Abstract

The descriptive survey was the method used to conduct the study to find differences in the amount of nurse contact between the isolated patient's and the non-isolated patient's hospital experience, and to explore their feelings concerning their hospitalization. Ten patients, on the surgical units of three hospitals, were included in the study. Five of the patients were isolated because of an infectious disease and comprised Group I. Five patients who were not isolated served as a control and comprised Group II. Data were collected in two main categories: (1) the amount of nurse-patient contact, type of personnel visiting the patient, the number of contacts per day, and the amount of nursing time spent with the patient; and (2) the patient's expression of his feelings concerning his hospital experience, with analysis of his expressions of satisfaction with the care that he was receiving and his expressions of loneliness and boredom. The over-all finding indicated that the isolated patients were receiving more nursing time, but less visits per day than the non-isolated patients. The isolated patients expressed feelings of loneliness and boredom which the non-isolated patients did not, but the non-isolated patients tended to be more demanding in their nursing care than the isolated group. The non-isolated patients complained about such things as food and the house keeping on the unit. The auxiliary personnel spent more time with, and made more visits to, the patients than any other type of nurse, except for the student nurses. It appears that when the nurses do not identify themselves according to position when visiting the patients one-half of the patients in both groups did not think that the nurse in charge visited them, when in reality she did. Limited sampling, economic and educational background and sex differences between the two groups probably influenced the findings of this study.

LLU Discipline

Nursing

Department

Nursing

School

Graduate School

First Advisor

Matilda Anabelle Mills

Second Advisor

Betty Rutledge Stirling

Third Advisor

Charleene W. Riffel

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Degree Level

M.S.

Year Degree Awarded

1965

Date (Title Page)

8-1965

Language

English

Library of Congress/MESH Subject Headings

Hospitalization; Patient Isolation

Type

Thesis

Page Count

vii; 64

Digital Format

PDF

Digital Publisher

Loma Linda University Libraries

Usage Rights

This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Collection

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collection Website

http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/

Repository

Loma Linda University. Del E. Webb Memorial Library. University Archives

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