According to this study: Use of antipsychotics in patients with dementia is associated with an increased risk of a wide range of serious adverse outcomes, particularly soon after the initiation of treatment.Antipsychotics are associated with a wider range of risks than previously known, and any potential benefits must be weighed against the risk of serious harm.
Background: An ED admission and hospitalization are scary experiences for anyone, and potentially more so for nurses. Yet there is scant information about nurses as patients in the nursing research literature. This likely reflects a general tendency among researchers to study the needs of patients but not those of nurses.
Objective: This qualitative phenomenological study sought to explore the lived experiences of nurses who were admitted as patients to a hospital directly from an ED.
Methods: A sample of nurse patients 21 years of age and older and including various genders, nursing specialties, and diagnoses were recruited using maximum variation purposive sampling. A semistructured interview guide was created, and data were collected through individual interviews conducted either face-to-face or via telephone. Data were coded manually, and thematic analysis was conducted using Dedoose software.
Results: The analysis revealed that many participants had experienced tremendous undue stress during their hospitalization. Four themes were identified: to tell or not to tell, pulling the nurse card, taking one's care into one's own hands, and having to make medical decisions while sick.
Conclusions: The study findings indicate that nurses who are hospitalized have different needs than do hospitalized individuals in the lay population. The findings inform our recommendations, which health care organizations, nurse educators, and nurse leaders can use to promote smoother, more compassionate care for nurse patients. Staff nurses can use them to better prepare themselves for caring for a nurse patient-or becoming one. The study findings can also serve to guide future research.
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