On being cared for by a nurse
Isabel Higgins
OPAC, Research and Practice Development; Older Person Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle; Center for Practice Opportunity and Development, John Hunter Hospital, Hunter New England Health, Newcastle NSW
PP: 115 - 124
Abstract
The hospitalised patient's experiences of nursing care, the nature and the value of the patient's and nurse's relationships are relatively unexplored territory in terms of Australian research. This is despite the importance and centrality of caring to the practice of nursing and the very significant contributions that overseas researchers have made to understanding the phenomenon of care in nursing practice.
Given the social, economic and cultural differences between Australia and other countries a study, which examines Australian perspectives of the nursing caring experience, is long overdue. That caring makes a difference to the patient's sense of well being should come as no surprise to those of us who care. In this paper the writer aims to demonstrate how that difference comes about.
Keywords
caring; noncaring; phenomenology; wellbeing
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