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Important aspects of nursing care in surgical wards as expressed by nurses
Author(s) -
IDVALL EWA,
ROOKE LISELOTTE
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.1365-2702.1998.00180.x
Subject(s) - nursing , qualitative research , staffing , nursing care , quality (philosophy) , perception , focus group , medicine , surgical nursing , interpretation (philosophy) , psychology , primary nursing , nurse education , computer science , sociology , social science , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , anthropology , programming language
• The aim of this study was to find out clinical nurses' perceptions of important aspects of nursing care that might have an impact on quality of care in surgical wards. • A qualitative approach using focus group interviews was used. • The data analysis revealed 15 categories of important aspects of care which could be condensed into two dimensions, here called `prerequisites' (i.e. staffing, routines and attitudes) and `elements of performance' (i.e. detecting and acting on signs and symptoms and acting on behalf of the patients). These aspects could be a starting point for developing quality indicators. • Carper's four fundamental patterns of knowing were used to make a theoretical interpretation, and three of them were identified.