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What scares patients about the hospital
1Department of Nursing, Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN.
The Health Care Supervisor
|August 6, 1994
Abstract:
Hospitalization usually disrupts a person's privacy, autonomy, life style, roles, and finances. This article discusses the anxieties a patient can experience related to future uncertainties, insufficient information, fear of personal incompetence, being exposed to hospital rumors, and anticipated pain. Interventions to reduce patient anxiety are suggested.