between community nurses and family members caring for elderly relatives? Qualitative study using a critical ethnographic approach.Southwestern Ontario, Canada.23 nurse-family caregiver pairs were identified from 3 community nursing agencies. Most pairs saw each other weekly and had known each other for periods ranging from 3 months to 14 years. All of the family caregivers were women (age range 33–82 y), and most provided care to their husbands who had chronic illnesses.Family caregivers and nurses each participated in private, indepth interviews in which they talked about their experiences of working together. Data from 38 interviews (mean length 75 min) and from field notes were transcribed and analysed using, as a frame of refer-ence, Twigg and Atkin's 4 conceptualisations of response of health and social workers to family caregivers.Nurses and family caregivers had 4 interrelated and evolving types of relationships, each representing different conceptualisations … ER -