Self-positioning in the context of double duty caregiving—Secondary analysis of a scoping review

IntroductionThere are increasing numbers of nurses who care for relatives in need of care in addition to their professional nursing duties. They are called double duty caregivers (DDCs). Nurses who are DDCs, are challenged by these two roles, as a family caregiver and a professional nurse, which can be very burdensome and exhausting [7, 10, 13, 20, 26]. As a consequence some DDCs decide to reduce their workload as a nurse or quit the job altogether [2]. This, in turn, increases the staff shortage in the healthcare system, which recently led to a growing interest of employers and politicians to support DDCs with…