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Author  |
Blair, S. |
| Title |
The human cost of 'caring' care for registered nurses in clinical practice |
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| Year |
1999 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington |
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| Abstract |
This research utilized a focus group methodology to discover what nurses in clinical practice considered 'caring' care meant for them. Six registered nurses volunteered to participate in the project. They practiced over a wide variety of real settings within the public hospital, which provided both acute and elective surgical and medical services, including an extensive elderly population. Taking these important 'caring' statements, I then explored with the group what factors in their work environment hindered of enhanced their identified 'caring' care in clinical practice as did their overseas counterparts. This study also highlighted the impact the health reforms had on the individual clinical practice at this hospital. The effects of the institutional changes in response to the health reforms were far reaching at both the personal and professional level. Caring is an important concept found in nursing practice. It has been widely documented By nurse scholars, researchers and nurse authors that care is at the core of nursing practice.Some have even referred to care as being the heart of nursing. The finding from the present research indicates the importance nurses place on caring in their day to day encounters with patients. It also demonstrates how nurses express their care and their perceptions of the importance of care has in the clinical practice |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 246 |
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246 |
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| Author |
Blair, S. |
| Title |
The lived experience of the surgical patient |
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Miscellaneous |
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Abbreviated Journal |
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| Abstract |
Acute illness as lived experience gives the person involved an understanding and knowledge of how they perceive a crisis in their lives. It also provides meaning and orientation to their world. Any perception a person has to an acute illness is a lived experience for that person. It is very personal and will live with that person forever |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 115 |
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115 |
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