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Nurses' altered conceptions of work in a ward with all‐RN staffing
Author(s) -
LUNDGREN SOLVEIG M.,
SEGESTEN KERSTIN
Publication year - 2002
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.1365-2702.2002.00595.x
Subject(s) - staffing , perspective (graphical) , nursing , narrative , work (physics) , focus group , psychology , qualitative research , medicine , sociology , social science , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , anthropology , engineering
• The aim of this study was to investigate how nurses' conceptions of their patients and work changed after reorganization to all RN‐staffing and the adoption of a patient‐in‐focus philosophy on the ward. • The study builds on the perspective that the individual's conception of work precedes and forms the basis for the development of knowledge, skills and attributes used in accomplishing work. • The findings are based on a secondary analysis of two open interviews with 22 nurses on the ward. These interviews were conducted on two occasions with an interval of 2 years. The third interview was carried out 6 months later, when 10 nurses were asked to talk about a patient's care episode in a narrative form. • The nurses' conceptions changed towards a holistic view of the patient, they developed a new approach to work and they used the altered circumstances in their work.