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The aim of this paper is to undertake a concept analysis of ‘over-involvement’, a term often used in nursing to describe a nurse's excessive personal investment in a patient's fate. Over-involvement can cause unrealistic expectations that are detrimental to the patient, the nurse and the organization, but there has been a lack of attention in the literature to the management of personal involvement in nurse-patient relationships. Walker and Avant's (2005) framework is used to provide a step-by-step analysis and clarification of the concept of over-involvement and to propose a definition that may contribute to the generation of the knowledge needed to improve nursing practice in this area.
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