HOSPITAL MEALS : Inpatient’s experiences about having meals in hospital
Jiang, Mengting; Abiola, Omolara (2012)
Kemi-Tornion ammattikorkeakoulu Lapin ammattikorkeakoulu
2012
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2012112115829
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2012112115829
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Having meals in hospital is a vital part of nursing care for hospitalized patients besides other medical treatments. The inpatient’s opinions about having meal in hospital should be put into consideration.
The purpose of our research was to find out and present inpatients’ points of view about having meals in the hospital during their stay. The main goal of this research was to help nurses and other hospital staff to be aware of how the inpatients feel while eating food, during mealtimes and the results can help improve their services if needed to make inpatients feel better when eating in hospital.
Questionnaire was used as our data collection method for this research. The questionnaires were sent to sixty inpatients in medical, surgical and gynecological units of Kemi City Central Hospital and fifty copies were collected back. Microsoft Excel and SPSS programme were used as a descriptive statistics technique to analyse the data, which are presented in charts.
Our research study shows that majority of the inpatients were satisfied about eating meals in hospital. Quite a few patients complained that breakfast and lunch were delivered too late. Majority of the patients did not need feeding assistance, but some patients from surgical unit needed assistance. On the other hand, environmental factors, such as smell of feces and loud sound from televisions affected patients’ mood while eating. Nurses delivering tablets, IV medications and taken blood samples during meals time interrupted the patients most often.
Conclusively the inpatients’ expectation about meal amount, time to deliver meal, assistance from nurses and environment for eating are generally satisfied, however interruption from nursing staff could be avoided to create a clean and peaceful environment for them to eat.
The purpose of our research was to find out and present inpatients’ points of view about having meals in the hospital during their stay. The main goal of this research was to help nurses and other hospital staff to be aware of how the inpatients feel while eating food, during mealtimes and the results can help improve their services if needed to make inpatients feel better when eating in hospital.
Questionnaire was used as our data collection method for this research. The questionnaires were sent to sixty inpatients in medical, surgical and gynecological units of Kemi City Central Hospital and fifty copies were collected back. Microsoft Excel and SPSS programme were used as a descriptive statistics technique to analyse the data, which are presented in charts.
Our research study shows that majority of the inpatients were satisfied about eating meals in hospital. Quite a few patients complained that breakfast and lunch were delivered too late. Majority of the patients did not need feeding assistance, but some patients from surgical unit needed assistance. On the other hand, environmental factors, such as smell of feces and loud sound from televisions affected patients’ mood while eating. Nurses delivering tablets, IV medications and taken blood samples during meals time interrupted the patients most often.
Conclusively the inpatients’ expectation about meal amount, time to deliver meal, assistance from nurses and environment for eating are generally satisfied, however interruption from nursing staff could be avoided to create a clean and peaceful environment for them to eat.