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Making them more vulnerable : nursing insights on the irony of using questionnaires

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posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by Pamela Mcgrath, Emma Phillips
TOPIC .Nursing insights on the experience of using standardized questionnaires during hospice care .PURPOSE.To explore and describe the experience of hospice staff using questionnaires on hospice clients: whether such instruments help or hinder the holistic, compassionate hospice practice and to set this topic on the research agenda in the hope of generating critical reflection on this important aspect of hospice care. SOURCES. A cross-section of hospice staf finterviewed about their experience with administering the questionnaires. (Findings from research conducted with hospice clients on their experience of questionnaires are published separately.) CONCLUSIONS.The initial findings indicate that staff perceive questionnaires as negatively impacting on their efforts to engage in holistic and compassionate hospice practice and point to a major irony that questionnaires, designed for the supportive care of the vulnerable, actually make the vulnerable more vulnerable.

Funding

Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)

History

Volume

42

Issue

2

Start Page

64

End Page

73

Number of Pages

10

eISSN

1744-6198

ISSN

0029-6473

Location

CA, USA

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Language

en-aus

Peer Reviewed

  • Yes

Open Access

  • No

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Journal

Nursing forum.