Abstract
This study aimed to elucidate the current state of family nursing care for burn patients based on domestic Japanese literature. We searched online versions of major medical journals for original articles using Japanese keywords for “burn injury”, “family”, and “nursing”, with no restriction for publication year, and found 28 articles eligible for analysis. These articles were classified by publication year, journal, research method, and patient developmental stage. We then performed qualitative descriptive analysis on statements related to family nursing care for burn patients. Included articles were published between 1990 and 2013, and the most common journal was the Japanese Journal of Burn Injuries. We extracted 189 context units from statements related to family nursing care for burn patients, and analysis generated 20 subcategories and six categories, including “emotional responses from family and adjusting family functioning beginning immediately after burn injury”, and “fostering and supporting the development of attachment between family and hospitalized children”. We found continuing support appropriate to the extended treatment period from burn injury to hospital discharge being provided as family nursing care for burn patients. Moreover, support for families accompanying child patients and support requiring special consideration for burn wounds in terminal patients had distinctive characteristics.
