Lucia Natalizi, Catia Genna, Kiara Ros Thekkan, Linda Lombi, Immacolata Dall'Oglio, Carmen D'Amore, Valentina Di Gravio, Miriam De Rinaldis, Simona Calza, Emanuela Tiozzo, Massimiliano Raponi, Orsola Gawronski
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Abstract
Aim: To explore the phenomenon of nurse-patient's illness experience.
Design: A multicentre phenomenological qualitative study was conducted in Italy.
Methods: A convenience sample of nurses with an acute illness experience, requiring at least one hospitalisation of ≥ 3 days, was enrolled. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. Data were transcribed verbatim and analysed according to Giorgi's descriptive method. Ethics committee approval was obtained for this study. The COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative research checklist guided the study reporting.
Results: Eleven interviews were conducted from August 2022 to July 2023. The essential structure 'being on the other side of the fence' and six common themes, 'role reversal', 'expanded awareness', 'professional identity', 'emotional swing', 'having experienced it on their own skin' and 'reframing the healthcare context', were identified. Nurses' awareness of the healthcare system and pathways related to their professional background at the onset of their illness experience turns into an expanded awareness of the illness experience in itself, having it 'lived on their own skin'. When nurses return from the 'other side of the fence' to their professional role this new awareness triggers a more compassionate and cognizant relationship with patients and colleagues.
Conclusion: This study highlights the lived experience of nurses who became patients, showing characterising elements of 'being on the other side of the fence' and the potential of this experience for expanding nurses' awareness of other patients' experiences under their care.
Implications for the profession and/or patient care: Nurse-patients' illness experience may be instrumental to reinforce nurses' awareness, empathy and any positive attitude or practice devised to improve patient's illness experiences and patient centred care in hospitals.
Patient or public contribution: Nurses participated as interview respondents.
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The Journal of Clinical Nursing (JCN) is an international, peer reviewed, scientific journal that seeks to promote the development and exchange of knowledge that is directly relevant to all spheres of nursing practice. The primary aim is to promote a high standard of clinically related scholarship which advances and supports the practice and discipline of nursing. The Journal also aims to promote the international exchange of ideas and experience that draws from the different cultures in which practice takes place. Further, JCN seeks to enrich insight into clinical need and the implications for nursing intervention and models of service delivery. Emphasis is placed on promoting critical debate on the art and science of nursing practice.
JCN is essential reading for anyone involved in nursing practice, whether clinicians, researchers, educators, managers, policy makers, or students. The development of clinical practice and the changing patterns of inter-professional working are also central to JCN''s scope of interest. Contributions are welcomed from other health professionals on issues that have a direct impact on nursing practice.
We publish high quality papers from across the methodological spectrum that make an important and novel contribution to the field of clinical nursing (regardless of where care is provided), and which demonstrate clinical application and international relevance.
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