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- Challenging patient encounters threaten the quality of life of those involved and are likely to lead to responses that negatively impact patient care. As nurses, we can promote positive interactions by empathizing with patients, all of whom are managing more in life than their current symptoms or diagnosis.
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The pressure is on nurses to provide high quality, complex patient care within the context of scarcer resources in terms of staffing, infrastructure or financial reward (Burmeister et al., 2019), even in the context of major challenges such as those presented by a pandemic.
May 8, 2024 · Interacting with difficult patients and their families is a common challenge faced by nurses. In this article, we will discuss the importance of maintaining professional boundaries and provide tips on how to avoid becoming emotionally overwhelmed.
Jun 17, 2020 · For some nurses, providing altruistic care to difficult patients is a challenge, leading to the use of negative coping strategies such as anger or avoidance, leaving the nurse frustrated and patients feeling rejected. Yet other nurses can deal positively with difficult patients.
- Sylvia Kubsch, Brenda Tyczkowski, Cheryl Passel, Cheryl Passel
- 2021
Apr 11, 2019 · Ethically difficult situations are evident across settings and in very diverse environments from neonatal care to caring for the older people.
- Anita Haahr, Annelise Norlyk, Bente Martinsen, Pia Dreyer, Pia Dreyer
- 2020
Sep 1, 2023 · This scoping review highlighted seven key themes as follows: (1) the challenges for nurse-patients and caregivers; (2) role ambiguity when a nurse becomes a patient; (3) the need for personalized care to consider the nurse's professional experience; (4) the requirement to not make assumptions about the registered nurse's knowledge; (5) loss of ...
Jul 31, 2013 · Difficult interactions with patients can take up a disproportionate amount of a doctor’s time, resources, and emotional energy. They can cause the doctor to feel stress, anxiety, anger, and helplessness, and can even lead to a dislike of the patient and the use of avoidance strategies.
Mar 26, 2020 · It is important not to label patients, relatives and staff as ‘difficult’, but it is important to recognise and acknowledge that not all nurse–patient interactions are wonderful and life enhancing.
