District nurses’ experiences and perceptions of cancer patient referrals
| Autor: | Gretl A. McHugh, Karen A. Luker, Brian Pateman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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District nurse
medicine.medical_specialty Palliative care Referral media_common.quotation_subject Decision Making Patient referral Nursing Neoplasms Perception medicine Humans Referral and Consultation Primary nursing media_common Community and Home Care Social work business.industry Communication Palliative Care General Medicine Community Health Nursing Patient need England Family medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Europe PubMed Central Scopus-Elsevier Gretl McHugh |
| ISSN: | 2052-2215 1462-4753 |
| Popis: | Traditionally palliative care of cancer patients has been seen as an important and defining aspect of district nursing. Care of the dying patient has been used to describe the ability and scope of the district nursing service to holistically provide for patient need. However health and social service changes in the last decade have refocused the district nurse’s role away from holistic delivery to more specialised care. There is also research evidence that there are several contradictions in referral processes to the district nursing service. We conducted a study to explore district nurses’ perceptions and experiences of referral of cancer patients to gain insight into these referral processes. We interviewed 20 nurses from three primary care trusts to explore the referral process of cancer patients to the district nursing service from the district nurses point of view. The nurses expressed concerns regarding completeness, accuracy and appropriateness of referral and suggested improvements that could be made. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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