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Abstract
This article documents inpatient work, including activities, number of nurses, shift changes and other staff encounters for the first time. In 2022, the researcher (patient) had a traumatic limb injury and began three 6–8 day stays in three different hospitals. Nursing care was provided by 37 different nurses and 23 certified nursing assistants in 50 different shifts over 21 days. There were 35 other unique encounters by other medical care staff. As an experienced qualitative researcher, the patient relied on field observation skills. Thirty-eight distinct inpatient activities were grouped into five general categories: Logistics, Arrangements, Self-care, Healing and Social Management. This article reveals that patients inside the hospital actively engage in various tasks to navigate and manage their health-related goals. These responsibilities may be overwhelming for the patient, who is without resources to solve their own problems.
Patient Contribution
This paper is 100% from the patient's perspective and their original contribution.
期刊介绍：
Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in health and social care, health policy and health services research including:
• Person-centred care and quality improvement
• Patients'' participation in decisions about disease prevention and management
• Public perceptions of health services
• Citizen involvement in health care policy making and priority-setting
• Methods for monitoring and evaluating participation
• Empowerment and consumerism
• Patients'' role in safety and quality
• Patient and public role in health services research
• Co-production (researchers working with patients and the public) of research, health care and policy
Health Expectations is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries. It includes papers which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyse and evaluate specific policies and practices. The Journal provides an inter-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers (including PPIE researchers) from a range of backgrounds and expertise can present their work to other researchers, policy-makers, health care professionals, managers, patients and consumer advocates.
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