Table 4 Patients’ and HCPs’ perspectives of a nursing consultation intervention, their similarities and differences
Patients’ perspective | Similarities between patients and HCPs | HCPs’ perspective |
|---|---|---|
Requirements for the MS nurse offering the service | ||
MS nurse as an advocate | Same need for a continuous contact person: MS nurse need competence to have a trustful relationship with MS patients | Working multidisciplinary |
Involvement of the relatives | ||
Situations, when relatives should not be part of the nursing consultation intervention | Relatives have to be a part of the service | Relatives should always be part of the nursing consulting |
The need of a peer group | ||
Challenges: To know how valid shared information is | Same Advantages: To learn from each other | Challenges: To recruit enough suitable peers |
Match peer with same MS type or with same timeline in illness history | To choose peers carefully | Caution: Not to overwhelm new diagnosed patients when they meet seriously ill patients |
Peer groups need a leader and a predefined topic |