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  • “Recognizing rapport”: Health professionals’ lived experience of caring for patients under transmission-based precautions in an Australian health care setting

    Author(s)
    Godsell, Mary-Rose
    Shaban, Ramon Z
    Gamble, Jenny
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Gamble, Jenny A.
    Shaban, Ramon Z.
    Year published
    2013
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    Background Preventing health care-associated infections is essential to the safety and quality of health care. Although patients' experience of care under isolation is well established, little is known of health care workers' experiences when providing such care. This study explored the health professionals; lived experience of caring for patients under transmission-based precautions. Methods Interpretive phenomenology was used to examine 12 health care professionals' lived experience of providing care under transmission-based precautions in 3 health care facilities in Australia. Data were obtained from in-depth interviews ...
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    Background Preventing health care-associated infections is essential to the safety and quality of health care. Although patients' experience of care under isolation is well established, little is known of health care workers' experiences when providing such care. This study explored the health professionals; lived experience of caring for patients under transmission-based precautions. Methods Interpretive phenomenology was used to examine 12 health care professionals' lived experience of providing care under transmission-based precautions in 3 health care facilities in Australia. Data were obtained from in-depth interviews and observations of health professionals. Findings The essential phenomena of "recognizing rapport" represented the health professionals' lived experience. Three themes emerged starting with (1) relationships with others, their rapport and communication with patients, patients' families and visitors, and colleagues. These relationships are influenced by (2) barriers to practice, such as personal level of comfort when wearing personal protective equipment, physical limitations of the environment, and management of workload and resources. Such barriers influence (3) patient outcomes, namely the quality of the care provided and adverse events. Conclusion In the context of caring for patients under transmission-based precautions, the relationships between health professionals and their patients are critical to the quality and safety of health care with respect to infection prevention and control.
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    Journal Title
    American Journal of Infection Control
    Volume
    41
    Issue
    11
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2013.05.022
    Subject
    Nursing
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/57611
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