Patient Concerns, Emotional Resources, and Perception of Nurse and Patient Roles
- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
- Vol. 10 (1) , 27-33
- https://doi.org/10.2190/30ee-c3f8-b3y7-f77j
Abstract
Thirty-three patients in a cancer research hospital responded to questions on a semi-structured interview schedule. Patients in this sample did not perceive institution factors as contributing to their distress, identified cooperation with therapy and with institution staff as normative patient behavior, and instrumental activities as normative nurse behavior. Distress stimuli, categorized as physical, psychological, or social were not likely to be entirely amenable to staff care strategies.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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