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Role of Patients Participation and Care Delivered.

Raul Rodriguez.

Florida National University.

June 10th, 2017.

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Patients are always considered to be those who have no role to play in delivering a better

healthcare. They are considered to be those people who are in need and have little to offer in

terms of ensuring that the get better. However, overtime, research has been done to show that

patients participation in the whole process of nursing care is very important. There are various

nursing theories that have been developed to support the role of patients’ participation in whole

care delivered. This phase of the project will tackle certain four main issues with regards to the

final project. One of the things that the paper will cover is the literature review where various

article will be highlighted with regards to the issue of patients’ participation. Methodology and

design of the study will also be covered into detail. The paper will also cover sampling

methodology and lastly the necessary tools that will be required to ensure the project is a

success.

Literature Review

Catherine Rustad in her article points that patients’ participation in nursing care is one

that has to be aided by the nurses (Rustad, 2015). This is because nurses interact with patients

frequently as compared to any other person. She also notes that patients’ participation has not

been that successful because most nurses in carrying out their duties act as barriers thus makes it

had for patients’ participation to be achieved. In the article, it is proposed that to help such

patients’ participation to be successful, the views of the nurses should be sought so that the best

way to achieve such participation is found. This project however, will not dwell so much into the

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logistical issues that surrounds the issues of patients’ participation but will discuss the various

ways in which patient’s participation can be achieved.

Georgia Tobiano and Andrea Marshall in their article identifies that patient participation

is one of the ways that patients can be engaged in the nursing care process (Tobiano & Marshall,

2015). In this article, the main objective is to investigate patients’ and nurses’ perceptions

towards the issue of patient participation. This include behaviors of various stakeholders towards

the idea and practice of patient participation. Tobiano and Marshall believes that there is a delink

between patients and nurses with regards to the issue of patients’ participation. This article is

trying to justify the ideas in Catherine Rustad’s article that argues that there are barriers that have

been created by nurses with regards to allowing patients take part in nursing.

Tracey Bucknail and Jessica Guinane in their article seeks some of the nurses’ views with

regards to the issue of patient participation in the nursing care (Bucknail & Guinane, 2015). They

argue that the researched was informed by the fact that nurses have frequent contact with patients

that anybody else in the healthcare systems. This means that nurses are among the few

stakeholders that are key to the ensuring that patient participation is achieved. Bucknail and

Guinane have hope that getting the views of the nurses will assist in developing strategies that

will encourage participation of patients in hospitals and in particular in nursing care. The

approach that the project will give to the issue of patient participation is almost similar to this

that was used in the article will a few changes being made to ensure that this project is better

than previous ones on the same issue.

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Sarah Collins and Nicky Britten in their books in trying to provide answers to some of the

issues that surrounds patients participation in healthcare (Collins & Britten, 2007). These

answers are provided through exploring the connections that exists between theory, research and

practices. This draws different disciplinary perspectives in the health and social sciences and

makes comparisons between the different healthcare settings. The project will in analyzing some

of the results of the research will use some of the theories, other research and practices similar to

those used in the books to be able to make certain conclusion about the whole issue of patient

participation in the nursing care.

Johanna Ruusuvuari and Andrew Thompson in their article points out that patient

participation has gained prominence with the healthcare system (Ruusuvuari & Thompson,

2000). It is seen through policy making that patient participation has taken priority. Because of

the priority that has been given to the issue of patient participation, these two authors believe that

there is more that has to be done apart from the policy making. In particular, the authors provide

that all that is needed is civic education about the importance of patients’ taking part in the

nursing care process as opposed to leaving most of the activities to the nurses and other

healthcare personnel.

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Methodology and Design of the Study

There are various methods that will be used to accomplish the objectives of the research.

One of the methodologies will be through reading various literature materials that talks about the

issue of patient participation and care delivered. There are various literature materials that have

been written about the topic of patient participation that includes journals and books among

reports as evidenced by the brief literature review conducted in the paper. These literature

materials will then be subjected to analysis to take into consideration the aim of the objective that

is making a determination whether patient participation can be achieved for the betterment of the

nursing care process and improving the healthcare in general.

Apart from reading and analyzing the literature materials, there will be a research that

will be conducted to help ensure the conclusion and recommendations that the project will give

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will be both valid and sound. The research will be conducted in healthcare institutions that will

be selected within a given location. The research will be about trying to get the different opinions

of nurses about the whole idea of patient participation. This is because they have been accused in

many occasions to be part of the group that is sabotaging the concept of patient participation

through certain barriers that they are said to have created within the nursing care process.

Apart from seeking the views of nurses, various medical staff or scholars in the field of

nursing will be interviewed to provided more information about the whole idea of patient

participation. This is because there seem to be very little information about this new concept,

which seem to have so many benefits with it if implemented. The aim of the interviews is help

provided an academic perspective of the concept and compare it with the practical answers that

will be given through interviews with the nurses. This means that there will be a comparative

analysis about some of the information that will be provided by the different categories of people

within the research such as nurses and other medical officers such as doctors.

A comparative analysis will also be done about different countries where implementation

of the patient participation has been done very well compared to some other country that has

worst performance with regards to implementation of patient participation. This will help get the

difference in things like policy between the two countries. The comparison will help know what

to borrow from countries that have been practicing this concept of patient participation and what

things not to borrow about such countries way of handling the issue.

Sampling Methodology

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There are two sampling methods that are used during a research that requires such

sampling for the research to continue. One of the type of such sampling methods is the

probability sampling where each member of a given population that is part of a research has the

probability of being selected to take part of the research. This include random sampling,

systematic sampling and stratifies sampling among many others. The other type of sampling

methods is non-probable sampling. This is where certain members of the population are left out

on the probability of being selected to take part of a research due to certain specific requirements

that are needed for the research.

Since innovative research design will be used in finding a cure for a contagious disease,

the sampling method that will be used is probable sampling where each member of the

population that will be selected can be chosen to take part in the research. This will make it easy

to calculate the margin of error. This is to show the degree of difference that the results of s

research can differ with the actual real world. In particular, random sampling will be the

sampling methodology that will be used as various people will be chosen to represent a sample

of the population in a random manner.

Necessary tools

In the project, there are certain tools that will be necessary to ensure that the project is a

success. One of the tools will be various equipment that will be used during the project such as

paper for doing some questionnaires. Various people that will help in aiding the project will also

form part of the necessary tools to be used in the research. The various devices that will be used

in the project for example computers that will be used in doing the data analysis to enable the

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project to come up with a conclusion that will be able to generate a solution to the problem that

the research in particular is trying to solve.

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References

Bucknail, T., & Guinane, J. (2015). Nurses' views of patient participation in nursing care.

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 23-47.

Collins, S., & Britten, N. (2007). Pateint Participation in Health Care Constultations. London:

Mc Graw Hill Education.

Rustad, C. (2015). Nurses' views of patent participation in nursing care. New York: Research

Gate.

Ruusuvuari, J., & Thompson, A. (2000). Understanding the process of patient participation.

New York: Routledge.

Tobiano, G., & Marshall, A. (2015). Patient participation in nursing care on medical wards: An

intergrative review. Interational Journal of Nursing Studies, 1-24.