Open AccessParadoxical perception of humanistic care in the intensive care unit: A qualitative study
Author(s) -
Hasandoost Fateme,
Mohammadi Eesa,
Khademi Mojgan,
Seddighi Mahyar
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
nursing open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2054-1058
DOI - 10.1002/nop2.1399
Subject(s) - intensive care unit , nonprobability sampling , nursing , qualitative research , humanism , perception , situational ethics , intensive care , content analysis , psychology , unit (ring theory) , medicine , sociology , social psychology , population , psychiatry , mathematics education , social science , environmental health , neuroscience , intensive care medicine , political science , law
Aim The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of nurses, patients and attendants of humanistic care in the intensive care unit. Design The present study was a qualitative conventional content analysis conducted in the intensive care unit in a hospital in Iran, in 2019. Methods Data were collected using semi‐structured interviews and field notes through purposive sampling with 17 nurses who worked in an adult ICU in a teaching hospital, 4 attendants and 4 alert patients, and then analysed using the Elo‐Kyngäs method in 2008. Results Analysis of the data led to the extraction of Four main themes as follows: (1) Insufficient understanding of nurses and patients' families of each other's roles, needs and expectations; (2) The use of personal and situational reasoning rather than ethical principles; (3) Caring stagnation; and (4) Satisfaction with care.