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The patient’s thoughts and feelings about their transfer from intensive care to the general ward
Author(s) -
Odell Mandy
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.01294.x
Subject(s) - feeling , intensive care , intensive care unit , meaning (existential) , hermeneutic phenomenology , qualitative research , nursing , interpretation (philosophy) , psychology , medicine , critical care nursing , psychotherapist , lived experience , health care , social psychology , psychiatry , intensive care medicine , sociology , social science , computer science , economics , programming language , economic growth
The patient’s thoughts and feelings about their transfer from intensive care to the general ward This qualitative, phenomenological study was undertaken to find out how patients felt about being transferred from the intensive care unit to the ward. The six patients who took part in the study, had been in intensive care for more than 4 days. Their transfer was planned as part of their recovery from a critical illness. Following transfer to the ward, the patients were interviewed using a semi‐structured approach. The interviews were audio‐taped, and transcriptions from the tapes were analysed for meaning and interpretation. Findings supported the literature that was reviewed, in that transfer from intensive care to the ward was a traumatic experience for the patient, who often found it confusing, stressful and tiring. Improvements to the transfer process can be guided using the information from the literature review and findings of the study.