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A case study identifying nursing staffs' perception of the delivery method of nursing care in practice on a particular ward
Author(s) -
McCormack Brendan
Publication year - 1992
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 - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1992.tb01873.x
Subject(s) - nursing , perception , nursing practice , nursing care , medicine , medline , psychology , political science , law , neuroscience
The research describes how nursing staff on a general surgical ward in a district general hospital perceived the delivery method of nursing care in practice The study design was based on ethnographic methods and data were collected by diary keeping and semi‐structured interviews An organizational method based on the principles of primary nursing had been implemented on the ward for 2 years prior to the study commencing As well as talking in general terms about primary nursing, the nursing staff talked at some length about specific issues related to their practice