Abstract
Background: The patients´recovery can be affected by various factors such as treatment, environment and relationship created between the nurses and the patients. The nurses has a patient-close relationship that differs from other health care categories. The meeting between the patients and the nurses is about the meeting between two individual people, therfore the risk of not understanding each other may exist. Nursing care is of great importance and central to the patients´recovery and need is to deepen knowledge of this. The purpose: is to discribe the patients´experience of the nursing care that promotes their recovery in somatic care. Method: Systematic literature study with descriptive synthesis based on twelve qualitative articles analyzed according to Evans (2002) analysis model. Results: analysis of materials resulted in two themes with four associated subthemes where the patients´experience of the nurses´care promoting their recovery emerged. The first themes were to maintain hope and associated subthemes: the meaning of information and the meaning of reflection. Another theme was to gain security with the associated subthemes: the importance of motivation and the importance of close attendance. Conclusion: The patients experienced that the nurses´close care promoted their recovery. The fact that the nurses really listened to them provided security and lessened her own anxiety. Experience is individual, unique and may differ depending on context.
Keywords: Caritative care, nursing care, patient experience, qualitative study, recovery.