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Nurse-Patient Interpretations Of The Nurse's Touch, Judith Ann Trowbridge
Nurse-Patient Interpretations Of The Nurse's Touch, Judith Ann Trowbridge
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The purpose of this study was to discover whether or not patients and nurses derived a similar meaning from pictures of a nurse touching a patient in various ways. Five by seven inch black and white photographs were shown to thirty patients and thirty registered nurses. The subjects were controlled in regard to sex, race, residence, language, and physical and emotional orientation. They were asked to focus upon the photographed nurse's touch and to tell in one or two words what meaning they felt that the nurse was trying to convey to the patient by her touch. Responses were recorded …