Patients’ experiences of emotional support provided by the health professionals while waiting for a cardiovascular operation
Akhmejanova, Zeinat (2019)
Akhmejanova, Zeinat
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019081417822
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Background: It is a well-known fact that patients who are waiting for a heart surgery
operation experience fear and anxiety, which raises the number of postoperative
complications and also increases the postoperative pain.
Objective: To describe the experience of the emotional support provided by the health
professionals while waiting for the cardiovascular operation in one private hospital in
Kazakhstan.
Method: A qualitative approach was used with semi-structured interviews. Nineteen
cardiac surgery patients were interviewed. An inductive content analysis was applied to
capture their experiences. Patients were recruited from a private hospital in Kazakhstan.
Results: The data analysis identified four main categories: 1) Patient felt satisfied with the
preoperative preparation, 2) Patient felt insufficient emotional support, 3) Firm believe in
the staff’s competence, and 4) Patient’s supporting from various sources.
Conclusions: The results of this study can be used to train cardiac nurses to develop their
knowledge and skills concerning how to give emotional support to patients. It is also
possible to develop a set of questions for the nurses to help them assess the individual
emotional state of each patient.
The next step of this thesis is to plan how to implement these results for nursing personnel working in similar units.
operation experience fear and anxiety, which raises the number of postoperative
complications and also increases the postoperative pain.
Objective: To describe the experience of the emotional support provided by the health
professionals while waiting for the cardiovascular operation in one private hospital in
Kazakhstan.
Method: A qualitative approach was used with semi-structured interviews. Nineteen
cardiac surgery patients were interviewed. An inductive content analysis was applied to
capture their experiences. Patients were recruited from a private hospital in Kazakhstan.
Results: The data analysis identified four main categories: 1) Patient felt satisfied with the
preoperative preparation, 2) Patient felt insufficient emotional support, 3) Firm believe in
the staff’s competence, and 4) Patient’s supporting from various sources.
Conclusions: The results of this study can be used to train cardiac nurses to develop their
knowledge and skills concerning how to give emotional support to patients. It is also
possible to develop a set of questions for the nurses to help them assess the individual
emotional state of each patient.
The next step of this thesis is to plan how to implement these results for nursing personnel working in similar units.