What makes it difficult for patients to ask for help in hospital?

Hope, Joanna and Saville, Christina (2023) What makes it difficult for patients to ask for help in hospital? Nursing Times, 119 (2).

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Failures in fundamental care of patients in hospital can have serious consequences, including patients dying unnecessarily. NHS policy and nursing theory emphasise shared decision making by staff and patients, but do not consider what it is that prevents nurses from providing care as they would wish to, or the difficulties patients can face in alerting staff to missed care. This article summarises research into patients’ experiences of involvement in fundamental care decisions in hospitals, including whether they raised missed care with staff and, if not, why not.

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Published date: 12 January 2023

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Local EPrints ID: 477340

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/477340

ISSN: 0954-7762

PURE UUID: 43fd416a-760d-410e-9889-8b10e25a0e41

ORCID for Joanna Hope:

orcid.org/0000-0002-8939-7045

ORCID for Christina Saville:

orcid.org/0000-0001-7718-5689

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Date deposited: 05 Jun 2023 16:38

Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:46

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Author: Joanna Hope

Author: Christina Saville

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