作者
Margaret Fry, Lynn Chenoweth, Casimir MacGregor, Glenn Arendts
发表日期
2015/8/1
期刊
International journal of nursing studies
卷号
52
期号
8
页码范围
1323-1331
出版商
Pergamon
简介
Background
On arrival to the emergency department many older persons are accompanied by family/carers. Yet the role of family/carers in the emergency department is unclear. We know very little about how emergency department nurses balance care practices to accommodate family/carers while specifically meeting the needs of cognitively impaired older persons experiencing pain.
Objectives
The aim of this paper was to understand emergency nurses’ perceptions of the role of family/carers in caring for the older cognitively impaired person experiencing pain.
Design
Emergency nurses were invited to participate in focus group interviews. A semi-structured interview tool was developed from the literature and comprised open-ended questions and three Likert scale items which assisted to focus nurses’ thoughts on their perceived role of family/carers in the emergency department.
Settings
The study was undertaken …
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