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Facilitating Communication: How To Truly Understand What Patients Mean, Mona Shattell, Beverly Hogan
Facilitating Communication: How To Truly Understand What Patients Mean, Mona Shattell, Beverly Hogan
Mona Shattell
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You Catch More Flies With Honey: But Patients Shouldn’T Have To Manipulate Nurses To Receive Good Care, Mona Shattell
You Catch More Flies With Honey: But Patients Shouldn’T Have To Manipulate Nurses To Receive Good Care, Mona Shattell
Mona Shattell
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“It’S The People That Make The Environment Good Or Bad:” The Patient’S Experience Of The Acute Care Hospital Environment, Mona Shattell, Beverly Hogan, Sandra Thomas
“It’S The People That Make The Environment Good Or Bad:” The Patient’S Experience Of The Acute Care Hospital Environment, Mona Shattell, Beverly Hogan, Sandra Thomas
Mona Shattell
A review of contemporary nursing research reveals a tendency to focus on select aspects of the hospital environment such as noise, light, and music. Although studies such as these shed light on discrete aspects of the hospital environment, this body of literature contributes little to an understanding of the entirety of that world as the patient in the sickbed experiences it. The purpose of the study detailed in this article was to describe the patient’s experience of the acute care hospital environment. Nondirective, in-depth phenomenological interviews were conducted, then transcribed verbatim, and analyzed for themes. Against the backdrop of “I …
“Putting Feet To What We Pray About:” The Experience Of Caring By Faith-Based Care Team Members, Mona Shattell, Catherine Hasty
“Putting Feet To What We Pray About:” The Experience Of Caring By Faith-Based Care Team Members, Mona Shattell, Catherine Hasty
Mona Shattell
The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of caring by faith-based care team members. Nondirective, in-depth phenomenological interviews were conducted, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed for themes. Participants included 19 care team members who served on faith-based care teams providing in-home support for families with chronic and/or terminal illness. Analysis of the interview texts resulted in the following four themes: "putting feet to what we pray about," "building and sharing relationships," "it makes you more aware," and "because it's a team." Participants expressed a strong reciprocity in their experience; for example, "it's a mutual thing but I think …
“Nurse Bait:” Strategies Hospitalized Patients Use To Entice Nurses Within The Context Of The Nurse-Patient Relationship, Mona Shattell
“Nurse Bait:” Strategies Hospitalized Patients Use To Entice Nurses Within The Context Of The Nurse-Patient Relationship, Mona Shattell
Mona Shattell
Patients on medical-surgical and psychiatric inpatient units long for more and deeper connections with nurses. Patients’ dependence on the nursing staff, as well as their perceived powerlessness, creates a situation where patients believe they have to actively find ways to seek needed nursing care. This paper will describe active strategies used by medical-surgical patients to entice nurses within the context of the nurse-patient relationship; strategies designed to mitigate vulnerability and increase interpersonal connection. Implications for nursing practice and for Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations will be presented.