The ICU patient room: Views and meanings as experienced by the next of kin: A phenomenological hermeneutical study

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 176-184

  Olausson, Sepideh ^a   Ekebergh, Margaretha ^a   Lindahl, Berit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Family; Hospital design; Intensive care units; Patient room; Qualitative studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; EDUCATION; FAMILY RELATION; FURNITURE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIFE EVENT; MANPOWER; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHILOSOPHY; PRIVACY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STANDARD; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; FAMILY RELATIONS; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PATIENTS' ROOMS; PRIVACY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84860889197     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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