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| Elderly patients' participation in discharge decision making: 1 | | Author(s) | Sarah Jewell |
| Journal title | British Journal of Nursing, vol 5, no 15, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 914-916 and pp 929-932 |
| Keywords | Nursing homes ; Patients ; Participation ; Discharge ; Nurses. |
| Annotation | Discharge from hospital is not an isolated event, and should be regarded as a transfer from one care setting to another. This is the first of a two part series focusing on the participatory relationship between older patients and nurses. In phase one, the author conducted a group interview with primary nurses at two care units specialising in rehabilitation. The second phase involved a series of interviews with five patients during their hospital admission. Data from both phases were analysed using the Ethnograph software package. This article discusses the views of nurses; patients' views are discussed in the second article. Phase one showed that the nurses interviewed had an elaborate understanding of participation. They tended to stress practical examples in participation rather than stating reasons why it should be encouraged. They recognised the need to involve patients in decisions about their discharge from hospital. However, they viewed older patients as being both passive and reluctant to participate in decision making. Several reasons were given for this, which were seen as resulting from patient rather than nursing behaviour. Part 2 is published in vol 5(17), 26 September 1996. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980106228 A |
| Classmark | LHB: LF: TMB: QKJ: QTE * |
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