The Frontline Nurse's Experience of Nursing Outlier Patients.

ABSTRACT: The frontline nurses' experience of nursing with overstretched resources in acute care setting can affect their health and well-being. Little is known about the experience of registered nurses faced with the care of a patient outside their area of expertise. The aim of this paper is to explore the phenomenon of nursing the outlier patient, when patients are nursed in a ward that is not specifically developed to deal with the major clinical diagnosis involved (e.g., renal patient in gynecology ward). Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, eleven individual face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with registered nurses in New South Wales, Australia. The study identified that each nurse had a specialty construct developed from nursing in a specialized environment. Each nurse h

SUBMITTER: Cheung J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7400079 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature