Enhancing Caregiver Personhood: An Emerging Concept From Nursing Practice

This article presents the development of the concept enhancing caregiver personhood to deepen understanding of family caregiving for children with medical complexities within pediatric home health nursing. Guided by Liehr and Smith’s concept-building process and grounded in Boykin and Schoenhofer’s theory of nursing as caring, the concept emerged from a practice story and was refined through literature review and interviews. Core qualities of the concept were synthesized into a concept story and visualized in a conceptual model. The resulting synthesis emphasized the importance of theory-guided nursing practice and the centrality of caring in sustaining the family–nurse partnership.