Nurses and the Hospital Environment

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This paper explores the role of the nurse in creating a positive hospital stay for patients. The author describes a case study of hospital patients and summarizes these findings and their implications to nursing. The paper highlights the difference between the physical setting of the hospital and the importance of the interpersonal connections of the nursing staff to patients.

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"Overall this study attempted to reveal the perceptions of the hospital environment to patients in the acute care setting. It bought to light the fact that patients are not as concerned with the physical environment as the interpersonal connections with nurses. Few people in the study spoke of the actual physical environment of the acute care hospital. The following words of one of the participants should be a reminder to nurses that we do make a vital difference to our patients. " The psychic income from being a nurse is having that personal reward fro knowing you're making a personal difference to someone in that human-to-human contact."(Shattell et al., 2005)"

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• Leininger, M. M. (1985). Qualitative research methods in nursing. Orlando, FL: Grune & Stratton.
• Morse, J. M. (1989). Qualitative nursing research; A contemporary dialogue. Rockville, MD: Aspen Publishers.
• Pollio, H. R., & Humphreys, W. L. (1996, December). It's all about connection. Retrieved September 29, 2005, from http://www.aeced.net/ed/Issues/Lecture.htm
• Shattell, M., Hogan, B., & Thomas, S. P. (2005, April/June). "It's the people that make the environment good or bad": the patient's experience of the acute care hospital environment. AACN Clinical Issues: Advanced Practice in Acute and Critical Care, 16(2), pp.159-169. Retrieved September 21, 2005, from Ovid Technologies database

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