TITLE:
Good Relations between Nurses and Patients: Spreading the Wings of Imagination, Protecting Patients’ Souls
AUTHORS:
Mayumi Uno, Yukari Katayama
KEYWORDS:
Nurse-Patient Relations, Veteran Nurses, Nursing Practice, Sensitivity, Interview
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
26,
2018
ABSTRACT: Objective: To ascertain a method for
building good nurse-patient relations from the narratives of veteran nurses who
have accumulated profound nursing experience, and to show these phenomena in
model form. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted, verbatim records of the
contents of the interviews produced, and qualitative analysis undertaken.
Results of analysis and concepts considered important were shown in model form. Results: Veteran nurses, utilizing their nursing specialization, showed “Concern
as humans,” transcending their professional specialty. This was expressed as “spreading the wings of imagination” in order to know what is important
to patients, and “protecting souls” in order to defend, together with patients,
what is most important to the latter. “Spreading the wings of imagination to
protect patients’ souls” became the key to
build good nurse-patient relations. Conclusion: Nurses with deep experience expressed building good nurse-patient
relations as “spreading the wings of imagination and protecting patients’ souls.” We were able to ascertain that in nursing practice, using the sensitivity of veteran nurses, is one way of
manifesting nursing conduct.