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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Nurse-patient interaction"”.
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Nurses and their work in tuberculosis control in the Western Cape : too close for comfort
… rate is low and approximately 40% of diagnosed patients do not adhere to treatment. This has serious implications for the spread of multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis. The relationship between the patient and health care providers is one of the main determinants of compliance to medical …
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Patient Satisfaction and Total Quality Management: An Analysis of Customer Feedback
Problem: Patient satisfaction is an area of renewed interest related to quality of care and total quality management (TQM). Some patient satisfaction surveys provide narrative comments as well as empirical data about quality of care. Though numerous studies report empirical data, only one study was …
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Social isolation in intubated and nonintubated patients in the ICU
Based on the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism, verbal communication was identified as a necessary component of human social interaction. The problem of this study was to compare levels of nurses' verbal communication directed at intubated and nonintubated patients. Fourteen critical …
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Nursing Care through the Eyes of the Patient
Ethnographic methods were used to examine the nurse-patient interaction for the purpose of developing descriptive and explanatory theory of patient satisfaction based on patients' perceptions regarding their nurses' interpersonal skills. A private acute care hospital was the setting for 40 patients …
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Managing Patient Care: A Substantive Theory of Clinical Decision Making in Home Health Care Nursing
… theory to explain how home health care nurses make patient care decisions. Despite the continuing shift of health care from acute care settings to the patient's home, little is known about home health care nurses' clinical decision making processes and the factors influencing them. The …
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Messy boundaries: the lived experience when younger children’s nursing students are required to care for young people
It is acknowledged that caring interactions between younger, adolescent student nurses and young adolescent patients could precipitate particular difficulties and concerns for both parties during their journeys toward successful self-identity. The research undertaken identified two key dimensions: …