Bakgrund: En av de mest vanligt förekommande dödsorsakerna i Sverige är hjärtstopp. Under pågående återupplivningsförsök kan anhöriga närvara. Syfte: Beskriva sjuksköterskans uppfattning av anhörignärvaro vid återupplivningsförsök. Metod: Detta är en litteraturöversikt. Datainsamling genomfördes i databaserna Cinahl och PubMed. Det resulterade i 15 vetenskapliga artiklar som ligger till grund för resultatet. Analys har skett i tre olika steg.  Resultat: Fem huvudrubriker identifierades. Dessa är anhörigas närvaro, beslut om anhörignärvaro, anhörigas närvaro påverkar sjuksköterskans arbete, betydelsen för anhöriga att närvara samt anhörigas behov av stöd. Det framkom meningsskiljaktigheter hos sjuksköterskorna om anhöriga ska tillåtas närvara eller ej. Det framkom en ökad upplevd stress hos sjuksköterskor samt att anhöriga stör arbetet på olika sätt. Det framkom även fördelar för anhöriga om de närvarade.  Slutsats: Det finns meningsskiljaktigheter bland sjuksköterskorna om anhörignärvaro är fördelaktigt eller ej. Sjuksköterskorna påverkas negativt av anhörigas närvaro medan anhörigas sorgeprocess underlättas och de får även se att alla tillgängliga behandlingar är utförda. Vid anhörigas närvaro är det av stor vikt att personal avsätts i syfte att informera och bemöta deras behov. / Background: One of the most common causes of death in Sweden is cardiac arrest. Family members can be present during resuscitation. Aim: Describe nurses’ perception about family presence during resuscitation. Method: This is a literature review. Data collection was performed in the databases Cinahl and PubMed. 15 scientific articles form the basis of the result. The analysis process has been done in three stages.  Result: Five main themes were identified: Family presence, decisions regarding family presence, family presence affects the nurses’ work, the importance of family members to be present and family members need of support. Disagreements emerged among the nurses as to whether family members should be allowed to be present during resuscitation or not. Nurses experienced a higher level of stress if family members were present and family members interrupted the work in different ways. There were also benefits for family members if they were present during resuscitation.  Conclusions: There are differences of opinion if it’s beneficial or not to have family present during resuscitation. Family presence affect the nurses in a negative way while it appears to ease family members grieving process and they also have the opportunity to witness that every available treatment is performed. It’s important to have a staff member set aside to inform and answer family members needs if they are present during resuscitation.

This thesis deals with the knowledge of processes and practical skills of cardiopulmonary resuscitation among nurses working in the field of anesthesia and intensive medicine. The theoretical part of this paper defines the notion of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, deals with its history, changing definitions, and the latest recommendations. It also describes and specifies terms such as competence, knowledge of the processes and the role of the nurse in the system. The empirical part, using a questionnaire survey, assesses orientation of nurses and nurses specialists in the latest recommendations in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the related knowledge and competences in the use of resuscitation itself. The questionnaire survey was answered by 152 respondents from 3 large hospitals in Prague. There were also the results of its investigation, compared with the results of research conducted by Václav Kukol in 2010 - 2011 as part of their thesis. In the final discussion paper evaluates the confirmation of the hypotheses. Then attach the recommendations for practice.