Enhancing Caregiver Personhood: An Emerging Concept From Nursing Practice

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.