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Touch: a nursing strategy in the intensive care unit.

C A Estabrooks1

  • 1University Hospital-Shaughnessy Site, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Heart & Lung : the Journal of Critical Care
|July 1, 1989
PubMed
Summary

Intensive care nurses use touch as a multipurpose strategy. Understanding touch requires knowledge of its structure, context, and norms, which vary among nurses.

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Qualitative Research
  • Patient Care

Background:

  • Touch is a fundamental aspect of nursing care.
  • The specific nature and meaning of touch in intensive care settings require further exploration.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine touch from the perspective of intensive care (ICU) nurses.
  • To identify distinct kinds of touch and normative patterns of touch among ICU nurses.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study utilizing in-depth interviews.
  • Participant observation with eight experienced ICU nurses.

Main Results:

  • Three distinct kinds of touch were identified.
  • Normative patterns of touch among ICU nurses were elucidated.
  • Touch functions as a multipurpose nursing strategy in the ICU.

Conclusions:

  • Understanding touch in the ICU necessitates knowledge of its structural components and contextual variables.
  • Further research is needed to explore the diverse meanings of therapeutic and nontherapeutic touch for both nurses and patients.

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