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Coronary care patients' and nurses' perceptions of important nurse caring behaviors
1University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
Heart & Lung : the Journal of Critical Care
|November 1, 1992
Abstract
Objective:
To examine the relationship of patient-perceived and nurse-perceived caring behaviors.
Design:
Descriptive.
Setting:
Three not-for-profit hospitals in a large metropolitan western city.
Subjects:
Thirty coronary care patients and 30 coronary care nurses.
Method:
Larson's nurse caring behaviors (CARE-Q) were rank ordered by the Q-sort method.
Results:
The patient's study group perceived behaviors that involved technology as most important, which differed from nurses, who perceived listening as the most important caring behavior.
Conclusions:
This study supports the findings of other researchers that patients' and nurses' perceptions of important nurse caring behaviors are divergent.