The right to get good nursing care
Babone, Kofi (2009)
Babone, Kofi
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2009
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-200905062453
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-200905062453
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The purpose of this thesis is to find out nurses’ descriptions of the implementation of the act of the patient rights with pulmonary disease in HUS Jorvi hospital and how the nurses implement the act of the patient rights in their own ward.
This thesis aimed at collecting data from nurses at a hospital ward. The research ques-tions are: What are pulmonary patients’ rights according to the act described by nurses and how do nurses implement the patient rights in their own ward.
The method of qualitative nursing research was conducted in this thesis. Focus group interviewing was the research method. The informants (n = 5) of this thesis were regis-tered nurses. They worked on a pulmonary ward in HUS Jorvi hospital, Espoo, Finland. The interview was implemented in December 2008. The collected data was analysed by using inductive content analysis. In this thesis the findings propose that the funda-mental rights of the patients on pulmonary ward are individuality, co-operation and nursing, which have sub-categories of equality, needs, privacy, information, decision-making, opinions, primary nursing, delicate nursing and specialised nursing. As a unit-ing category to all these rights was the right to get good nursing care. The implementa-tion of these rights on pulmonary ward complied relatively well with the views of the nurses. There were some challenging situations for instance with the implementation of privacy and confidentiality.
In my opinion and according to the findings the patient rights are very well implemented on the pulmonary ward and the patients are treated equally despite of their origin, race, mother tongue, religion or the nature of the disease.
This thesis aimed at collecting data from nurses at a hospital ward. The research ques-tions are: What are pulmonary patients’ rights according to the act described by nurses and how do nurses implement the patient rights in their own ward.
The method of qualitative nursing research was conducted in this thesis. Focus group interviewing was the research method. The informants (n = 5) of this thesis were regis-tered nurses. They worked on a pulmonary ward in HUS Jorvi hospital, Espoo, Finland. The interview was implemented in December 2008. The collected data was analysed by using inductive content analysis. In this thesis the findings propose that the funda-mental rights of the patients on pulmonary ward are individuality, co-operation and nursing, which have sub-categories of equality, needs, privacy, information, decision-making, opinions, primary nursing, delicate nursing and specialised nursing. As a unit-ing category to all these rights was the right to get good nursing care. The implementa-tion of these rights on pulmonary ward complied relatively well with the views of the nurses. There were some challenging situations for instance with the implementation of privacy and confidentiality.
In my opinion and according to the findings the patient rights are very well implemented on the pulmonary ward and the patients are treated equally despite of their origin, race, mother tongue, religion or the nature of the disease.