The Doctors' vs the Nurses' View of Emotional Disturbance
- 1 June 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal
- Vol. 10 (3) , 212-215
- https://doi.org/10.1177/070674376501000308
Abstract
1) Doctors and nurses selecting emotionally disturbed patients from the same population concurred in only about one-third of cases. 2) Nurses tended to select more seriously ill patients with organically impaired brain function, while the resident physician selected younger, less seriously ill patients. 3) These discrepancies are best understood in terms of how the patient's total pattern of behaviour intrudes itself and provokes uncertainty in the different roles of physician and nurse.Keywords
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