Basic Nursing 1st Edition by Judith Wilkinson, Leslie Treas

Exercise 8

Jones, A. (2007). Admitting hospital patients: A qualitative study of an everyday nursing task. Nursing Inquiry, 14(3), 212-223.
This qualitative study explored the everyday work of hospital nurses. It examined the initial assessment of patients being admitted to the hospital to compare what the nursing literature says about assessment with the assessments the researcher observed in practice. The literature clearly states assessments should be patient centered and that they are the important first step to a therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. The researcher concluded that the actual nursing admission assessments were at odds with recommendations in the literature. The nurses used a routinized, bureaucratic approach to assessment as a means of doing the work faster.
Which of the following inferences can you make? State whether the study summary provides extensive, limited, or no evidence to support each inference.
1. These results occurred because the nurses used a printed form created by the hospital.
2. The nurses did not care about their patients.
3. The nurses were feeling pressured by their workload.
4. The nurses did not know how important the initial assessment is.
5. Nursing practice is not always done according to the literature.