Lived Experiences of General Nurses Working in Standerton Hospital Medical Wards Designated to Be a 72-hour Assessment for Psychiatric Patients
Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of general \nnurses working at Standerton hospital medical wards which also admit psychiatric \npatients. A qualitative, descriptive phenomenological approach was used for the study. \nThe study population consisted of seven general nurses working in medical wards at \nStanderton hospital. Purposive sampling was used to select participants who met the \ninclusion criteria. Researcher used in-depth face to face interviews to collect data until \ndata saturation was achieved. Tesch’s method of qualitative data analysis was utilised to \nidentify themes. Three themes and five sub-themes emerged from the study: theme1: \nperceived danger due to aggression sub-themes stress for medical patients, stress for \nmedical patients’ families and stress for nurses. Theme 2: lack of skills in dealing with \npsychiatric patients’ sub- theme use of restrains. Theme 3: self fulfilling prophecy subtheme \nreported incidences. The study findings demonstrate the plight of general nurses \nwho are not trained to work with psychiatric patients but continue to do so. Findings \nfurther accentuate what is already known about the labelling that goes with psychiatric \npatients and aggression as a resultant effect. Recommendations were made for future \nresearch, policy makers, nursing education and practice.
Author: Nozipho Felicity Gule
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2184675580