2014
DOI: 10.1155/2014/647653
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Qualitative Inquiry into the Patients' Expectations regarding Nurses and Nursing Care

Abstract: Background and Objectives. Awareness about the patients' needs and expectations is quite important in improving the quality of the services they are provided with. Since meeting the needs and expectations of the patients is one of the basic issues in patient care, the present study aimed to investigate the patients' expectations from nurses and nursing care. Methods. In this qualitative study, 20 hospitalized patients were interviewed. The data were gathered through deep, semistructured interviews. Then, all t… Show more

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“…This joyful time was created as nurses fulfilled their patients’ needs immediately. Similar to a previous study about patients’ expectations regarding nurses and nursing care, an immediate response to the patient need was one of the critical expectations of patients (Najafi Kalyani et al, 2014 ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 58%
“…This joyful time was created as nurses fulfilled their patients’ needs immediately. Similar to a previous study about patients’ expectations regarding nurses and nursing care, an immediate response to the patient need was one of the critical expectations of patients (Najafi Kalyani et al, 2014 ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 58%
“…Patients who work have more expectations, because they are more demanding of health workers to provide services that meet their expectations. Therefore, patients who work have higher expectations than patients who do not work (Najafi Kalyani et al, 2014).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[23] These theoretical difficulties might have important implications in clinical practice and seems important to understand the meaning of comfort, in order to design, implement and evaluate feasible and effective interventions, centered on patients' experiences and expectations. [6,7,18,24] The first aim of this study concerns PC patients' experiences on comfort. Despite patients have been invited to talk about a comfortable and uncomfortable experience, the great majority reported uncomfortable experiences.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…[13] The better the nurses may know the patients' perspectives, feelings and views, probably the better their needs will be addressed. [18][19][20] Research based on patients' perspective could be critical to the diagnosis accuracy and to promote and implement effective interventions in PC.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%