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Lara Gurney1, Maura MacPhee2, A Fuchsia Howard2
1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Objectives:
Our study objective was to explore nurses' experiences of how the Patient Stories Project, an intervention consisting of garnering and sharing ICU survivor stories with the ICU team, influenced their perceptions of the value of their work and their nurse-patient relationships.
Design:
This was a qualitative descriptive case study that used thematic analysis.
Setting:
This study was conducted in a single, 34-bed adult ICU in a Canadian tertiary care teaching hospital, serving a mixed medical and surgical patient population and employing over 200 nurses.
Subjects:
Semistructured focus groups with 12 ICU nurses were conducted between June 2019 and July 2019.
Intervention:
The Patient Stories Project is a systematic process for collecting and sharing former patients' stories. On a regular basis, former ICU patients return to the ICU to say, "thank you," share their experiences, and tell their stories to staff.
Measurements And Main Results:
Storytelling through the Patient Stories Project gives meaning to nurses' work and provides avenues for nurses to think about their work more positively. Key themes were as follows: 1) perspective taking, 2) emphasizing the value in caring, 3) providing positive closure, 4) engendering team belonging, and 5) building a sense of hope.
Conclusions:
This study addresses the Critical Care Societies Collaboratives "call to action" to create a healthy work environment. Nurse focus group participants articulated how an initiative such as the Patient Stories Project may augment the relational aspects of work that are important to nurses, as well as their patients and families. Our study results have implications for the importance of using storytelling as a relational strategy to protect against depersonalization and cynicism, elements of burnout.
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