Exploring person-centred fundamental nursing care in hospital wards: A multi-site ethnography.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore how nurses in hospitals enact person-centred fundamental care delivery.

Background

Effective person-centred care is at the heart of fundamental nursing care, but it is deemed to be challenging in acute health care as there is a strong biomedical focus and most nurses are not trained in person-centred fundamental care delivery. We therefore need to know if and how nurses currently incorporate a person-centred approach during fundamental care.

Design

Focused ethnography approach.

Methods

Observations of 30 nurses on three different wards in two Dutch hospitals during their morning shift. Data were collected through passive observations and analysed using framework analysis based on the fundamentals of care framework. The COREQ guideline was u

SUBMITTER: van Belle E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319433 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature