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Time in hospital
Author(s) -
HOLLOWAY IMMY M.,
SMITH PAM,
WARREN JOY
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1998.00173.x
Subject(s) - perception , time perception , duration (music) , psychology , nursing , control (management) , medicine , management , art , literature , neuroscience , economics
• This article is based on research into patients' perceptions of being in hospital. • Time, ordinarily taken for granted, becomes a significant problem for people in hospital. • Patients seek control over time that they do not seem to have during their stay in hospital. • They try to keep track of time and find ways of passing it, while believing that precious personal time is lost to them. • The insight gained into differing perceptions of time and how patients coped with these can be used to reduce some of the tensions and negative aspects of the way time is experienced in hospital.