The meaning of caring for people with malodorous exuding ulcers

Lindahl, Elisabeth; Söderberg, Anna

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04551.x

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“…Since wound assessment, treatment, and caring for patients are complex issues, nurses need to be continuously provided with new competence. This need for education has also been found in other studies (Lindahl et al, 2008). Education in wound care is under development in several parts of Europe but needs further elaboration.…”

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“…The complexity to care for patients with wound calls for improved inter-professional cooperation (Lindahl et al, 2008). The nurses' disappointment with the cooperation of the physicians emerged as particularly important.…”

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“…However, the caregiver perspective, such as wound treatment and what it is like to care for a patient with wounds, is more limitedly described. Lindahl, Norberg, and Söderberg (2008) show how nurses are affected both from staying physically close to patients with malodorous exuding ulcers and from seeing their bodily suffering. Kohr (2006) and Kohr and Gibson (2008) give insights to how nurses experience changing dressings in acute, long-term, or community care in Canada.…”

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Feeling confident in burdensome yet enriching care: Community nurses describe the care of patients with hard-to-heal wounds

Eskilsson

Carlsson

2010

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Treating patients with hard-to-heal wounds is a complex task that requires a holistic view. Therefore this study focuses on the nurse's perspective with the aim on describing how community nurses experience the phenomenon the care of patients with hard-to-heal wounds. The method used was a reflective lifeworld approach. Seven qualitative interviews with community nurses were conducted. The findings show a tension between enriching and burdensome care. In this tension, the nurses try to find energy to reach harmony in their work through reflection, acceptance, and distance. This is further described by the constituents: “taking responsibility,” “showing respect for the whole person,” “being confident in order to offer confidence,” “seeing time and place as important.” The discussion highlights the importance for a nurse to find how to give ideal care in one's duty but not beyond it. As a consequence the concept “compliance” needs to be challenged in order to promote confidence and mutual trust between nurses and patients. Confidence can be seen as a key, both for nurses and patients, and is dependent on good inter-professional cooperation, competence, and closure.

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Feeling confident in burdensome yet enriching care: Community nurses describe the care of patients with hard-to-heal wounds

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Carlsson

2010

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…3 Research carried out on experiences of caring for people with malodorous exuding ulcers appears to be sparse; thus we need to learn more about nurses' perspectives on this issue as well as on how to provide good care. By going back to the nurses who took part in our previous study, 3 and asking them to reflect on the findings from interviews with people with malodorous exuding ulcers, 2 we hoped to gain understanding not only about their work situation but also about options for making a change. This study aimed to illuminate nurses' reflections on obstacles to and possibilities for providing care as desired by people with malodorous exuding ulcers.…”

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Nurses’ ethical reflections on caring for people with malodorous exuding ulcers

2010

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The aim of this study was to illuminate nurses' reflections on obstacles to and possibilities for providing care as desired by people with malodorous exuding ulcers. Six nurses who took part in a previous study were interviewed. The participants were shown an illustration with findings from a study that elucidated the meaning of living with malodorous exuding ulcers. They were asked to reflect on the obstacles to and possibilities of providing the care desired by the patients. Twelve audio-recorded transcribed interviews were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Our interpretations of participants' reflections on the obstacles and possibilities while caring for such patients revealed one theme: striving to 'do good' and 'be good'. The obstacles were formulated as subthemes: experiencing clinical competence constraints, experiencing organizational constraints, experiencing ineffective communication, fearing failure, and experiencing powerlessness. The possibilities were formulated by the subthemes: spreading knowledge about ulcer treatments, considering wholeness, and creating clear channels of communication. A multiprofessional team could overcome the identified obstacles and provide structure, competencies, commitment and support to 'do good' for patients and 'be good' nurses.

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“…Of all the senses, this is the one most closely linked with memory. When the paper in this issue by Lindahl et al. (2008, pp.…”

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Tierney¹

2008

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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The meaning of caring for people with malodorous exuding ulcers

Abstract: Physical proximity and bodily suffering affect nurses. Caring for people with ulcers calls for improved interprofessional cooperation in order to provide the best treatments and care. Further education for these nurses is needed, as well as support from managements and organizations.

Cited by 10 publications

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Feeling confident in burdensome yet enriching care: Community nurses describe the care of patients with hard-to-heal wounds

Feeling confident in burdensome yet enriching care: Community nurses describe the care of patients with hard-to-heal wounds

Nurses’ ethical reflections on caring for people with malodorous exuding ulcers

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