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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-7-8
pubmed:abstractText
The purpose of this article is to explicate patterns of comforting that assist the seriously injured patient to endure the pain of injury and subsequent treatments and to remain controlled. The care provided to 67 trauma patients in two trauma centers was videotaped and analyzed using observational methods and linguistic analysis. During painful procedures, when patients exhibited extreme distress, one nurse usually assumed the role of comforter. The nurses used a patterned mode of speech ("comfort talk"), touch, and distinctive posturing behaviors that enabled the patient to endure the agony and maintain control. In this article, the authors describe the comfort work of nursing in emerging situations, further develop the Comfort Talk Register, and describe the concomitant behaviors that facilitate patient endurance. They suggest that the comfort work of nurses in this situation enables patients to endure and reduces shock and posttraumatic stress following trauma care.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
N
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
1054-7738
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
250-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Adaptation, Psychological, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Child, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Communication, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Emergency Nursing, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Empathy, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Internal-External Control, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Male, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Multiple Trauma, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Nurse-Patient Relations, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Nursing Methodology Research, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Nursing Staff, Hospital, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Pain, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Patient Education as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Physical Endurance, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Posture, pubmed-meshheading:9830925-Social Support
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Maintaining patient endurance. The comfort work of trauma nurses.
pubmed:affiliation
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.