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The Registered Nurse Experience Delivering Care to a Difficult Patient: A Qualitative Study
… Nurses provide care for patients they classify as “difficult.” The phenomenon of the difficult patient is described in nursing research and is associated with a broad spectrum of behaviors ranging from non-compliant to physical violence. Despite the recommendation from …
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Reconciling Temporalities: A Substantive Explanation of the Origins of Difficulty in the Nurse Patient Encounter
Nurses describe patients as difficult on a regular basis. Nursing research to date has assumed the existence of this phenomenon. Most studies have listed descriptors of the difficult patient and offered interventions for nurses to use to alter patient behavior. Locating of difficulty within the …