Good Relations between Nurses and Patients: Spreading the Wings of Imagination, Protecting Patients’ Souls - Open Journal of Nursing

OJN > Vol.8 No.4, April 2018

Good Relations between Nurses and Patients: Spreading the Wings of Imagination, Protecting Patients’ Souls ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojn.2018.84021 1,105 Downloads 2,944 Views

Author(s)

Mayumi Uno¹, Yukari Katayama²

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Nursing Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
²Faculty of Nursing, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto, Japan.

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.

KEYWORDS

Nurse-Patient Relations, Veteran Nurses, Nursing Practice, Sensitivity, Interview

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Uno, M. and Katayama, Y. (2018) Good Relations between Nurses and Patients: Spreading the Wings of Imagination, Protecting Patients’ Souls. Open Journal of Nursing, 8, 248-256. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2018.84021.

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