Tactile Massage as Part of the Caring Act
| Autor: | Fanny Airosa, Gunnar Öhlén, Torkel Falkenberg, Maria Arman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Nursing (miscellaneous)
Nursing staff Critical Care Holistic Nursing Attitude of Health Personnel Therapeutic Touch media_common.quotation_subject Nurses Compassion Economic shortage Nurse's Role Interviews as Topic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Tactile massage Health care medicine Humans Pain Management 030212 general & internal medicine Patient Comfort Qualitative Research media_common Massage Sweden 030504 nursing business.industry Lived experience medicine.disease Medical emergency Empathy Emergency Service Hospital Nurse-Patient Relations 0305 other medical science business Emergency nursing Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Holistic Nursing. 34:13-23 |
| ISSN: | 1552-5724 0898-0101 |
| Popis: | Aims and Objectives: The aim of this study was to illuminate the nursing staff’s lived experiences and meaning in giving tactile massage (TM) while caring for patients in short-term emergency ward. Method: Data were collected through individual qualitative interviews with six nurses and eight assistant nurses working with TM in short-term emergency wards in two hospitals in Sweden. The narratives were analyzed using a phenomenological hermeneutical method. Findings: Nurses experienced providing TM to patients as a present awareness in connection with compassion for the patient. TM provided the nurses with a tool to ease patient suffering and pain. Three dimensions were found where touch became a tool of doing, was an aware presence as a mindful being, and was embodied in a human-to-human connection with a changed caregiver. Conclusion: Given the current high-tech health care system with overcrowded units and a shortage of nursing staff, TM could be included as a caring tool to improve the caring in caregiving, allowing nurses to act in aware presence by touch to encourage health and well-being for both the patient and themselves. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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