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Ingalill Rahm Hallberg

Ingalill Rahm Hallberg

Professor emerita

Ingalill Rahm Hallberg

Cooperation during morning care between nurses and severely demented institutionalized patients.

Author

  • Ingalill Rahm Hallberg
  • Göran Holst
  • Åsa Nordmark
  • Anna-Karin Edberg

Summary, in English

Nurse-patient cooperation during morning care in two wards for the care of severely demented patients (107 observations) were analyzed by using a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach. Nurse-patient cooperation was found to be characterized by their acting in mutuality or unilaterality and in or out of pace with each other. When acting in pace and mutuality, the nurse and patient turned to each other as persons as well as to the task. This theme related to confirming nurse actions and actions that provided opportunities for the patient to participate. When acting out of pace and unilaterality, cooperation was mainly task oriented and related to acts of resistance, the use of force, loss of attention or turning to others, or the patient wanted to escape. The findings were interpreted within the contexts of power, empowerment and powerlessness and may serve as indicators of low- or high-quality nurse-patient cooperation during morning care provided for demented patients.

Department/s

  • Department of Health Sciences
  • Family Medicine and Community Medicine

Publishing year

1995

Language

English

Pages

78-104

Publication/Series

Clinical Nursing Research

Volume

4

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Nursing

Status

Published

Research group

  • Family Medicine and Community Medicine

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1054-7738