'Smiles and laughter and all those really great things': Nurses' perceptions of good experiences of care for inpatient children and young people with intellectual disability.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To understand what constitutes a good experience of care for inpatient children and young people with intellectual disability as perceived by nursing staff.

Design

Interpretive qualitative study.

Methods

Focus groups with clinical nursing staff from speciality neurological/neurosurgical and adolescent medicine wards across two specialist tertiary children's hospitals in Australia were conducted between March and May 2021. Data analysis followed interpretative analysis methods to develop themes and codes which were mapped to a conceptual model of safe care.

Results

Six focus groups with 29 nurses of varying experience levels were conducted over 3 months. Themes and codes were mapped to the six themes of the conceptual model: use rapport, know the child, nego

SUBMITTER: Mimmo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9544709 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature