Experiences of nurses working in a stroke rehabilitation unit

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-44

  Barreca, Susan ^a,b   Wilkins, Seanne ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interpretive phenomenology; Interviews; Job satisfaction; Nurse patient relations; Roles; Stroke rehabilitation; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REHABILITATION NURSING; STANDARD; STROKE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; ONTARIO; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REHABILITATION NURSING; STROKE;

EID: 45349097825     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04648.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Addison R. B. (1999) A grounded hermeneutic editing approach. In Doing Qualitative Research, 2nd edn (Crabtree B.T. Miller W.L., eds Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 145 163.
2. Baumann A., O'Brien-Pallas L., Armstrong-Stassen M., Blythe J., Bourbonnais R., Cameron S., Doran D.I., Kerr M., McGillis Hall L., Zina M.V., Butt M. Ryan L. (2001) Commitment and Care: The Benefits of a Healthy Workplace for Nurses, their Patients and the System. Retrieved from http://www.chsrf.ca on 31 August 2005.
3. Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee (CNAC) (2002) Our Health, our future: Creating Quality Workplaces for Canadian Nurses. The Final Report of the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee. Advisory Committee on Health Human Resources, Ottawa, ON. Retrieved from http://www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/ ndirect/cnac.html on 18 March 2005.
4. College of Nurses of Ontario, Practice Standard (2005) Pub. No. 41006. Retrieved from http://www.cno.org/docs/prac41062_UtilizeRnRpn.pdf on 8 November 2007.
5. Conroy S.A. (2003) A pathway for interpretive phenomenology. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 3, 1 18.
6. Dowswell G., Foster A., Young J., Sheard J., Wright P. Bagley P. (1999) The development of a collaborative stroke training programme for nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing 8, 743 753.
7. Gibbon B. (1999) An investigation of interprofessional collaboration in stroke rehabilitation team conferences. Journal of Clinical Nursing 8, 246 252.
8. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (2003) Co-ordinated Stroke Strategy. Stroke Rehabilitation Consensus Panel Report. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Toronto, ON.
9. Hill M.C. Johnson J. (1999) An exploratory study of nurses' perceptions of their role in neurological rehabilitation. Rehabilitation Nursing 24, 152 157.
10. Jones M., O'Neill P., Waterman H. Woods C. (1997) Building a relationship: communications and relationships between staff and stroke patients on a rehabilitation ward. Journal of Advanced Nursing 26, 101 110.
11. Kirkevold M. (1997) The role of nursing in rehabilitation of acute stroke patients: toward a unified theoretical perspective. Advances in Nursing Science 19, 55 64.
12. Kneafsey R. Long A.F. (2002) Multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams: the nurse's role. British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation 8, 24 28.
13. Kuokkanen L. Leino-Kilpi H. (2001) The qualities of an empowered nurse and the factors involved. Journal of Nursing Management 9, 273 280.
14. Kuokkanen L. Leino-Kilpi H. (2003) Nursing empowerment, job-related satisfaction and organization commitment. Journal of Nursing Care Quality 18, 184 192.
15. Kuzel A.J. (1999) Sampling in qualitative inquiry. In Doing Qualitative Research (Crabtree B.F. Miller W.L., eds Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 33 45.
16. Laverty S.M. (2003) Hermeneutic phenomenology and phenomenology: a comparison of historical and methodological considerations. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Retrieved from http://www.ualberta.ca/∼iiqm/ 2_3final/htlm/laverty.html on 9 February 2003.
17. Lewinter M. Mikkelsen S. (1995) Patients' experience of rehabilitation after stroke. Disability and Rehabilitation 17, 3 9.
18. Lui M.H.L. Mackenzie A.E. (1999) Chinese elderly patients' perceptions of their rehabilitation needs following a stroke. Journal of Advanced Nursing 30, 391 400.
19. van Manen M. (2001) Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy, 2nd edn. The Althouse Press, London, ON.
20. Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Registered Practical Nurses. Retrieved from http://www.edu.gov.on on 19 May 2007.
21. Morse J. (1991) Strategies for sampling. In Qualitative Nursing Issues (Morse J.M., ed. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA, pp. 127 145.
22. Nolan M. Nolan J. (1998) Stroke 1: a paradigm care in nursing rehabilitation. British Journal of Nursing 7, 316 322.
23. O'Connor S.E. (2000) Mode of care delivery in stroke rehabilitation nursing: a development of Kirkevold's unified theoretical perspective of the role of the nurse. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing 4, 180 188.
24. O'Connor S.E. (2002) Nursing Interventions in Stroke Rehabilitation: A Study of Nurses' Views of their Pattern of Care in Stroke Units. Continuing Education. Retrieved from http://www.rehabnurse.org.ce on 20 September 2002.
25. Pound P. Ebrahim S. (1997) Redefining 'doing something': health professionals' views on their role in the care of stroke patients. Physiotherapy Research International 2, 12 28.
26. Pound P. Ebrahim S. (2000) Rhetoric and reality in stroke patient care. Social Science and Medicine 51, 1437 1446.
27. Pryor J. Smith C. (2002) A framework for the role of registered nurses in the specialty practice of rehabilitation nursing in Australia. Journal of Advanced Nursing 39, 249 257.
28. Secrest J.S. (2002) How stroke survivors and primary support persons experience nurses in rehabilitation. Rehabilitation Nursing 27, 176 181.
29. Secrest J.S. Thomas S.P. (1999) Continuity and discontinuity: the quality of life following stroke. Rehabilitation Nursing 24, 90 99.
30. Sherwood Q. (1993) A qualitative analysis of patient responses to caring: a moral and economic imperative. In Global Agenda for Caring (Gaunt D.A., ed. National League for Nursing Press, New York, pp. 243 253.
31. Singleton J.K. (2000) Nurses' perspectives of encouraging clients' care-of-self in a short-term rehabilitation unit within a long-term care facility. Rehabilitation Nursing 25, 23 30.
32. Teasell R., Doherty T., Speechley M., Foley N. Bhogal S.K. (2002) Evidence-Based Review of Stroke Rehabilitation. Retrieved from http://www.ebrsr.com/index_home.html on 1 December 2004.
33. Thorn S. (2000) Neurological rehabilitation nursing: a review of the research. Journal of Advanced Nursing 31, 1029 1038.
34. Tourangeau A.E., Coghlan A.L., Shamian J. Evans S. (2005) Registered nurse and registered practical nurse evaluations of their hospital practice environments and their responses to these environments. Nursing Leadership 18, 54 69.
35. Tran C., Nadareishvili Z., Smurawska L., Oh P.I. Norris J.W. (1999) Decreasing cost of stroke hospitalizations in Toronto. Stroke 30, 185 186.
36. Williams S. (1998) Quality and care: patients' perceptions. Journal of Nursing Care Quality 12, 18 25.