TY - JOUR
T1 - Knowledge and presence
T2 - Accountability as described by nurses and surgical patients
AU - Cohen, Marlene Zichi
AU - Hausner, Judith
AU - Johnson, Marion
N1 - Funding Information:
*Director, Office of Nursing Research, Department of Nursing, University of Southern California, and Kenneth Norris, Jr. Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA. tbrscructor, Division of Nursing, Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant, IA. $Associate Professor, College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. The research, “Patients’ and Nurses’ Priorities During Hospitalization,” was funded by the National Center for Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Grant No. 1 ROl NR 01813, to Principal Investigator Marlene Zichi Cohen. Copyright 0 1994 by W. B. Saunders Company. 8755-7223/94/1003-0010$03.00/0
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Accountability was an integral part of phenomenological descriptions of 24 patients' experience of having surgery and 24 nurses' understanding of their experiences. Patients and nurses discussed two major elements, knowledge and presence, although the emphasis on categories within these elements differed. Within the element of knowledge, nurses emphasized lacking knowledge, using professional knowledge, teaching, and leadership. Patients talked most about receiving teaching and individualized knowledge. Nurses also emphasized structure and process, and patients emphasized outcomes. Within the element of presence, nurses talked most about environmental barriers and interaction, and patients emphasized attentive attitude. This view of accountability may help restructure work environments to allow nurses to meet the needs that patients perceive themselves as having.
AB - Accountability was an integral part of phenomenological descriptions of 24 patients' experience of having surgery and 24 nurses' understanding of their experiences. Patients and nurses discussed two major elements, knowledge and presence, although the emphasis on categories within these elements differed. Within the element of knowledge, nurses emphasized lacking knowledge, using professional knowledge, teaching, and leadership. Patients talked most about receiving teaching and individualized knowledge. Nurses also emphasized structure and process, and patients emphasized outcomes. Within the element of presence, nurses talked most about environmental barriers and interaction, and patients emphasized attentive attitude. This view of accountability may help restructure work environments to allow nurses to meet the needs that patients perceive themselves as having.
KW - Accountability
KW - Knowledge
KW - Phenomenology
KW - Presence
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U2 - 10.1016/8755-7223(94)90011-6
DO - 10.1016/8755-7223(94)90011-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 7518479
AN - SCOPUS:0028437853
SN - 8755-7223
VL - 10
SP - 177
EP - 185
JO - Journal of Professional Nursing
JF - Journal of Professional Nursing
IS - 3
ER -